(11-24-2024, 11:23 AM)TDOSS Wrote:

(11-24-2024, 11:06 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I agree that a lot of the problems Biden/Harris had was failure to communicate.  For 3-1/2 years, we had a President who could not go out and sell his own policies to the American people.  Then when Harris came in, and she was asked if she would have done anything different, she couldn't come up with anything.  A very large part of being President is selling your ideas to the American people.  Biden got these big expensive programs passed, and then he seemed to think he was done.  No need to go out and explain it.  No need to go out and sell it.  And Harris was no better.

I know a lot of the inflation was caused by supply chain disruptions due to the Covid epidemic.  And a lot of it was also caused by paying people to not work.  Both Trump and Biden did that.  But all people see is that the price of their groceries has gone up and they are getting squeezed financially.  

The Presidency is a political job.  It takes a politician to do it well.  Biden and Harris were lousy politicians.

Everyone with a bit of sense knew what caused inflation, then there was those on the right who simply blamed Biden without a shred of evidence.

It worked.

But in the end, sadly, whatever the cause, people will often vote with their wallets, not reality.

For many Americans, their wallets, or more accurately, what what's left in them at the end of the week, is reality of the harshest kind.  They may not understand economics, but they know the cost of groceries.   If one candidate had his/her head buried in the sand, why are you surprised that voters gravitated towards the candidate who was at least acknowledging the problem?

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