This pollster has a strategy for savvy Democratic candidates: “If market is up, talk about wealth inequality; if the market drops substantially, talk about the president’s failing economic policies.”
It may also explain why billionaire bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach, who is no socialist, said this week he can see the socialist Vermont senator winning the Democratic nomination and, maybe, even winning the White House.
David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, says the economy can be a complex issue in an election. On the one hand, the rising stock market is good for Trump, Paleologos says. On the other hand, “income inequality, and wealth inequality, is most pronounced when the stock market is doing well,” he said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren have both made big campaign issues out of fighting economic inequality and making health care cheaper for more people. According to the latest polling, Sanders leads in both Iowa and New Hampshire and is in second place nationally among Democrats behind Joe Biden. Warren is third nationwide, and fourth in the two early voting states.
8% of those earning over $500,000 a year had experienced problems with medical, dental or prescription drug bills in recent years vs. 48% for the middle-class. “Most of the top 1% highest income adults say they are very satisfied with their lives overall, their finances, their housing, their education, and their jobs,” the study reports.
Some 90% of those in the top 1% were “very” or “completely” satisfied with their lives. Among the middle class the figure was 66%. And fewer than two in five middle-class Americans were very or completely satisfied with their financial situation.
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