MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Star Tribune Minnesota Poll found that 40 percent of Minnesotans feel they're worse off financially than a year ago.

But the poll also found 45 percent of Minnesotans think their finances are in "good" to "excellent" condition, compared with 14 percent who answered "poor" and 41 percent "fair."
But even some Minnesotans hopeful about their own finances feel less confident about the state of the nation. Eight in 10 Minnesota Poll respondents said the U.S. has gotten "pretty seriously off on the wrong track." That's the highest percentage since the question was first asked in 1987 and two points higher than the previous "wrong track" record from 1992.

The poll of 1,205 Minnesota adults was conducted over three days ending last Thursday, as Congress was struggling with a $700 billion bailout package. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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