On one level, the story of President Biden’s first year is a simple one: Americans feel worse about the pandemic and economy than they did earlier in his term, and his ratings have suffered for it. On another level, it’s a little more nuanced: they do not exclusively blame his […] Read more »
Biden’s economic message needs a reality check
… Per our Jan. 2-4 Winning the Issues survey, our first of the year, what we’re seeing isn’t a “failure to communicate” on the part of Biden, his administration and congressional Democrats, but a failure to connect with the reality most Americans are facing and the priorities people want addressed. […] Read more »
U.S. Economic Optimism Tumbles As Investors Turn Gloomy: IBD/TIPP
Optimism about the near-term outlook for the U.S. economy dived to an 18-month low as omicron case-levels exploded and inflation continued to hit generational highs, the new IBD/TIPP Poll finds. The major shift came among investors, who are suddenly feeling more bearish about the U.S. economic outlook than they’ve been […] Read more »
The nation’s mental health crisis crosses partisan lines
In most Suffolk University/USA TODAY polls, public opinion on a variety of questions we ask splits along partisan lines. Democrats are yin and Republicans are yang. … In this week’s national poll of registered voters, 80% of Republicans, 91% of Democrats, and 93% of Independents said that there is a […] Read more »
This is the worst economy we never had
… The economy is going gangbusters — historically so. Yet Americans, particularly Republicans, express a gloom not matched by economic reality — or by their own spending behaviors. Polls and consumer-confidence indices show an economic pessimism as grim as when millions lost jobs in the pandemic shutdown. This is, in […] Read more »
Americans hope that 2022 will be better
Although most Americans don’t think 2021 was great, more hold out hope that 2022 will be better. The past year was one of many ups and downs, as hope that COVID was in abeyance dissipated with the emergence of the Delta and omicron variants. COVID remains one of the most […] Read more »