Welcome to media BS.
By saying - “Thirty-four percent say the economy is in bad shape.” Is really saying “Sixty-six percent says the economy is in better shape.” (Or improving)
If you only present the glass as half empty, then you won’t allow the reader to say that is good even though you still have a half glass to work with to refill the top half. All is lost with just as much to use as you used already to show, at least, a balance of success versus failure. And you have the same amount left to improve. The media lies in strange ways.
rwood
34% is the hard-left coalition and will poll in opposition to anything that is good news for the US every single time.