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We also noted a trend in MA that we started noting in our previous jaunts to Virginia, South Carolina and NewHampshire. At this point, I think you’re going to find a lot of business owners who are just waiting and worrying about, you know, ‘now what?’”.
These numbers can help inform what might happen in, say, Texas, which has shown good outperformance and where people may be feeling relatively flush, versus NewHampshire, South Carolina and Massachusetts, which have lagged and where there may be an undercurrent of dissatisfaction as people head to primary voting.
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