FOXNews.com: Gallup Poll: Republicans say the country's best days are in the past

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Gallup Poll: Republicans say the country's best days are in the past Jan 23rd 2013, 15:18 WASHINGTON –  As President Obama begins his second term, he is facing an increasingly pessimistic public who believes that America's best days are behind them. According to a recently released Gallup poll, 39 percent of Americans rated the current climate of the country as positive. That's about the same as it was in 2010, but is still less than the percentage of people who said they felt downbeat during President Jimmy Carter's term in 1979. Gallup asked Americans to rate their feelings about the country today, five years from now and five years ago. Based on a scale of 0 to 10, the 39 percent of Americans who gave a 6 to 10 rating when asked to evaluate the nation's current climate was around the same as those surveyed three years ago. The survey also found that most Americans' attitudes toward the status of the country are connected to their political views. Republicans believe that when there is a GOP president in power, things are better. The same rings true of Democrats and their mood based on the party in power. When it comes to the future, the polling agency found a 60-percentage-point partisan difference in optimism. Only 15 percent of Republicans felt positive about the future, compared to 75 percent of Democrats. The Gallup poll results are based on telephone interviews conducted Jan. 7-10, 2012 with 1,011 adults. There is a 4 percentage point margin of error.

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