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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
There is something amiss about that Gallup poll repeatedly cited by President Trump re "better off than 4 years ago." Here's FT-Peterson Foundation: 35% say "better off" ig.ft.com/ft-peterson-po…
Economist/YouGov poll has 38% saying "better off than four years ago" today.yougov.com/topics/politic…
Gallup's numbers have consistently been uniquely high on the "better off" question. EG here they are back in February, just at onset of corona crisis. Somebody more expert than I will have to reverse engineer Gallup's methods news.gallup.com/poll/284264/re…
But clearly if 56% *did* think they were better off than 4 years ago, it's unlikely that the incumbent president would be losing by 8-10 points in Gallup's other polls

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6 Oct
That's a premature question. The work is not over yet, and may not be over for many months.

But ... since you ask ... some guesses: 1/x
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