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Chart: The Economist Consider the performance of two baskets of stocks: one formed of “Trump winners” (the 43% of the S&P 500 that outperformed the index after his election victory); the other ...

Every week YouGov polls Americans on behalf of The Economist. Chuck Schumer, the Democrats’ leader in the Senate, enraged many of his colleagues by voting for a Republican spending bill last week.