During the last two presidential elections, pollsters have asked a variety of related questions to gauge whether Americans think the candidates care about them.

This month, for example, Quinnipiac asked likely voters whether they think Clinton and Trump care about “average Americans.” By a seven-point margin, they thought she does; and by an eleven-point margin, they thought he does not.

I haven’t been able to find a perfect comparison, but it looks like both Obama and Romney did better in 2012. In a CBS poll of likely voters in October 2012, Romney was even on “does [he] understand the needs and problems of people like yourself” while Obama was 21 points up.

My thanks to my AEI colleague Heather Sims for digging up several polls on these questions.