A majority of Americans said the national economy has recovered based on their own personal experience, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Wednesday.
Fifty-three percent said the economy has recovered personally for them, compared with 46 percent who said it has not. Those are nearly identical numbers to the ABC/WaPo poll in December, when 53 percent also said the economy had turned around for them. But it marks a significant reversal from one year ago.
In the March 2012 ABC/WaPo survey, the public was split on the economic recovery: 49 percent said it had improved, but another 49 percent said it had not. Last January, a majority of 54 percent said the economy had not begun to recover.
