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True Dough

(17,091 posts)
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 01:14 PM Apr 2022

Will the economy cause the Dems to feel voters' wrath in the midterms?

Politico's latest article is warning in the affirmative, even though much of it is due to global factors beyond the federal government's control. What do you think the Dems should do, or is there any way out of a mess that is layers deep the world over?


The professionals who track American attitudes toward the economy say they can see the trouble coming.

Angry voters slammed by higher prices and scarred by two years of fighting the pandemic are poised to punish Democrats in midterm elections, according to some of the leading experts in consumer sentiment and behavior. And with inflation persisting and Russia’s war on Ukraine stoking uncertainty, there are indications that public sentiment is getting worse, not better, posing a growing threat to Democrats’ already slim chances of holding onto Congress, they say.

The widely watched University of Michigan consumer confidence survey recently touched its lowest level in almost 11 years. An Associated Press/NORC survey showed that almost 70 percent of Americans think the economy is in poor shape, and 81 percent of those in a poll released by CNBC see a recession coming this year. Gallup found the share of Americans citing inflation as the top issue is now at its highest level since the 1980s.



Inside the West Wing, Biden and his top advisers know that the window to change the economic narrative through executive action is rapidly closing, according to a senior Biden aide and an outside adviser. The options, they say, mostly include whatever can be done to ease oil prices, the biggest drag on the party right now. But even that could have only limited impact.


https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/09/angry-voters-biden-inflation-midterms-00024218
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llashram

(6,265 posts)
1. if the vote
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 01:18 PM
Apr 2022

goes to the GQP, then Americans will have shot themselves in the goddamn foot. And if in 24 the same? SHAME on the weakness of Americans...but millions followed Hitler and his lies. The economy got skewed by trumpanomics.

jmbar2

(4,832 posts)
2. I am sick of this negative framing by/about Dems
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 01:19 PM
Apr 2022

No matter who well we are doing, or how challenging the difficulties the government is trying to solve, the polls and the press frame everything as a negative.

We need to reject this kind of polling/ framing vigorously. Times are tough. No government can instantly solve problems this serious, all at once.

Our government is doing a pretty good job of managing multiple extreme crises simultaneously.

The repubs have proposed NOTHING to solve these challenges. Change the frame.

peggysue2

(10,811 posts)
4. Listening to a podcast yesterday about GOP strategy
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 01:34 PM
Apr 2022

Main issues they think will stick? Inflation (which is global in nature but no matter) and the tried and true immigration fear-mongering bc replacement theory is a hot issue for the base.

Going to be a wicked campaign one way or the other.

childfreebychoice

(476 posts)
5. Yes. I told someone grousing on about high prices, that this is worldwide issue,they didn't care
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 01:45 PM
Apr 2022

American media only presents as if this is only an American prob. '22 will be about pocketbook issues, crt nonsense, abortion, lgbt, book banning, and very little about t*

Phoenix61

(16,951 posts)
7. No it won't but what will is the
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 01:51 PM
Apr 2022

“liberal media” ignoring every single good thing we do. If they harped on and on and on about the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years or how those being crushed by student debt have been in a payment deferred status for months and will continue to be so for months we’d be just fine. But they aren’t going to so we have to. We have to start bragging about all the good legislation we’ve passed. Call out DeSatan when he calls himself DeSanta and tell everyone that money came from the infrastructure bill passed by us and signed by Biden. Blast every repuke who voted against helping Ukraine, lowering the cost of insulin and voted against Jackson as a Supreme Court justice. Look what Zelensky has done by effectively harnessing the power of media! Yes, the Ukrainians are badass MF’s which we all know because they have been as effective getting that message out as they have been kicking Russia’s ass. We could learn a lot from them.

childfreebychoice

(476 posts)
8. Yes. I told someone grousing on about high prices, that this is worldwide issue,they didn't care
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 01:52 PM
Apr 2022

American media only presents as if this is only an American prob. '22 will be about pocketbook issues, crt nonsense, abortion, lgbt, book banning, and very little about t*

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doc03

(35,148 posts)
10. The economy is great, it's inflation and that is worse.
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 02:34 PM
Apr 2022

As long as I have a job I don't care. Inflation hurts everyone. That's Americans.

helpisontheway

(5,004 posts)
11. Yes..Inflation and Biden's approval numbers are going to be an uphill climb..For whatever
Sat Apr 9, 2022, 02:50 PM
Apr 2022

reason people believe the media and republican talking points. They are upset because everything costs more and they will blame the person in charge.

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