Yes. Feeling is believing, but I don't know how policy makers should handle it when so much of how people feel is dependent on if their "team" is in the White House: https://news.clas.ufl.edu/partisan-politics-and-consumer-sen...

That's not surprising at all. People expect their preferred candidate to set policies that benefit them, so their sentiment rises.

People have a preferred candidate? Jesus, how?

> Maybe what people feel is more real / closer to practical reality than the numbers the elites point to argue otherwise?

Bingo.

People who argue the economy is doing well based on some coarse high-level numbers are missing a lot, because the numbers are coarse and high-level. The most charitable interpretation is they're confusing the map for the territory.