| Okay, so you're going to go with the classic "I will disregard all evidence that I don't like by making unsubstantiated claims of bias". It's not hard to find research that supports conclusions based on polling from different time periods. [1] Fact is most people don't have enough data points in their personal lives to make any kind of conclusion about the state of the economy. They haven't gotten a raise in two years and their cousin Dale got laid off last week, but no one would extrapolate that to mean the economy is bad. > They do different jobs, live in different geographic locations with varying density and urbanization Yes, but they don't typically all swap locations with each other when a new administration takes power. Nevertheless their opinions do swap. > economy was good but perceived by idiots who didn't know better That is, in fact, exactly what happened. [1] https://isr.umich.edu/news-events/news-releases/partisan-att... |