The big question here is “will people vote for their best interests and go with Trump, even though he is a blowhard and antagonistic (to be mild), or go against their best interest again and vote Biden (who’s also a scumbag, feebleminded, and shady AF)?”
If Trump wins, more voters foresee better finances, staying out of war — CBS News poll
With views of things in America continuing to be bad and now hitting their most negative marks of the year, one might expect an incumbent president to trail in a pre-election poll — as Joe Biden does in this one. But that’s only half the story. The other half is that Donald Trump holds distinct advantages in his own right when voters look forward: More voters think they’d be better off financially if Trump wins in 2024, and more voters think it’s Trump who can keep the U.S. out of a war, if he wins.
Americans have long described financial setbacks because of inflation and interest rates. Those who feel they’re worse off financially are backing Trump. And this isn’t just punitive toward Mr. Biden — those voters overwhelmingly think they will be financially better off if Trump wins.
That is very ugly for Biden. Will voters vote in their best interest financially in the states Trump needs to win? How about perhaps in some like NY, which got close to electing a republican governor? Maine? Colorado? Oregon and Portland with all their issues? Obviously, many states like California will elect Biden, even as they move from California because Democrat policies are crushing their pocketbooks.
The poll also shows that voters think Biden’s polices, and, to an extension, Democrat policies, favor the rich in the same way as if Trump and Republicans were in charge.
It also goes overseas, where Americans think Trump would be much better at supporting Israel. 47% think Trump would be better at international peace, while only 31% think Biden’s better. 43% say Biden would decrease stability. Of course, when it comes to Ukraine, Biden wins in a landslide. And
So way more think Biden will get the US into a war. But, will this make a difference in November 2024? Will it drive votes?
How about that 73% are saying that things are not going well in America right now? The number was 65% in January. 33% say the economy is fairly bad, and another 33% say it is very bad. 28% say they expect the economy to be slowing, but not in recession next year, with another 31% say in recession. Will this make a difference? If Trump is smart he will be less bombastic and focus on the economy. That’s it. He won’t, so, there’s just no telling.
No. People will continue to vote as they always have. Party line. The number of voters who consider issues thoughtfully and rationally is diminishingly small. In those circumstances, each party will select their most extreme voices to represent them. Our current winner take all system reinforces the extremes with 51% forcing their will onto the other 49%. We used to have a constitution that prevented that. We used to have power sharing and 2/3rd votes. No longer. Modern politics is a national death spiral. The only political message that gets through is anger.
Doom and Gloom. It is the inevitable direction the entire world is taking.
Anger and poverty and ill-will, wars, famines. Around the world the people are trying to destroy the cultures of individual nations. I once thought this was China but I have come increasingly to believe it is the powers that be as in the ONE GOVERNMENT movement that wants to replace France and Germany and England and the USA with a world wide government.
The world is fubar. I guess if you love authoritarian governments that tell you what to do and what to think you will love the new world order. Of course those that fight for the new world order think that T H E Y know whats best for all of us. Until they don’t.
Biden WILL defend Israel from Russia and islamic countries that support Hamas. I don’t have a problem with that.
Gee Teach aren’t you going to mention “baby killing”? You used to say that abortion and the sanctity of human life was THE core conservative value.
I think the Republican path to continued victories is to push abortion bans, deny the 2020 election and most of all, march in lockstep with Donald Trump!
Abortion legal up to week 16 = a BAN (actual Virginia proposal)
Abortion legal up to week 20 = A huge victory for abortion rights and “enshrines” a right to abortion in Ohio.
These are not principled arguments. They are literally only a 4 week difference. It is total disingenuous BS by the democratic party-controlled national media to picture one as a “Ban” and the other as a “victory”. What we are seeing, aside from the lying, is the free exchange of ideas and politicians seeking the consent of the governed for the laws they enact. There is no such thing as settled law. Only a constant give and take that results in what we have right now. It’s a feature, not a bug.