Is the economy mattering less and less as a key predictor of political success?

[Associate Justice PiT]

     In the age of hyperpartisanship, more and more people will read what they want into the health of the economy in order to advance their own ends, and are guided in so doing by those whose opinions they trust (and these people are very often politically motivated). This tendency to judge economic health based on what is politically convenient partially disarms it as a sorting factor.