Eighty-one percent of Americans think the country has “pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” up 12 percent from around this time last year, according to a recent New York Times/CBS poll.

This marks the first time since the early 1990s that so many Americans thought the country was going down in the wrong direction in this poll.

The poll also looked into specifics about what issues concerned Americans more, and what they thought of President George W. Bush’s job performance.

Of those polled, 78 percent thought that things are worse today than they were five years ago. Bush’s job approval rating rested at 28 percent.

Americans ranked the economy as the most important problem facing the country in the poll. The cost of fuel ranked highest for economic problems.

The poll took place between March 28 and April 2, and 1,368 adults nationwide were polled.

Pollsters used a random sample and conducted telephone surveys with checks in place to have every region of the county represented, according to the New York Times.