Sorry Trump, but Most Americans Agree: Life Has Improved Under Obama

Donald Trump may have risen to the top of the Republican Party with scaremongering tactics and the promise to "Make America Great Again," but that doesn't mean most Americans share the GOP nominee's dystopian view that the country is in desperate shape. According to a new Gallup poll released this week that measures the well-being of Americans, most people across all racial and ethnic groups actually believe the opposite: They say their lives have largely improved under President Barack Obama.

"The percentage of US whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians who are thriving have all increased during the Obama era," Gallup reported.

The poll asked participants to register whether they believed they were "thriving, struggling, or suffering" and found that 55.4 percent of Americans considered themselves to be "thriving"—the highest percentage recorded by Gallup since it started measuring this evaluation nine years ago.
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