Exactly!
What we've got here is more than the fact that consumer confidence is a lagging indicator, iow everyone's glum until all they got more money than they can stand. We've got a dem press with an agenda. The reverse was true in '00 where we had a big time collapse with a fawning press that was indignant that anyone would dare to "talk down" the economy by noticing the market crash and failing businesses.
I certainly understand that negatives will be emphasized and overstated by the MSM when there is a Republican administration. But inferring the wrong message from the data and publicizing it will blow up in our faces.