Posted on 10/16/2024 6:41:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For a country that seems evenly divided over politics and polarized about many cultural issues, a durable majority does agree about one thing: They don’t like the Biden presidency.
And despite the machinations that resulted in President Joe Biden’s not being on the ballot this election season, his unpopularity is still the mood music of this election.
From his border policy to the economy he has been presiding over to turmoil overseas, there isn’t a lot about the Biden years that voters love in this moment. It’s why former President Donald Trump has basically a 50-50 chance to return to the White House, just four years after voters fired him.
Of course, the reason Trump’s chances aren’t greater than 50-50 is that Democrats finally read the room and switched candidates from Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris. Bottom line: It’s clearer now in hindsight — and perhaps it would have been regardless of that ill-fated debate performance — that Biden simply didn’t have a winning hand to run on. All he had was harnessing backlash over Jan. 6 and abortion, and while both issues do resonate with a significant chunk of the electorate, those two issues alone couldn’t get him to the finish line.
But while Biden isn’t on the ballot anymore, voters are certainly feeling his presence. If there’s one thing it’s clear they don’t want, it’s a candidate who reminds them of Biden.
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” has basically a 50-50 chance to return to the White House, just four years after voters fired him”
F Chuck really is a proper asshole
Had Biden governed competently, he would have won re-election.
I think Harris will cost Harris the election.
Deflection #1
IMHO, Biden didn’t win the first time.
Well at least Trumps own party didn’t fire him.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
There are thousands of variables in play, and they carry different weights depending on who is doing the counting. It’s rarely so simplistic that X causes this or that. The importance of X is mostly in the eye of the beholder.
Chuckie sounds worried.
The importance of X is mostly in the eye of the beholder.
Wars are won with little things.
Poor Chucky, his Party is losing.
Oh look, they are already asking who’s to blame.
You might want to start with the assassination plotters.
Then, you might consider yourself Chuck and your whole gaslighting racket.
The Democrat Party might have figured that out if they had a free and fair primary or an open selection process once Diaper Joe was given the Johnny Fontaine bandleader treatment by Don Pelosi.
So, they’ll scapegoat President Biden if VP Harris loses, but my thing is... it’s not Biden’s personality, it is the policies and resulting problems that are unpopular (high cost of living, etc). Harris can’t point to one thing she’d have done differently, her words.
Harris will cost Harris the election.
Hmmmm! Didn’t realize she needed assistance.
Harris might as well be ‘Blank’. It is all about the ‘D’ for most of her voters.
We’re talkin’ galactic stupidity here!
Harris is Biden with heels and more funds.
Same intellect, or lack thereof.
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