America Getting Back on Track

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| Tue Apr. 10, 2012 9:19 AM PDT

No special reason for posting this, but I was browsing through the latest ABC/Washington Post poll and was curious to see how things were going on the famous right track/wrong track question beloved of Beltway pundits. And since I took the trouble to graph it, I figured I might as well share. Answer: things are looking up. Not strongly up, but right track bottomed out last September and it's been rising slowly but steadily ever since.

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