Are you better off than you were four years ago? Turns out, most people say no - and at just three weeks to go before Election Day, that could prove to be a problem for the Harris/Walz campaign.
According to a new poll released by Gallup Friday, “More than half of Americans (52%) say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, while 39% say they are better off and 8% volunteer that they are about the same.”
The polling agency added that “The 2024 response is most similar to 1992 among presidential election years in which Gallup has asked the question,” explaining that in years when most Americans considered the economy to be generally worse than it was four years before, the incumbent - in this case, the Biden/Harris administration - tended not to fare too well. The one exception to that rule was the 2020 election, when most Americans rated the economy favorably but Donald Trump still lost to Joe Biden, a phenomenon Gallup attributes to the voters suddenly caring more about non-economic factors for the first time in…literally ever.
And which I’m sure had nothing at all to do with unconstitutional mail-in ballots, Democrat ballot-harvesting, and the media’s election interference.
Now, four years later, almost half of all respondents rated “the economy” as their most important concern, and more than half say their families are riding the financial struggle bus.
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On a scale of -100 to +100, with “+100” being a unanimous consensus that the economy’s doing fantastic and “-100” being every single American saying it’s in the toilet, Gallup reports that “Americans’ economic views, from an Oct. 1-12 poll, puts the ECI at -26 -- one of the worst election-year readings.”
Gallup adds:
Over the past four years, Economic Confidence has largely been negative. In 2022, the index registered several scores that were among the worst since the 2007-2009 recession, as inflation reached levels not seen in four decades. During the past three years, Americans have named inflation as the most important financial problem facing their family.
It remains to be seen how Americans' concerns play out at the polls. But one thing is certain: when it comes to how Americans feel about the bills currently sitting on their kitchen table, the Biden administration hasn't exactly helped.
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