ATLANTA — Economic matters still rate as the top issues on Georgia voters’ minds with a little more than six weeks to go before this year’s presidential election, but new polling shows that voters have tilted — tentatively — toward optimism.

Views of the economy have grown rosier, with 58% of respondents saying they expect the economy to improve over the next 12 months, according to a poll conducted this month for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That’s up from 42% who felt that way in June. In January, that figure was just 36%.