James Carville once tried to greatly simplify American politics. I’m going to take a longer term view, back to the 1940’s, using the Gallup Poll’s “Most Important Problem” surveys. He’s only partly right, IMHO. For 1948-83, I’ll use the top problem from each year to greatly simplify the analysis. In the Cold War period (1948-62), … Continue reading It’s the Economy, Stupid