I'm John Batchelor, and it is primary day across the United States at various states.

California is a major news item, but that's an all blue state and we can expect a california governor nomination though this is a

jungle primary the final election will be in november and in iowa there's a mixed record of the

contestants in new jersey other states are voting today,

not all 50. But Gallup has done us the favor of issuing a snapshot of the American consumer

on primary day, and the news is alarming if you're a partisan Republican, encouraging, if you're a partisan Democrat, however, I want to call upon my good colleague and friend of many years, decades now.

That is, McHodder, former member of Congress from the great state of Michigan, who has been through many primary days and can guide me to read the Gallup poll the way that primary day voters and especially primary day parties see the results that we'll have in 24 or 48 hours or in California's case a month from now because it takes a long time to count the votes in California.

That is a very good day to you.

The chart that I go to from Gallup is the one that has Republicans,

independents, and Democrats on the same scale.

It's called the economic confidence falls across parties.

And it writes, Gallup writes,

The Economic Confidence Index

summarizes Americans' evaluations

of current economic conditions

and their views of whether the country is getting better or worse.

It has a theoretical range of minus 100

and plus 100.

And this is the one that I go to

because it features the independence.

What we have here is a surprising and, in fact, maybe close to historical drop in

independence opinions of the economy of either party.

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