First, this is a Fox-poll, which is generally worthless.
Second, I can find a thousand folks in West Virginia who would readily agree that things were better in 1966, than they are today.
Finally, most of us aren’t sitting around dwelling on stupid questions like this and trying to gauge today’s mess against last year’s mess, against the mess of ten years ago.
A Faux poll? forget it.
Gallup - Sept 14-28, 2020: Most Say They Are Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago
(scroll down) During his presidential campaign in 1980, Ronald Reagan asked Americans, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Since then, this question has served as a key standard that sitting presidents running for reelection have been held to.
Gallup’s most recent survey found a clear majority of registered voters (56%) saying they are better off now than they were four years ago, while 32% said they are worse off.
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/321650/gallup-election-2020-coverage.aspx
It’s a pertinent question asked every election cycle.
FOX push pull. They are dead to me
Did the Fox poll have the President down 17 percent again?
And just after the Fox poll closed I understand an additional 159,000 percentage points came in against the President.