What many people mean is that the country was humming along fine. The economy was fine, there were jobs, etc. People always give credit to the President for things they didn't actually do. It is unfair but it is what it is. This was always one of the pitfalls of Biden becoming president after COVID.
There are now 10 million vacant jobs in the U.S. vs 7 million before Covid. Growth and job creation are better than 2019. Inflation is down to acceptable levels.
In the NYTIMES/Siena poll, 51% of respondents rated economic conditions as poor and 23% rated them as only fair. That is 3/4ths of the entire country. Your position is that 3/4ths of the entire country don't understand their own economic situation? Or that the poll is bad because of the number of vacant jobs in the U.S.?
don't know the numbers, but dem senate/governor candidates did very well in 2022 even as the house ("national environment") was narrowly gop.
True, but they were all pretty much swing states, Montana on the other hand, is not far of what you call deep red, not to mention, the popular dem governor tried to run in 2020 for senate, and sort of got crushed, yes he did run against an incumbent, but still.
1. You mentioned the availability of jobs during the Trump era, and so I brought a number from 2023-24 about the availability of jobs. I agree, though, that it's not the best measure for the health of the economy, but you brought it up, and so I responded to it.
There will always be people who say that. What was that number in 2019? 2006? This number is never zero.
Yes.
Of course, just as the unemployment rate went from 30% or something(according to Trump) to below even the statistics they didn't believe in couple of days ago, Sean Spicer even said it was all a joke, and the media just laughed...
I remember that moment very well.
She should stick around until the convention just to annoy him, at a time when when he's on the hook for nearly half a billion in fees and will be going through one trial after another.
That's pretty much spot on. Even though the economy and stock market are doing well by most metrics, inflation and the cost of living remain a big problem. Therefore nothing Biden does between now and Nov. will change that and he, as the incumbent, will get blamed by voters.
she has to at least stay in past super tuesday. There will be so much pressure to stop it when he wins big on Tuesday. If she folds early, we are straight into the GE and I don't think that's good for Biden.
The economy, for basically everyone, is better now than 4 years ago, but somehow, the american people collectively devoloped amnesia, covid and shutdowns didn't exist, and so, the old Reagan slogan is actually working, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Well yes, 4 years ago we were in lockdown so I'd say its better at the moment. The trouble with today's economy is that the gulf between the haves and have nots is continually widening and a lot of people continue to struggle with the basics - housing, food, student loan debt etc. If you're underwater financially, you're likely to blame the current government as opposed to those who haven't been around for several years. This of course benefits Trump.
And yet 60%+ of people don't agree with this. See my posts above.
People tend to give Republicans the benefit of the doubt, but not democrats. They grade Trump on a curve, and that applies to other GOPers.
But factually speaking, you agree its all nonsense, right?
This won't matter to most given that inflation has gone up sharply in recent years. Even with inflation down a bit in recent months under Biden, the rise in the cost of living remains a huge problem. This is why Biden won't be given credit for the economy, because most people are anecdotally not seeing it realized at their level.
That's correct. You can't blame Trump or Biden for the economic volatility related to the pandemic given that it was a once in a lifetime economic shock. What people will blame Biden for is being the incumbent when they are struggling due to pandemic related inflation, which continues to be high today compared to where it was during the Obama/Trump years.
Or maybe, the polls, not unlike 2022, underestimate those who will vote to protect womens right, and democracy, yet again.
I wonder if they'll think the same at the end of next year when their tax bills go up, that's when Trump's tax cuts expire for ordinary people but not for corporations.
Thats the thing. People keeps repeating that polls failed as they were projecting a red wave. But it was the media that spun that idea
Money and weapon/ammunition are not the same. Having more money means nothing right now. It take years to increase the production of weapons and ammunition after decades of downsizing.
Britain and France are both nuclear powers and Germany's allies. Of course Germany can take a more active role if it wants. As can any other NATO ally.
I don't know about the size of France and England's nuclear arsenal. So far it's always been the nuclear umbrella of the US which protected us.
Speaking as someone who shares a border with Putin, I'd rather have the safety of the US (sans Trump) in NATO...
The US would also be annihilated if it attacked Russia with nuclear weapons, that's literally the point of MAD.
But Russia too...
France has 290 nukes, UK 225 and that's only the official numbers.
Republicans were so incensed by a black man winning the POTUS they began assigning blame to him or claiming he was this or that like...
But Trump has no weaknesses?
Obama basically broke the Republican party up.
