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Here’s something from Politico:
Voters say they don’t know very much about President Joe Biden’s major domestic spending initiatives. They don’t think they’re working. And they don’t give him credit for their benefits, anyway.
Those are among the key takeaways from a new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll about four major laws passed in the first two years of Biden’s administration — and the impact that spending has had on voters and the communities around them.
Jesus Christ.
Here is the president in Racine, Wisconsin, talking about his Investing in America Agenda! Send it to somebody you know who’s bad at knowing things.
Evan Hurst on Twitter right here.
@evanjosephhurst on Threads!
I have profiles those other places but I think I forgot how to log on.
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"Don't Jump!"
It is almost as if OHJB was reading my mind. Sometimes here at the mommy blog a nice time story like this invites non-comments filled with bleak pessimism and outright DEFEATISM.
When I see that kind of crap I start to wonder "Why bother? It's all gone to Hell. Why struggle against it all? Better to head over to the bridge, jump in and let the river carry me away to oblivion!"
But from now on I will follow that thought with an image of OHJB standing there beside me and telling me "DON'T JUMP!"
Thank you Joe. You've earned your wings today.
Evan's making a funny but it's true that a big part of winning an election is downstream word of mouth. Ads, yard signs, etc. all help, but nothing quite sways public opinion as much as conversations with people you know, even vaguely. You get a good sense of what matters to the individual, how to talk in their language, and what you can say to them that best spurs them to vote the way you want them to. Multiply that among millions of people and you can shift opinion for the entire election.
We can debate the reasons why, but too many voters consider it cringe to support Joe Biden. My theory is that discussions of higher prices are much simpler to have (look at all those viral photos of "ridiculous" store receipts) than wage increases. Message-wise, we have also given Trump a pass for his pandemic mismanagement ("that pandemic hit every country, not just ours!") but not Biden for the aftermath (which is essentially inflation--and which hit other countries harder than ours). It's an absurd result, but it's the effect of simple GOP storytelling and Democrats not doing that.
We can point to the facts--that Biden's economy is better than Trump's, even pre-pandemic, and yes Trump should own the pandemic too; Biden also passed a lot of popular legislation--but people aren't computers and won't absorb the facts the way they absorb a simple story. Tell it, tell it simply, and repeat it until everyone is sick of hearing it. If they're sick of hearing it, they're remembering it.
And now find a way to customize that story to the people you encounter on an individual basis.