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.
Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn
1 Aug 2023
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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Ryan Radia @RyanRadia
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15 percent of U.S. workers earn less than $15 per hour. (The 25th percentile hourly wage is $15 or higher in every U.S. state except Mississippi, where it’s $14.45.)
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That was not started during Biden's term. That's just creating distractions from the point, to address what has been a problem since... Decades. So let's stay on point. People blame Biden for the cost of diesel gas (🙄) And eggs, & his age, and boom = economy is bad Biden's fault
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What you don’t get, is somewhere there is a guy or gal making a lot of money off every one of these experiences. The economy is working for those people! That’s the problem! The economy is good. For the winners. The movers and shakers. That’s who pays the politicians. Not voters.
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That's right, @marwilliamson. We can't go back to the same old punditry of "just stop complaining, you're actually doing alright". It's exactly what cost the Dems 2016.
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Therefore I’m voting for Cornel West
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We saw a 25% increase in housing costs when Republicans changed the tax code to make it more profitable to own a second home. R's voted down $35 insulin and student debt relief. It takes 2 chambers to pass legislation. R's are holding this country hostage. Not the first time.
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He responds to other responses but not this one.
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Some people with means think “back to normal” = something positive & good, & that everyone should be grateful & happy, even if that ‘normal’ for most of those people is still just awful. They also ‘forget’ how easily stats can be twisted & used for any reason or message at all.
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