Voters diverge on how U.S has changed and where it's headed Compared with 50 years today ago, life for people Americans will be compared with life today
Our August survey revealed a wide gulf in how Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton supporters viewed the country. It found Donald Trump supporters overwhelmingly believed that life in America is worse than it was 50 years ago “for people like them,” while most Hillary Clinton supporters took the opposite view, saying life for people like them has gotten better over the past half-century. The candidates’ supporters also differed in their expectations for the nation’s future. Trump backers were broadly pessimistic, while Clinton supporters had mixed assessments.
Voters diverge on how U.S has changed and where it's headed  | Compared with 50 years today ago, life for people  | The future of the next generation of  | like yoy in America today is  | Americans will be compared with life today  | Better  | Same  | Worse  | Same  | Worse  | Better  | All voters  | All voters  | 47 %  | 36%  | 13%  | 49%  | 24%  | 22%  | Clinton supporters  | 59  | Clinton sup porters  | 19  | 18  | 30  | 38  | 28  | Trump supporters 81  | Trump supporters  | 11  | 15  | 6  | 68  | 11  | Notes: Based on registered voters.  | Don + know responses not shown. Q7 & Q8,  | Source: Survey conducted August 916, 2016  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 