Saturday, October 25, 2025

Polls Show Voters Now Trust Dems More to Handle the Economy

OpEd: The issue that sank Democrats in 2024 now threatens to do the same to Republicans in 2025 and the 2026 midterms

Posted by LampLighter at 11:31 AM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

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New polls from Gallup, YouGov, and out of Virginia show voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. Nationally, Dems now have a 4-point margin on the issue -- an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show ...

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-- G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) Oct 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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More from the OpEd ...

... Donald Trump won the 2024 election because of inflation. The issue was the most important to voters' choices in 2024, according to a Gallup poll. ...

Partly as a result of Trump's victory, the conventional wisdom in American politics is now that Republicans have an unshakeable edge on handling the economy, and there's little the Democrats can do about that. ...

But recent data suggests these narratives are overdue a corrective. New polls from Gallup and YouGov show Democrats pulling ahead of Republicans as the party voters trust more to handle the economy. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-24 09:37 PM

".. Donald Trump won the 2024 election because of inflation. The issue was the most important to voters' choices in 2024, according to a Gallup poll. ..."

See, this is where you are wrong.

Trump won because the American electorate morally bankrupt.

Further evidence of this is that the American electorate no longer holds it's politicians accountable for prices.

When are the talking heads going to get that fact into their thick skulls?

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-24 09:58 PM

@#2 ... See, this is where you are wrong.

Trump won because the American electorate [is] morally bankrupt. ...

That's a pretty strong statement.

One that I do not completely disagree with.

OK, let me say, that the 2024 election was won because of Trump's claims upon what he would do for (to?) the economy. Claims that have since shown to be false, oh so false, and the results of which apparently detrimental.

OK, yeah, the electorate believed those political claims, as they might do for any politician. I still am not, at this point, of the opinion of "morally bankrupt."


OK, now, let's fast forward to the current ...

Yeah, there still seems to be [diminishing] approval of what Pres Trump is doing.

But that MAGA still seems to support him gives credence to your comment currently.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-24 10:35 PM

... Donald Trump won the 2024 election because of inflation. ...

That was then.

This is now ...

President Trump Job Approval - Inflation
www.realclearpolling.com

...
RCP Average 9/15 - 10/20
Approve: 35.5
Disapprove: 62.8
Spread: -27.3
...

The difference between "then and now" seems to be a rather strong indicator of Pres Trump's apparent inability to govern.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-25 12:10 AM

strong indicator of Pres Trump's apparent inability to govern.

Was governing his plan? I thought it was more just bilking money from whoever would give it to him.

Well, that and pumping his ego. That Nobel loss really stung him hard. He'll bomb his way to the next Peace Prize.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-25 12:14 AM

@#5 ... Was governing his plan? I thought it was more just bilking money from whoever would give it to him. Well, that and pumping his ego. ...

I tried to think up some manner of a counter-argument to your comment.

But I came up with nothing, except, I agree.


... pumping his ego ...

So, like me, you have watched those Cabinet meeting live streams?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-25 12:33 AM

you have watched those Cabinet meeting live streams?

I can't. I find them embarrassing just to watch.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-25 12:36 AM

@#7 ... embarrassing ...

I'd characterize them more as "shameful."

A shameful and public illustration of those who should be serving Americans apparently instead espousing their unfettered servitude towards Pres Trump.

But that's just me.



#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-25 12:57 AM

I'd characterize them more as "shameful."

That's fair.

#9 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-25 12:58 AM

Trump/MAGA treat the American economy like a cat they've found to torture.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-25 07:58 AM

Hoover was better at handling the economy than the daughter-boning orange pedo.

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-25 01:27 PM

America did better with inflation during COVID and the aftermath than any other developed nation.

Trump has tanked our economy and caused the inflation after promising "I'll end inflation on day one!"

Like ending Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine ... and so much more.

#12 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-10-26 11:55 AM

Why would anyone trust the serial rapist who bankrupted multiple casinos?

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-26 11:57 AM

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