(11-23-2024, 04:15 PM)Jag149 Wrote:

(11-23-2024, 04:06 PM)mikesez Wrote: I didn't seek this info.  It popped up in another thread I was reading.

Biden ran on, in part, "Trump messed up the economy".  His voters had below average consumer sentiment the whole time Trump was in office.  Not just with Covid. When Biden won, the sentiment of his voters went up, slowly, while the sentiment of Republican voters crashed suddenly.

Now the reverse is playing out, but both changes are sudden.

Is this real? Do some people suddenly change their reported party affiliation after their party loses?  They just want to affiliate with the winner?

That seems unlikely, but at least such people seem likely to be loyal and happy.  

Or do people change their feelings about the economy based on an election outcome? That seems more likely.  And isn't that sad? It would indicate, that no matter what Biden did, Republicans would continue to say, "the Biden economy sucks." And now, no matter what Trump says, Democrats (at least the ones who want to win Democrat primaries) will say "the Trump economy sucks".

I can't see that being likely, people view the economy based on their lives. There is no proof of it. This is much ado about nothing. You do however have the right to be sad if you want.