(The Center Square) – A new study released Wednesday shows that Wisconsin voters are still unhappy with the state of the national economy and are doing a little worse financially than they were last year.
From August 28 to September 5, 822 registered Wisconsin voters were polled by Marquette Law School. 35% of the people who answered the poll were Republicans, 32% were Democrats, and 32% were Independents. There is a +/-4.6 range for the values.
Only 3% of those who answered think the national economy is “excellent,” while 30% say it is “poor.” 32% of people said the economy is “good,” while 35% said it was “not so good.”
The numbers aren’t much better than they were a year ago, when 37% of poll respondents said the economy was bad.
Franklin said, “Views of the national economy have not changed very much.” “There’s no sign of’morning again in America,’ as Ronald Reagan put it in the 1980s, and there’s also no sign that disaster and recession are on the way either.”
There is a little more hope for Wisconsin voters; 46% think their state is going in the right direction and 53% think it is going in the wrong way.
In the past few months, this view hasn’t changed much. It’s better than a year ago, when only 36% thought the state was going in the right way and 62% said it was going in the wrong direction.
People are still pretty negative about the state; more people still say it’s going in the wrong way. That’s the main point. But things are a little better than they were before, said Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette study.
The study also showed that Wisconsinites’ financial situations have been slowly getting worse since last year.
Only 44% of those polled said they are currently living comfortably, which is less than half of those who said that last year. 38% said they are barely making it, and 17% said they are really suffering. These numbers are both two points higher than in 2023.
According to the results, most business owners in Wisconsin say their costs have gone up by about 20% since Biden took office, and the usual sale price of a home in swing states has gone up by almost 40% since 2020.