US Opinion Poll ‘Price Error’, Housing Cost Concerns, Tariff Increases, Trump Support
The error in the US presidential election opinion poll was diagnosed as being caused by bias and errors in the indicator of ‘price stabilization’, and 56% of actual voters who responded ‘concerns about housing costs’ supported Trump and were elected.
Conservative media outlet ‘Breitbart’ stated in its analysis of the presidential election, “Americans Voted to Make the American Economy Great Again,” on the 8th, “The reason the American people re-elected Donald Trump was because of their rejection of the economy formed by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party’s policies and their desire to revive the prosperity of former President Trump’s first term.”
Regarding the error in the poll, the outlet said, “An old rule of thumb in American politics is that candidates should avoid being on the wrong side of an issue that 60% of Americans agree on,” and “Harris and the Democrats were clearly on the wrong side, frequently claiming that the economy was good or even amazing, and winning over voters who agreed with this, but this was outside the mainstream of American public opinion, with only 7% of voters actually saying that the economy was ‘good’ and 30% saying that it was ‘good.’”
Brightbite diagnosed that the winner was determined by the issue of ‘housing costs,’ which is the biggest headache for Americans, and “no one believed Harris’s claim that she was managing the economy better.”
Regarding housing costs, which are a big headache for many Americans, the survey results showed that 51% of respondents said they were ‘very concerned,’ and 56% actually voted for Trump.
Voters pointed out that the policy of ‘tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded homebuyer subsidies’ promised by the Democrats and candidate Harris was actually ignored. Polling on tariffs is also a source of error for mainstream media and policy.
Vice President Harris has probably repeated her claim that tariffs are a “national sales tax” thousands of times in recent months. But voters are evenly divided on the issue.
According to a conservative Fox News poll, 49 percent support “raising taxes on goods imported into the United States from other countries.” Trump won 71 percent of tariff supporters and 28 percent of tariff opponents.
The outlet said that the reason why the conservative and pro-Trump Fox News was so clearly ahead in the exit polls was “very clear that this was an economic election, as Breitbart Business Digest has consistently argued for over a year,” and that “63% of voters said the economy was ‘bad’ or ‘not good,’ according to the results of an exit poll conducted jointly by Fox News and the Associated Press. Trump won 59% of the 40% who said the economy was ‘not very good,’ and Trump won 84% of the 24% who said the economy was ‘bad.’”
Regarding the defeat of the Democrats and Harris, the Economist commented on the political aversion of voters, saying, “With unemployment at 4% and GDP per capita at $85,000, the U.S. economy does not need to be great again. It is great.” Regarding Harris's Democratic Party's failure in the oath issue, the media outlet said,
"Historically, it is very difficult for an incumbent candidate to be elected when voters have such a gloomy view of the economy." "Harris did her best to convince voters that she is not an extension of the Biden administration's unpopular economic policies but represents change, but in the Fox News exit poll, 41% of respondents said Harris would handle the economy better, while 50% said Trump would do better, and the result was a close call."
The reason the economy was particularly important in the election was because many Americans considered it the top issue, and 39% of voters said the economy was the most important issue in this election, and Trump won 60% of the votes.
In immigration, which Harris attacked Trump on, 20% of voters said it was the most important issue in 'partially economic immigration,' and 88% of these voters chose Trump. The New York Times reported on the 7th, “President Trump claims that higher tariffs on foreign goods will help American manufacturing and create jobs, and his proposal would raise tariffs to levels not seen in generations,” and “Many economists have warned that such a move could have potentially harmful consequences, including higher costs for American households and businesses and a trade war that would destabilize the world.”
In his address to the nation after his crushing defeat in the presidential election, President Biden acknowledged that “the bill we passed is only now really starting to take effect,” and that “many of the benefits of the federal government investments his administration has made” will be felt over the next 10 years, acknowledging that “long-term strategies” lack “short-term results.”
In its retrospective on Biden's economic legacy, the New York Times pointed out the reason for the "Democratic Party's crushing defeat" and said on the 8th, "The Biden-Harris administration's effort to reorganize American manufacturing has been the most ambitious economic plan in a generation, but most voters have yet to see the fruits of its policies." It also said, "The bill enacted by the Biden-Harris administration is designed to inject hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy to develop domestic clean energy and semiconductor sectors, and this investment has been likened to a modern-day New Deal policy that would reduce America's supply chain's dependence on foreign enemies while creating thousands of jobs, including for workers without college degrees."