Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index was -11 for the week ending Nov. 11, little changed from -10 the week prior. Economic confidence has maintained its improved level during the first part of November — with the most favorable readings of the year and since the economic downturn in 2008. [cont.] […] Read more »
The Culture War and the Jobs Crisis
… Throughout much of the period of conservative domination of presidential elections from 1968 to 1988 — and in terms of Congressional power from 1994 to 2006 — the Republican Party had a major election-day edge: there was far more ideological cohesion and less divisive conflict on the right than […] Read more »
Consumer sentiment at five-year high; inventories jump
An increasingly upbeat view of the economy and jobs market drove U.S. consumer sentiment to a more than five-year high in early November, while a jump in wholesale inventories suggested the economy grew more than initially estimated last quarter. … The index of consumer sentiment from Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan […] Read more »
What do voters really think about the economy? Three lessons from exit polls
Deep within Tuesday’s election results is some surprising insight about the way Americans are thinking about the economic conditions affecting them. For all the sense of economic discontent brewing in the country, at the broadest level, their vote was for the status quo: President Obama will remain in the White […] Read more »
The Real Mandate: CAF/Democracy Corps Election Poll 2012
Warren Buffett has famously said that of course there’s a class war, “and my class has been winning.” But in this election, Mitt Romney – the candidate of, by and for the 1 percent – lost. And he lost significantly because the middle class responded to a class war debate, […] Read more »
More Evidence that Obama’s Victory Reflects the Economic Fundamentals
If you think the “fundamentals” (and by the “fundamentals,” I mean the economy) were stacked in Mitt Romney’s favor in the 2012 presidential election, you’re not alone. You share the prevailing beliefs of many political observers. … Most versions of their explanations go something like this: the fundamentals were in […] Read more »