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Selected links from the November 27, 2024, edition of Opinion Today
US Consumer Confidence Improved Again in November Conference Board The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased in November to 111.7 (1985=100), up 2.1 points from 109.6 in October.
Shoppers Plan to Spend More Than $1,000 on Holiday Gifts Lydia Saad, Gallup
What do Americans know about Donald Trump? Taylor Orth, YouGov
Most say they'll try to avoid political talk at post-election Thanksgiving — CBS News poll Jennifer De Pinto & Anthony Salvanto, CBS News
Massachusetts: Optimism About Personal Finances Increases But Economic Outlook Slips University of New Hampshire Survey Center New York State: 93% of NY’ers Celebrate Thanksgiving; 53% Plan to Watch Football Siena College Research Institute Virginia: 2024 Holiday Spending Report Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion Research The 2024 presidential election was close, not a landslide Nathaniel Rakich and Amina Brown, 538 This is Trump’s real ‘mandate’ Catherine Rampell, Washington Post [unlocked]
Polling in the age of Trump highlights flawed methods and filtered realities Spencer Goidel, Eliana DuBosar & Zoe Nemerever (Auburn), The Conversation
Pollsters weighted more in 2024 – and it helped Brian Schaffner and Caroline Soler (Tufts), Good Authority
Are Americans’ perceptions of the economy and crime broken? Joshua Benton, Nieman Lab When beliefs trump facts, Thanksgiving becomes less fun Annie Duke, Washington Post [unlocked] Americans want lower prices. Too bad: Trump wants tariffs. Philip Bump, Washington Post
Why American democracy will survive Eva Bellin (Brandeis) & Kurt Weyland (UT Austin), Washington Post [unlocked] Do Latinos Really Support Mass Deportation? The Great Transformation with Mike Madrid A Guide for the Politically Homeless Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic [unlocked]
There’s much more in today’s FULL edition of Opinion Today:
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