Think Favorably About Obama
A pre-inaugural Pew Research Center poll finds about eight-in-ten Americans (79%) hold a favorable view of the incoming president, including 59% of Republicans.
Roughly half of Americans describe themselves as middle class.
The vast majority of self-identified middle class workers (89% overall) are either completely or mostly satisfied with their job.
Fewer than half of all African Americans (44%) now say they think life for blacks will get better in the future, down from the 57% who said so in a 1986 survey.
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