Remember a year ago - when after 8 years of dangerous, destructive Bush rule, we were ready for new approaches to national security, health care, the financial system, and climate change?
Almost year has passed. Do you feel safer now? More optimistic than you did then?
There are plenty of ways to feel unsafe or to feel safer.
Our leaders have been working on them in dozens of areas. I've included as many as I could into the poll.
Choose the policy that has done most to improve your impression of your own safety.
Add a comment, especially if the things that make you feel safer aren't in the list.