Poll: Majority of Americans Say Things 'Going Well'

Maybe it's Thanksgiving good feelings, but most Americans seem to think things are going pretty well in the US, according to a new poll. True, it's just a slight margin in the direction of positive perceptions, but a CNN/ORC poll conducted the weekend before Thanksgiving finds that for the first time in seven years, "a majority of Americans think things are going well in the nation." "It's a slim majority -- just 52 percent of Americans said things are going well, while 48 percent said things are going badly -- but it's the most positive appraisal of the state of the nation that the poll has found since January of 2007," CNN reports.