Ever since the election of US president Donald Trump, consumer surveyors have noticed a trend: A determining factor for Americans’ economic outlook is whether they are Democrats or Republicans. … Though the new administration has yet to enact any significant economic policy, there is a logic to the shifting expectations: […] Read more »
Healthcare Surges as Top Problem in US
Americans became much more concerned about healthcare this month, with 18% naming it as the most important problem facing the U.S. Mentions of healthcare tie with mentions of “dissatisfaction with government/poor leadership” at the top of the most important problems list. CONT. Art Swift, Gallup Read more »
Why did Trump win? New research by Democrats offers a worrisome answer.
As the Democratic Party rebuilds itself for the 2018 and 2020 elections, Democratic strategists have been preoccupied with a pressing question: Why did so many voters who backed Barack Obama in 2012 switch to Donald Trump four years later, and what can be done to win them back? Top Democratic […] Read more »
The Ways That the 2016 Election Was Perfectly Normal
It’s no secret that the state of the nation’s economy and party identification matter in most American presidential elections. Candidates know it, consultants know it, political scientists know it, and voters seem aware of the relationship, too. … In actuality, the state of the nation’s economy — growing slowly — […] Read more »
On the Power of Being Awful
… Soft data are things like surveys of consumer and business confidence; hard data are things like actual retail sales. Normally these data tell similar stories (which is why the soft data are useful as a sort of early warning system for the coming hard data). Since the 2016 election, […] Read more »
Consumer sentiment remains on high plateau in April
Consumer sentiment in April continued to travel on the high plateau established following Donald Trump’s election, with only minor deviations from its five-month average of 97.4, according to the University of Michigan (U-M) Surveys of Consumers. There is widespread agreement among consumers on their very positive assessments of the current […] Read more »