POLL: 50% of Americans have negative impression of last decade, only 27% have a positive impression.

[jefferson_dem]

2-to-1 - New Year's Resolution: Find a Better Decade

Americans may not know what to call the last ten years (The aughts? The '00s? The noughties?), but as the public gathers at parties to watch the ball drop on 2009 many will not be sad to see the last decade go, whatever it may be called. By roughly a two-to-one margin Americans have an unfavorable view of the 2000s. Fully half the country has a generally negative impression of the last decade, while only 27% have a generally positive impression. This is in sharp contrast to how previous decades are viewed today. Majorities have generally positive impressions of the '90s and '80s, and a 40%-plurality say the '70s were a good decade. Possibly the passage of time has helped previous decades in the minds of Americans, but based on what the public is saying today about the 2000s it may be a while before we look back fondly on the last 10 years. When asked to give a word or phrase to characterize the past decade, the most common response was "downhill." Other less-than-inspiring words for the past 10 years include poor, decline, chaotic, disaster, scary, and depressing.



http://pewresearch.org/databank/dailynumber/?NumberID=921

[Gman]

1. The 30% again

what a strange reality they live in.

[johnaries]

12. Yep. The "backwash".

[LearnedHand]

2. Wow. Very interesting graphics

Thanks for posting. I'm glad to know that we on DU are not alone in feeling the 2000s were a disaster.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Well the 80s had an unfair advantage to make up for Reagan.

[chelsea0011]

4. Wow. Who thinks the last decade in a positive note?

[freddie mertz]

5. 27 % are either blind, stupid, or insane. nt.

[Lilyeye]

10. or Repukes who thought Bush was the best President since Reagan.

:puke:

[Armstead]

6. Only 50 percent negative? I've been through five and a half decades and the 00's were the worst ever

[denem]

11. We've got a word for that decade now, The Zeros.

[Gman2]

7. It suffered the malaise of no cold war. That vacuum hurt. We dont like no war.

It is undemocratic. Or at least not as profitable.

[WhiteTara]

8. that same 27%

I wonder where they were living.

[Phx_Dem]

9. The Decade of Bush = epic fail. n/t