Oh, I agree. I was just curious if the OP had anything other than purely subjective opinion.Unless someone actually feels improvement in his/her personal life, they're not going to believe it.
I don't quite agree. I think it's more that their view is so filtered that they are only capable of seeing the bad and not the good. And there are some Obama supporters who see things as rosier than they are.And then there are those who are so partisan they don't WANT the economy to improve, because that would be an admission that the OA has in fact been on the right track.
We are in recovery, it's just not a very good recovery.