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Independents are just delusional partisans, episode 12
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Independents are just delusional partisans, episode 12

Account for "pseudo-independents" and independent views of the economy look much different.

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Carl Beijer
May 12, 2023
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Liberal pundits have spent the morning anxiously circulating a chart from the University of Michigan:

No one is surprised, of course, that right around the election of Joe Biden a surge of Democrats decided that the economy is doing pretty good. Or that Republicans, at the exact same time, decided that the economy is doing terrible — giving us the hilarious red and blue X in the center of the graph. But what bodes ill for Biden, we are told, is that “Independent” sentiment towards the economy is also lagging behind Democrats; they “view the economy more like Republicans view the economy,” as Joe Weisenthal puts it.

But once again, I am begging pundits: PLEASE STOP TAKING “INDEPENDENT” AT FACE VALUE!

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