PRINCETON, NJ -- Eighty-five percent of Americans say that economic conditions in the country are getting worse, within two percentage points of the most negative reading on this measure all year. Forty-one percent of those interviewed in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking release for April 4-6 say that economic conditions in the U.S. are "poor". -- Frank Newport


Survey Methods
Gallup is interviewing no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults nationwide each day during 2008. The economic questions analyzed in this report are asked of a random half-sample of respondents. The results reported here are based on combined data from 1,490 interviews conducted April 4-6, 2008. For results based on this sample, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
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