Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling the following issues?
38% approve; 61% disapprove; 2% don't knowThe economy
34% approve; 65% disapprove; 2% don't knowInflation
30% approve; 60% disapprove; 2% don't knowImmigration
Robert F Kennedy, Jr - 47% favorable; 43% unfavorableI'm going to read you the names of several individuals. Please tell me whether you have a generally favorable or unfavorable opinion of each one. If you've never heard of one,
please just say so
Joe Biden 38%How would you vote if the candidates were:
Immigration/border security 31%What is the biggest failure of the Biden administration?
Personal characteristics (Big mouth/style/divisiveness/not unifying/irritating to the other side/social media/personal traits/corruption/dishonest/low character) 23%What was the biggest failure of the Trump administration? [
Excellent 4%On a scale of excellent, good, only fair and poor, how would you rate economic
conditions today?
Better off 22%Are you better off or worse off financially today than you were four years ago, or about
the same?
Yes - 37%Do you think Joe Biden has the mental soundness to serve effectively as president, or
not?
Yes - 49%Do you think Donald Trump has the mental soundness to serve effectively as president,
or not?
Always legal - 35%Which of the following statements best describes your view on abortion?
SCALE: 1. Abortion should always be legal 2. Abortion should be legal most of the
time 3. Abortion should be illegal except under certain circumstances, such as rape,
incest, and to save the life of the mother 4. Abortion should always be illegal 5. (Don't
know)
Banning abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy? Favor 38%; Oppose 58%; Don't know 4%Some states have laws that ban abortion after a certain number of weeks into pregnancy. Would you favor or oppose the following bans in your state, with exceptions for medical emergencies:
Legal 68%Mifepristone is an FDA-approved prescription medication used to end a pregnancy -- do
you think access to this medication should be legal or illegal?
Statistics: Posted by highdesert — Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:00 am
Statistics: Posted by highdesert — Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:28 pm
Agree, but the dems and biden won’t budge. They will blame us for not supporting their agenda. We won’t be seen as people wanting change and reform. From my perspective, don’t blame us, blame yourselves for not seeing the better path. There’s going to be some angry defensive dem remarks here as the campaign progresses.Ditto. The biggest threat to America is the Two Party System that has evolved. I do, however, think that Kennedy and his big money running mate are gonna hurt Biden much more than they will hurt Trump and I'm hoping that makes Biden re analyze the agenda and platform to bring more people on board.Side note, I’m going to watch with interest the third party development. Kennedy would definitely benefit from joining the libertarian party even with a wealthy running partner. I’m not a fan of the rich elites running our country, but if they help take down the two party monopoly I won’t mind too much.
VooDoo
https://www.persuasion.community/p/teixeiraIt's definitely not the case that working class voters woke up one day and realized this strange thing was happening with the Democratic Party who, for no apparent reason, decided it was going to embrace neoliberalism. The Democrats were reacting, in a sense, to the failure of their own model of economic policy and governance which obtained in the ‘70s. There was a sense in which the model had exhausted itself. And as Reagan immortally put it, government was one of the problems, not the solution. Democrats had to figure out a way to deal with it. It certainly wasn't as simple as just talking louder about their model, because they realized it wasn't popular. So in the ‘90s, they did really come to embrace this version of neoliberalism that's much softer and more redistributed. And you can characterize that as “compensate the losers.”
There's a very interesting paper by Suresh Naidu, et al on how it moved toward this compensate the losers model—which working class people actually aren't that interested in. This is a mistake that I think a lot of educated, relatively affluent voters make, because they think what voters really want is they just want the welfare state; they just want people to give them a lot of stuff. But what they really liked about the welfare state after World War II wasn't just that there were decent social programs but also a dynamic economy that was growing pretty fast and provided opportunity for people. When the model that produces that growth falters, they're going to look around for something else. And so Democrats thought they needed not just more welfare programs, they needed actually a growth program that would be very effective in the economy and then provide the benefits that they could then redistribute to people. And who knows where that would go? It eventually may get people back on the side of government spending in a more Keynesian model, who knows, but that was their adjustment to it. And the problem with that is even though it worked pretty well, in the ‘90s, particularly in the five years between 1995 and 2000 (if you look at the data, it's very clear this was one of the best times for wages and incomes for working class people), the whole thing seemed to slow down and then ultimately crash in the 2000s.
The Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism wasn't completely frivolous, it was an attempt to come to terms with the changes that have taken place in the country. The problem is, in the end, it didn't work that well as policy and it didn't really repair their connections to the working class. And then you go into the 2000s. And the Democratic Party, not only at least up until the time of Biden doesn't really change his economic model too much, but it actually moves in a cultural direction that's even more out of sync with working class voters. And that's kind of where we are today.
Statistics: Posted by highdesert — Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:40 am
Statistics: Posted by highdesert — Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:11 am
Ditto. The biggest threat to America is the Two Party System that has evolved. I do, however, think that Kennedy and his big money running mate are gonna hurt Biden much more than they will hurt Trump and I'm hoping that makes Biden re analyze the agenda and platform to bring more people on board.Side note, I’m going to watch with interest the third party development. Kennedy would definitely benefit from joining the libertarian party even with a wealthy running partner. I’m not a fan of the rich elites running our country, but if they help take down the two party monopoly I won’t mind too much.
Statistics: Posted by sikacz — Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:10 am
Statistics: Posted by VodoundaVinci — Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:01 am
This would be ideal, but I don’t see the dems being pragmatic on this. They will continue to push their gun agenda.Yup, this could very well be another 1992 election where incumbent George HW Bush lost to Clinton because of Ross Perot and 2000 when Al Gore lost to George W Bush because of Ralph Nader. As I mentioned, Kennedy, West and Stein are left wing 3rd party candidates, so they'll take votes from Biden. A few antivaxxer Trump supporters might support Kennedy.Biden is toast unless he really revamps his/the Democrats platform. What a mess.
VooDoo
Democrats need to revamp their platform and talk about issues important to working class voters like the inflated price of goods, immigration and crime. Polling shows that working class voters see Trump solving those problems and not Biden. Biden is hoping to replay the 2020 election where he won and not change anything in his campaign, we're a different country post-pandemic and the main issue isn't Trump like it was in 2020. When almost half of voters support Biden because they're voting against Trump, calls into question how loyal they are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... s-paradox/On the flip side, Republican pollster Whit Ayres said in an interview, Trump has bundled together all the resentments felt by voters experiencing both economic decline and cultural estrangement. “His message is anti-expertise, anti-immigration, anti-intellectual, anti-media and anti-establishment at a time when many jobs have been sent overseas, particularly blue-collar jobs, and when many families were ravaged by the opioid crisis,” Ayres said. “There is an audience for that message.”
That audience is especially large outside the major metropolitan areas, so what’s often cast as a class split may be even more a place divide. It’s described dramatically in a new book by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, “White Rural Rage.” Political scientist Daniel Schlozman, co-author with Sam Rosenfeld of the forthcoming book “The Hollow Parties,” said in an interview that one of the most important contributors to polarization is the gulf between urban/suburban America and small-town/rural America. Given the workings of the Senate and the electoral college, that gives the GOP outsize influence in elections and government.
One telling example is West Virginia. In 1980, it was one of only six states (plus the District of Columbia) to support Jimmy Carter over Ronald Reagan. Now, West Virginia is one of the most Republican states in the union. Another telltale: North and South Dakota had four Democratic senators in 2004; now, they’re all Republicans. This only underscores the ironies of Bidenism. The Brookings study makes clear that the biggest beneficiaries of Biden’s investments live not in loyally Democratic metro areas but smaller “micropolitan areas.” Brookings found that such places “account for about 25% of the nation’s employment-distressed population, but have secured 50% of all strategic sector investments going to distressed counties since 2021.”
Statistics: Posted by highdesert — Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:50 am