Amid stubborn inflation and debate over whether central bank policy will lead to a recession, a new Morning Consult/Politico survey finds that a growing share of voters over the past year — especially Democrats and independents — think the U.S. economy will be worse off 12 months from now, with a notable portion of that uptick occurring in just the last two months.
Apprehension over the economy continues to grow among Democrats, independents While Republicans’ economic outlook was relatively unchanged over the past year, the share of Democrats and independents who said the economy will be worse in a year increased by 10 and 7 percentage points, respectively.
Those voters’ souring outlooks were already starting to shift in August, when 29% of Democrats and 51% of independents said they expected the economy to worsen over the next year. In the Aug. 19-21 Morning Consult/Politico survey, 69% of Republicans said the same.
Negative expectations among voters of all stripes have increased since July 2021, when 17% of Democrats, 61% of Republicans and 38% of both independents and voters overall said they thought the economy would worsen.
Roughly 3 in 5 voters said in the most recent survey that they think inflation in the U.S. economy is getting worse, including 78% of Republicans, 63% of independents and 41% of Democrats.
https://morningconsult.com/2022/10/19/us-economy-better-or-worse-inflation-survey-data/
