Why don’t Republicans and Democrats see the same economy?

[McFurd]

Quartz Media - 5/13/2017 - Tim Fernholz - 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. Between June 2016 and December 2016—before and after the election—the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey found [pdf] that Democratic consumer sentiment fell almost 13 percentage points on their index, while Republican sentiment rose 40 percentage points. Today, the latest data shows that the divergence “is still huge, but the gap between Democrats and Republicans narrowed slightly to 55 Index points from 65 three months ago.” Read more @ https://qz.com/982508/why-dont-republic ... e-economy/