From Celinda Lake’s latest battleground poll:
And in a stunning shift, voters do not have positive expectations for their children’s economic future either. The current generation does not expect their children to be better off financially than they themselves are. This was a dynamic that bode ill for Bush’s father (and other Republicans) back in 1992. Just 19% of the electorate expect the next generation to improve on their economic status. Most think they will be stagnant. Only 16% of non-college and 19% of college educated voters believe their children will do better. The combination of these factors plays heavily into their pessimism about the direction of the country and is a strong catalyst in voters’ desire for change.