With the approach of the 2020 presidential election season, much of the media is now promoting the most pessimistic spin possible on the findings of a recent — and methodologically questionable — NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
With headlines like “A deep and boiling anger” to portray Americans’ purported hostility toward the Trump administration, NBCNews.com draws upon polling data to describe an electorate in despair — seething with anger over President Trump — refusing to acknowledge the booming economy and lowest unemployment rates in decades.
The problem is that despite all the media hype that has accompanied this latest poll, the truth is that Americans are no more angry than they were four years ago. In fact, Republicans report feeling significantly less angry than they were four years ago, but Republican optimism has been minimized by the media in order to focus on the “boiling” anger of Democrats.
With regard to the economy, 69 percent of the 1,000 respondents to the survey say they are satisfied with their overall financial situation, and 57 percent of the respondents to the national survey claimed to be very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with the state of the economy today. This is a dramatic increase over the 39 percent of respondents who were very satisfied or satisfied with the economy in June 2015 — the final year of the Obama presidency. But none of the negative Obama-era dissatisfaction data are included in any of the media reports of the “seething anger” of today’s electorate.
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See Also:
(1) Analysis: Increasingly Diverse U.S. Counties Quickly Turn Democrat
(2) Why President Trump Hasn’t Aged As Much As His Predecessors
(3) Top federal election watchdog panel doesn’t have enough members to legally hold meetings
