the Presidential elections 2024 Elections have dominated the news cycle this year, and a majority of voters not only feel hopeful about the outcome, they are also increasingly optimistic about the country's future. While half feel it was a bad year, the number saying it was good is the highest since 2020 (at the end of the first year of the pandemic).
When it comes to the country's future, 55% are very or very optimistic about what is coming. This means an increase of 2 points since 2022. Between 2021 and 2022, optimism about the country's future increased by 10 points. The question is not asked in 2023.
Overall, 45% are not very or not at all optimistic.
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The current numbers are driven by partisan divisions — the overwhelming majority of voters Republicans are optimistic about the country's future (86%), while a majority of Democrats (72%) and independents (54%) are not.
In 2021, things turned around between the partisans, although to a lesser extent, reaching 6 out of 10. Democrats saying they are optimistic, while 7 in 10 Republicans and 6 in 10 independents say they are not.
“Since the 1990s, attitudes toward the future have been closely linked to partisanship,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who runs the Fox News poll with Democrat Chris Anderson. “However, there is more overall optimism this year than we have seen in a while, as the fear and rancor of the past few years appears to be waning.”
Looking at 2024, 4 in 10 (40%) say it has been a good year for their family, while half (50%) say it has been a bad year for their net rating -10. That's an improvement from -14 last year (39% good, 53% bad) and much better than in 2020, when it was underwater by 44 points (23% good, 67% bad). From 2012 to 2019, more voters felt positive about their year than negative.
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By a 36-point margin, voters say 2024 was a bad year for America overall (28% good, 64% bad), but that's better than 2020's net negative rating of 65 points (13% good, 78% bad). Since 2018, when the question was first asked, opinions on the country's year-end report card have been in the dark.
Democrats (50% household, 42% country) are most likely Republicans (34%, 19%) and independents (33%, 21%) feel that 2024 was a good year for them and the country.
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Another note of hope…
Half of voters say “hope” describes how they feel about the results of the 2024 presidential election (54%) — the highest among other emotions including relief (50%), surprise (50%), excitement (48%), and fear ( 46%). %), depression (40%), and anger (39%).
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The Fox News poll was conducted December 6-9, 2024, under the supervision of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), and includes interviews with a sample of 1,015 registered voters randomly selected from the National Voter File. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (125) and cell phones (699) or completed the survey online after receiving a text message (191). Results are based on the full sample of registered voters with a sampling error of ±3 percentage points. The sampling error associated with the results between subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, the wording and order of the question can affect the results. Weights are generally applied to the age, race, education, and region variables to ensure that the demographics of respondents are representative of the number of registered voters. Sources for developing weight targets include the American Community Survey, Fox News voter analysis, and voter file data.
