AP Poll: 89% optimistic about what '07 will bring for their families

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An AP-AOL News Poll finds that while most Americans said 2006 was a bad year for the country, three-fourths thought it had been a good one for them and their families.

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Seventy-two percent of Americans feel good about what 2007 will bring for the country, and an even larger 89% are optimistic about the new year for themselves and their families, according to the poll.

That fits with a long-term trend suggesting that Americans are generally an optimistic lot.

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Democrats were more likely than Republicans to have a negative view of the past year, and were less likely to feel optimistic looking forward.

The AP-AOL News poll of 1,000 adults was conducted by telephone from Dec. 12-14 by Ipsos, an international public opinion research company. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-1...mism-2007_x.htm