Gallup: Life got better for pretty much everyone under Obama President Obama golfs his way to a better life on Martha's Vineyard. In 2008, fewer than half of Americans said their life was good enough their current lives and their expectations for life in the future. On a scale of zero to 10, "those who rate their present life a 7 or higher and their life in five years an 8 or higher are classified as Obama's second term "shows an improvement in whites' life evaluations —