Hi. I’m puzzling over something in historical right-track/wrong-track US polls. Generally, the sentiment is negative (wrong track) and this is normal. As I write this, it’s at 57.6% negative, which is about normal or even low. But in August 2011, the wrong-track number leaped to 75% negative quite suddenly.
I’m wracking my brain trying to come up with what changed in that particular quarter. Sandy Hook wasn’t until the following year. I can’t come up with a political event right about then (Obamacare’s passage and the GOP getting a boost from it was the previous year/election). The other sharp sentiment jump (-74.9%) in mid October 2013 seems obviously tried to the government getting shut down, but there wasn’t a shutdown in 2011. I must be forgetting something obvious for that period. Anybody?