… When Mitt Romney said this was the first time a majority of Americans were pessimistic about the future, I was startled. I devised an important measure to address this topic in 1984 as a consultant working with Warren Mitofsky at CBS. …
This might have been a minor whopper in the scheme of convention whoppers but I take this one personally.
The only time since 1984 when there was widespread optimism about the future in the polls was in the last year of William Jefferson Clinton, and never under Presidents, Reagan, or either Bush. [cont.]
Samuel Popkin (via James Fallows, The Atlantic)