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Republicans are smiling in the afterglow of the 2016 election but Washington chaos and congressional turmoil are leaving people on both sides of the public- opinion spectrum with a sour take on politics.

Life in the US is better now than it was 50 years ago, say 44 percent of Republicans polled by the Pew Research Center. Thats a 26-point leap from the 18 percent of GOP voters who felt that way in 2016.

As Republican views improved, Democrats views turned more negative.

Just 35 percent of Democrats say the country is better than it once was. Thats a drop of seven points from 52 percent a year ago.

Overall, only 37 percent said that American life is better now than it was in 1967, and 41 percent say things are worse.

The partisan flip-flop means that the general national mood is almost identical to what it was in August 2016, when the Pew poll found that 36 percent of Americans felt that life is better than it was.

That lines up with other pollsters findings on whether Americans think that the country is on the right or the wrong track: public opinion is still about as negative about the state of the country as it was in Barack Obamas last year as president.

And happiness about the state of their personal lives is having no impact on partisans views of how their parties are faring in Washington where both Democrats and Republicans say they feel like political losers.

Even though the GOP holds both houses of Congress and the White House, just 42 percent of Republicans say their side is winning more than it is losing a reflection of the House and Senate logjams that have stalled the Trump agenda.

More GOP voters, 46 percent, say that their side is on the losing end in Washington more often than not.

And Democrats are even more unhappy a whopping 79 percent say their party is a political loser.

Just 26 percent of those polled said their side is winning on the issues they care about most compared to 62 percent who say their representatives are losing where it counts.

The telephone poll surveyed 5,009 adults in June and July.

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