Americans have never been this conflicted about the economy's direction

The partisan difference in opinion on the US economy has never been this wide in the history of at least one major survey.
Various surveys of consumer and business confidence have shown decisive improvement in sentiment since the election. Both consumers and business owners are looking forward to tax cuts, and businesses anticipate a lighter regulatory burden.
But Republicans are a lot more excited than Democrats, according to the University of Michigan. Its preliminary consumer sentiment index