As Biden abandons 'Bidenomics,' Harris makes a different case before Black voters

[Valletta]

Harris' job approval rating is also upside down with voters. She had a 52% disapproval rating nationally in a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll in March. A bare majority of Black voters, 51%, approved in the same poll.

As Biden abandons 'Bidenomics,' Harris makes a different case before Black voters

Vice President Kamala Harris heads to the battleground state to make an urgent case to voters who delivered a surprise victory in Georgia for Biden.

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People just couldn't be fooled by the Biden rhetoric because they knew their pay was not keeping up with the high price of groceries and rent. Also remember in the debates when Kamala called Joe out for opposing the busing of black children to white schools?

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Typically, any form of "<insert_name_here>omics" isn't going to be enough to win on, by itself, unless the purported economic benefits positively impact a wide enough swath of people.

I dare say that Bidenomics does not. When you hear it touted, it tends to focus almost exclusively job reports, specifically the "new jobs added" metric.

For the first two years, those numbers basically equate to a wash. A bunch of jobs that were lost due to covid closures being regained once things reopened isn't the "win" it's touted as on paper.

For the last two years, having full time jobs that were lost, being replaced with people working multiple part time jobs isn't the huge win it's advertised as. Nor are publicly funded projects that, while creating temporary employment, aren't permanent.

Prior to covid, we'd been adding around 2-2.5 million jobs a year going back to 2010...obviously there was a massive drop off where we lost 9.3 million during 2020. The predictable massive rebound in 2021 & 2022, followed by the taper down back to the "norm".

The only people who may see it as a true "benefit" are people who were completely unemployed before, and now have a permanent full time job, but that's not a large enough number of people to swing an election or change overall perception of "how the economy" is doing.

For a person who had to take on a 2nd job, or had their full time employment disappear and had to replace with a lower paying job or 2 part time jobs, they're likely not as jazzed about the touted benefits of "Bidenomics"