October 22, 2008	Wednesday	Shawwal 22, 1429

WASHINGTON: Three in four Americans say things are going badly in the country and they are angry about it, according to a poll released on Tuesday by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation.

Seventy-five per cent of those polled between Oct 17 and 19 said things were going either pretty badly or fairly badly. Thirty-five per cent said they were very angry, and 40 per cent said they were somewhat angry.

Tuesday’s results were down slightly compared to the same poll taken Oct 3-5, which found that 80 per cent of respondents believed things were going badly in the country.

However, the numbers were a sharp increase from the same time a year ago when 49 per cent felt that way.

Asked if they were scared about the way things are going in America, 24 per cent said “very scared” and 43 per cent said “somewhat scared.”

The survey had a margin of error of about three percentage points in either direction.

Answers were culled from 1,058 adult Americans via phone interviews, and the sample also included 983 interviews with registered voters and 746 interviews with likely voters.—AFP