美国纽约时报和哥伦比亚广播公司联合进行的一项调查显示，81%的美国居民认为美国正在朝错误的方向发展。去年持这种看法的人占69%，2002年初是35%。
当被问到如何将美国今天的状况与5年前相比时，78%的民众回答说，现在不如过去。只有4%的人回答说，国家现在的状况比过去好。21%的受访者认为美国经济状况良好，这是自1992年来的最低比率。
参与这项民调的55%的人认为美国现在的种族关系良好，36%的人认为种族关系不好。1300百多人参与这项民意调查，这项民调的误差率为3个百分点。
A new survey by the New York Times and CBS News says 81-percent of U.S. residents believe the United States is headed in the wrong direction. That number was 69 percent last year and 35 percent in early 2002.
When asked to compare the condition of the U.S. today to what it was five years ago, 78-percent said things are worse now. Only four percent said the country is better off now. Twenty-one-percent of respondents believe the U.S. economy is doing well. That is the lowest such number since 1992.
Fifty-five-percent of those surveyed believe race relations are good in the U.S. now, compared to 36-percent who think they are bad.Over 13-hundred people took part in the survey, which has a margin of error of three percentage points.