Fewer than one in four Republicans (23%) now rate economic conditions as excellent or good, substantially fewer than did so a few months ago. Throughout most of President Bush's time in office a large partisan gap has been evident in judgments about the state of the U.S. economy, with most Democrats and independents offering negative assessments, and most Republicans offering positive assessments.
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