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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden is truly helping working people. What will it take for more voters to get that?
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-09-25-working-class-joe/
Tomorrow, Joe Biden will join striking UAW workers on a picket line, the first president ever to do so. Im told the decision was controversial among Biden advisersisnt the president supposed to be a neutral broker?but it was the right decision. The auto companies, like most of corporate America, are awash in profits, while workers are losing jobs, wages, and economic security. Bidens entire program aims at righting that imbalance. So why not display that class solidarity in the most vivid fashion possible?
Its also smart and overdue politics. There are more workers than bosses. Biden is underwater in most polls, especially on the economy. This, despite the fact that inflation has been tamed, the economy is at full employment, and wages on average are up slightly. But for most voters, the basics havent changed for the better. The exception to that, however, is unionized workers.
Bidens several public-investment laws serve as a full-employment act for the building trades, extending into much of the next decade. In Bidens TV ads, how about a real-life construction worker, and a real-life autoworker, telling what Biden has done for them and why they support him. How about a stressed parent telling how much difference the Child Tax Credit made in their lives, and why a vote for Biden and a Democratic Congress is a vote to restore and extend it.
Our House, Senate, and state legislative candidates are significantly outperforming Biden and make every branch competitive in 2024, pollster Stan Greenberg told me. The polling in the battleground states shows him running significantly better than 2020. Critically, he can run stronger if he stops talking about their accomplishments and makes the election a future choice with the Republicans, on the very same issues he has been speaking about.
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MutantAndProud
(855 posts)Is both contrary to the original designs of our country and that the administration is willing, if necessary, to nationalize them for the protection of human rights.
That is basically what the incoming generations are asking for, since they were never allowed to unionize.
marble falls
(58,681 posts)Chainfire
(17,757 posts)inthewind21
(4,616 posts)span better than a graes and basic civics lesson.
leftstreet
(36,128 posts)What percentage of people are they polling who are retired, disabled, unpaid home caregivers, unemployed, underemployed, etc.
I mean I don't know
TexasDem69
(2,069 posts)That inflation has been tamed. Although core inflation is slowing, that doesnt account for food and energy prices, and most folks think those continue to rise, and thats what the average worker sees. I know my food prices are way up from a few years ago. And the housing market is still a disaster. Wed like to move to a different area so that commutes are better but cant affford to give up our current interest rate for the 7%+ rates that are currently available.
Not to say any of this is Bidens fault, but theres a reason the vast majority of people think the economy isnt great right now.
Recycle_Guru
(2,973 posts)MusicLikeDirt
(27 posts)erased about $160,000 worth of my student loans: entire amount FORGIVEN.
President Biden gets my vote.
senseandsensibility
(17,569 posts)which is why I keep criticizing them. They are really failing.