How negative are Americans on the economy? Very, very negative, according to pollster Scott Rasmussen’s Consumer Index, which has been dropping like a stone. It’s a number that factors in results from several questions which Rasmussen asks voters daily, and it currently stands at 61.4, down from 64.9, 64.3 and 66.2 on the three previous days. The all time low number, since Rasmussen began reporting it in October 2001, came in March 2008, when the Consumer Index stood at 54.7, after five months of huge job losses and declines in gross domestic product. Now Rasmussen reports that 74% of Americans think we’re in a recession, even though we haven’t had lately the two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth required by the arbiter of these things, the National Bureau or Economic Research.
