A new post-election poll shows that a slight majority of people are optimistic about the country given Donald Trump‘s victory last week.
The new WaPo-Schar School poll finds that 54 percent are optimistic about the way things are going in the country, while 48 percent are specifically optimistic about the policies Trump will pursue.
Most people said they felt stressed out a lot by campaign news and a whopping 73 percent said they actually “felt angry” by things they heard on the trail.
What’s more, 45 percent of people earnestly think that the 2016 election has done “real damage to the country.” (8 percent of those blame Hillary Clinton more, 53 percent blame Trump more, 29 percent think they’re equally to blame.)
Most polled are confident Trump can serve effectively as president, can change up Washington, and improve Americans’ standard of living, but he has net negatives on people’s confidence of whether he can respect people he disagrees with and make “wise decisions about war and peace.”
You can read the full poll results here.
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