Biden won places that are thriving. Trump won ones that are hurting.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Are you better off than you were four years ago? That question has been at the heart of presidential campaigns since President Ronald Reagan first asked it in 1980. The general thinking has been that voters who are doing well would vote to reelect a sitting president. That’s not what happened in 2020.

This time around, those who were better off voted for a change in the White House.

The parts of America that have seen strong job, population and economic growth in the past four years voted for Joe Biden, economic researchers found. In contrast, President Trump garnered his highest vote shares in counties that had some of the most sluggish job, population and economic growth during his term.

Trump fared well among voters who said the economy was their top concern, and he even won votes in places that didn’t fare particularly well under his presidency. This is perhaps a continuation of the 2016 election, when Trump won a huge share of places that had struggled under President Barack Obama. Democrats tended to view the 2020 election more as a referendum on Trump, especially his response to the pandemic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/15/biden-trump-economy/

[Karma13612]

1. But Trumps voters

Said they thought he was doing a good job with the economy.

Interesting. His voters don’t even know their own economy is in the toilet.

Yea, makes sense.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. He convinced them that if the stock market was

doing well they should be.

[Karma13612]

3. Yup

They were brainwashed to completely ignore their own personal economic problems because he convinced them to just use the stock-market as a guide.

Frightening really.

[bdamomma]

11. do they

have jobs on Wall street, dumb deluded people they don't have jobs themselves. Trump hates his supporters it is all a scam and a con.

But they will give the con money which will go in his pocket.

[The Genealogist]

4. They've been voting against their own economic interest for ages

I don't buy this economic insecurity crap. They like him because he hates all the same people they do.

[smirkymonkey]

5. +1000

[triron]

8. Fear and misinformation is what they buy into.

[triron]

7. They will believe any BS coming out of the Trump administration.

Hard to change this level of stupidity.

[The Genealogist]

10. He tells them what they want to hear.

They've been trained for 30 years what to react to, and Dump's swamp buddies have taught him well how to exploit it.

It is all the liberals/non-white/foreigner/gay/non-Christians' fault that your life is crap. Anyone but the tiny handful of pasty old ultra-rich white dudes who have gamed the system so they get all the bucks.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. It's like the fools who watch Cramer or other stock shows-that information is already stale.

.

By the time they hear that 'advice,' the money boys are already positioned to take the poorer people's investment money.

.

[OnDoutside]

6. West Virginia is crying out for special attention from Democrats.

Joe Manchin (already disgracefully maligned here by some) is throwing shapes that says he is looking for investment into WV in return for support, and he should get it. West Virginians have been crying out for support and no one answers that call. The party that is seen to pump investment into WV will reap the rewards.

[Volaris]

9. And what, exactly, does WV want help with?

[JI7]

12. coal jobs

[Volaris]

13. Well..

Fuck that.

[JI7]

14. This is misleading because cities tend to be wealthy but they have many

struggling minimum wage and gig type workers.

Most of these people voted for Biden.

It is true that the more liberal policies in these places make things better but lack of this support in right wing areas is becsuse of what they continually vote for .

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Simplistic Thought: Does that mean 'socialist places' thrive and 'capitalist places' tend to suffer?

.

If Biden is "The Socialist," that would mean that socialist-loving people voted for him and are doing well.


If Trump is the "Businessman," that means those who buy into that belief do so at their own peril.

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