The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® decreased in November, following a slight decline in October. The Index now stands at 125.5 (1985=100), down from 126.1 in October. … “Consumer confidence declined for a fourth consecutive month, driven by a softening in consumers’ assessment of current business and employment conditions,” said […] Read more »
Why the Economy Might Not Sway 2020 Voters
Americans’ views of the economy have become so hardened along partisan lines that the economy may matter less in next year’s presidential election than in the past. Both major political parties have emphasized the economy in the early stages of the campaign. Republicans hope that a rock-bottom unemployment rate and […] Read more »
Americans’ Views on Trade in the Trump Era
As Republican leaders in Washington lean on Democrats to approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCTA), a review of recent Gallup data on trade provides insights into the public opinion backdrop. Five key points emerge from Gallup polling on trade since President Donald Trump took office in 2017. CONT. Lydia Saad, […] Read more »
This election model says 2020 is ‘Trump’s to lose’
Donald Trump: Two-term president? While that prospect may seem distant amid an endless series of terrible headlines — Syria! Ukraine! Impeachment! — for the President of late, a trio of new electoral models from Moody’s Analytics all predict a victory for the incumbent in 2020. “Results from each of the […] Read more »
With 2020 near, Trump finds good economy is hard to deliver
Friday brought some good economic news for President Donald Trump, 136,000 new jobs and a new low in unemployment at 3.5 percent in September. Those are numbers he can point to in his reelection campaign. But two-plus years into Trump’s presidency, there’s also a set of numbers that indicate some […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Americans becoming more likely to say diversity enhances culture
In the last few years, Americans have become more likely to say the country’s increasing diversity enriches the nation’s culture, even as perceptions of how others experience racial discrimination have grown more divided by partisanship, according to new findings from a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. More than 8 in […] Read more »