Biden is (mostly) a good president and the economy is (mostly) great, but the evidence suggests that PEOPLE THINK Biden is a bad president and the economy is bad. This raises the question of where people get their ideas about politics, because it sure isn’t objective observation.
The Biden-Trump rematch is tied, 43-43, in our first Times/Siena poll of the cycle. Another 10 percent volunteered they wouldn't vote or would vote for someone else nytimes.com/2023/08/01/upsho…
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People get their "information" from their experience: 1) One in four Americans live with medical debt. 2) 1.3 million are rationing their insulin. 3) 18 million can't afford to fulfill the prescriptions their doctors give them. 4) Tens of millions have college loan debt. 5) A third of American workers live on less than $15/hr and half of them can't find a place to live. 6) Half of our seniors live on less than $$25k/yr 7 We have the highest poverty rate among all advanced democracies. I know. I know. If only more of them read The New York Times.

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All of these factors were true when Trump was president, yet people perceived the economy as doing well then (pre Covid). All of the metrics that made Trump’s economy strong are also present in the Biden economy.
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I know, right? the level of gaslighting chutzpa Stencil here is exhibiting is bordering on comical. The economy is PEOPLE. If the people are telling you the economy sucks, it sucks. If your numbers say it's good, then your numbers are wrong.
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Love you, Ma’am, but you are engaged with a silver spoon who does not engage in good faith.
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This thread reminds me of the time about 7 or 8 years ago one of my more privileged friends posted on Facebook, "But the stock market has hit new heights, I don't understand why people feel like things aren't going well"
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Those are not big enough numbers to account for winning the vote. Then again who is it controls the legislature?
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Every single one of those metrics has improved
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