Gallup asked a sample of Americans whether the economy was “getting better” or “getting worse” the week before the 2016 election and again the week after. In the preelection poll, only 16 percent of Republicans said it was getting better, whereas over 60 percent of Democrats thought it was improving. In the postelection poll—administered only days later—48 percent of Republicans, triple the percentage before the election, suddenly thought the economy was getting better, while the percentage of optimistic Democrats dropped by about fifteen points. There were no new GDP numbers. The Labor
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