Americans are choosing a president against a backdrop of slow but steady growth that has managed to restore the economy from the crushing setback of the Great Recession. The unemployment rate is a low 4.9 percent. Fifty-three percent of voters say the economy is "poor," while 46 percent say "good," according to the poll, conducted Oct. 20-24. Seventy-three percent of Hillary Clinton supporters say that the economy is good; just 16 percent of Donald Trump supporters say so. And while 60 percent of whites say the economy is poor, 60 percent of nonwhites call it good.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 04, 2016 20:47 UTC