CBS News poll analysis looks at how Americans rate economy through a partisan lens
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There are various factors that go into how people evaluate the country's economy — their own personal financial situation, the price of goods, economic indicators — but there's one more that might not immediately come to mind: political partisanship.
Public perceptions of the nation's economy have grown more connected to political partisanship and more specifically, to which party controls the White House.
For much of the past two decades, Republicans have viewed the economy more positively when a Republican president is in office, and Democrats have viewed it more positively when a Democratic president is in office.
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