Incumbents generally have a huge advantage. Combine that with the fact that most people can still come home and stream the latest shit, eat, put gas in their SUV, and occasionally vacation, I think Biden has a clear advantage.We'll see what happens in November
I mean, I won't do that, but that's not to say that others won't.
78% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck.
They do have a particular talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, don't they?
I get what you're saying. However Biden is much less popular now than he was 4 years ago. I'm very lucky that I work for a company that has taken care of it's employees as inflation / cost of living has exploded over the past few years. A lot of people aren't that lucky and even if they hated Trump, they were better off 4 years ago than they are now unfortunately.
Maybe I'm in a bubble, things for me and people I talk to everywhere are just about the same.
78% of Americans are idiots who would be living paycheck to paycheck regardless.
50% of millionaires live "paycheck to paycheck" those surveys are highly biased on "feelings." Not hard math. I had a neighbor who got $600 a month in "income" she goes to the store and just spends until it's gone, meanwhile I get by on just rent and bus passes, maybe $200 a month, and save the rest.
Probably 90% of Americans have televisions and phones that are less than two years old. It's not the money, its our financial IQ.
concur that prioritization is a problem, but the luxury of a 300 dollar TV one time purchase doesnt offset the fact that rent is an entire salary, every single month.
Rent being your entire salary isn't why 55-63% (see here) of people are living paycheck to paycheck. It's normal middle class people doing normal things. Rent, car payment, insurance, cell phone bill, Starbucks, Netflix, Disney+, etc. All those stupid decisions add up...
How much do TVs and phones cost at the moment? TVs aren't overly expensive and it's a one time purchase and a lot of phone plans give you free or hugely discounted new phones every few years. Yes, some people are dumb with their money. However, that doesn't change the fact rent, auto insurance, interest rates for everything (mortgage, cars, credit cards and so on ), and gas prices, just to name a few are rising at historical rates. Do I think Trump will fix that? No. Other people for some reason think he will. Let's not forget, Trump beat Clinton in Michigan and won the presidency because blue collar union democrats in that state jump shipped and voted republican because they thought he would repeal and replace Obama Care and lower their health care costs. So it has happened before. I hope he doesn't win in November but I'm not confident.
