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This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior writer for economics Shawn Donnan explores why Americans are pessimistic about the economy and whether a new administration will change anything. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

One question that has relentlessly loomed over this election year is why, exactly, voters are so anxious about an economy that by measures like growth and employment looks to be in pretty good shape.