SHOULD Biden run for a 2nd term? (11 Viewers)

[SteveSBrickNJ]

Biden has lost support from many people who voted for him in the past.
He is getting up there in age.
Here are a couple of sites I'd like to share...
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Octogenarian Biden begins new year facing age-old question on 2024 race

In the coming months, Biden faces a simple question: will he seek a second term at the end of which he would be 86?

www.theguardian.com

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Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll

A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. While Biden has trumpeted his legislative victories and ability to govern, the poll suggests relatively few U.S. adults give him high marks on either...

news.yahoo.com

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WHAT DO ANY OF YOU THINK?
IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEST SERVED BY HAVING PRESIDENT BIDEN RUN FOR ANOTHER TERM OR WOULD A DIFFERENT CANDIDATE BE BETTER?

 

[Snarky Sack]

Running belt lines?!?

Has your Scout Leader met Chris Hansen by any chance?

I am starting to see where your warped views on sexuality come from.

All the pent up anger too.

Four days. Sure.

It was a different time, CoolBrees. I was in the last of the boomers. We didn't expect the world to pad its corners for us. If I had gone home and complained to my dad about the hazing, there is no doubt that he would have responded with a story of his own of worse hazing, and ended it with "but here I am, just fine."

Having grown up in that time, I don't expect progressives to hold back their vitriol when I dare to have a different opinion, nor do I melt when they heap abuse on me. One of you was honest enough to admit that it was hazing. Like the beltlines, it was not a one time thing. But it's about as worrisome as a cloudy day for me.

Was it you who said "There is no greater oppression than labeling a group?" I have to copy and paste that somewhere for when I need a chuckle.

 

[brandon]

It was a different time, CoolBrees. I was in the last of the boomers. We didn't expect the world to pad its corners for us. If I had gone home and complained to my dad about the hazing, there is no doubt that he would have responded with a story of his own of worse hazing, and ended it with "but here I am, just fine."

Having grown up in that time, I don't expect progressives to hold back their vitriol when I dare to have a different opinion, nor do I melt when they heap abuse on me. One of your was honest enough to admit that it was hazing. Like the beltlines, it was not a one time thing. But it's about as worrisome as a cloudy day for me.

Was it you who said "There is no greater oppression than labeling a group?" I have to copy and paste that somewhere for when I need a chuckle.

 

[Snarky Sack]

Wow, did you make that yourself, Brandon? Nice!

See coolbreeze this is a good example. I hear nothing but whining and complaining from many posters on this board. Brandon posts this elaborate .gif to imply that I am the whiner.

It bothers me . . . not at all.

 

[brandon]

Wow, did you make that yourself, Brandon? Nice!

See coolbreeze this is a good example. I hear nothing but whining and complaining from many posters on this board. Brandon posts this elaborate .gif to imply that I am the whiner.

It bothers me . . . not at all.

I’m actually implying that you’ve got a lot of unaddressed trauma in your past that explains a lot about why you long for a strong father figure to punish those who hurt you.

 

[Snarky Sack]

I’m actually implying that you’ve got a lot of unaddressed trauma in your past that explains a lot about why you long for a strong father figure to punish those who hurt you.

Ok, so a more pseudo-intellectual personal attack, couched in pop psychology terms.

Even better!

@CoolBrees, are you taking notes?

 

[CoolBrees]

Notes? On what?

You getting dogwalked by Brandon and everyone else on this board?

And I have a job. So I can't post all day like you so don't get all up in your feels if I don't get back right away.

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

"At this point in his term...about 910 days in...Biden is the 2nd most unpopular President in modern history"
................this is a quote from here:
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Why is Joe Biden so unpopular?

In the past, a president’s standing has tended to improve along with conditions in the country. President Biden’s numbers haven’t budged.

www.yahoo.com

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

"At this point in his term...about 910 days in...Biden is the 2nd most unpopular President in modern history"
................this is a quote from here:
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Why is Joe Biden so unpopular?

In the past, a president’s standing has tended to improve along with conditions in the country. President Biden’s numbers haven’t budged.

www.yahoo.com

A fair question from the article:

Why there’s debate​

The U.S. was in much, much worse shape in 1979 — the year before Carter lost reelection to Ronald Reagan — than it is 2023. Inflation had skyrocketed by 13.3%, year-over-year; unemployment was stubbornly stuck around 6%; and the price of oil was in the process of doubling. Global shortages were so bad that Americans took to waiting in long lines — and occasionally punching each other — at their local gas stations.

In contrast, a gallon of gas today costs roughly 30% less than it did 12 months ago. At 3.6%, unemployment is on par with 50-year lows — and down by almost half since Biden took office. The U.S. economy added 4 million jobs over the past year. Inflation has cooled to 3% after peaking last summer at triple that rate. And America’s so-called “misery index” — a combination of unemployment and inflation — is lower now than it has been during 83% of all months since 1978. Recession fears are subsiding.

Meanwhile, as the Washington Monthly’s Bill Scher notes, illegal border crossings “have dropped by 70 percent in the last few weeks, according to the Department of Homeland Security, after Biden implemented a new border-management policy.” And “murder is down about 12 percent year-to-date in more than 90 cities that have released data for 2023, compared with data as of the same date in 2022,” according to crime data analyst Jeff Asher, writing in The Atlantic — a trend that could lead to “one of the largest annual percent changes in murder ever recorded.”

On top of that, Biden has delivered on several policy promises that poll pretty well with the public.

In the past, a president’s standing has tended to improve along with conditions in the country. Yet Biden’s numbers haven’t budged; since September 2022, his approval rating has remained mired around 40% while his disapproval rating has never broken out of the low-to-mid 50s.

The question is why. Is it something systemic — the way Americans are increasingly stuck in their own partisan media bubbles and unwilling to give presidents of the opposing party any credit? Is it the economy — the way certain indicators (such as real wages and the cost of services) have yet to fully recover even as the overall picture brightens?

Or is it Biden himself — his advanced age, his frequent gaffes, his ongoing family drama? And can the president turn things around in time for the 2024 election?

He doesn't answer the question, but he does speculates as to why Biden's "net approval" ratings are so low and it has to do with inflation. That is due to the effective campaign that the GOP has waged. They have convinced voters that global inflation is of Democrats making.

Partisanship might have permanently changed how we grade presidents.

“A survey question along the lines of, ‘Do you think economic conditions are good or bad?’ is answered more along the lines of, ‘Do you like the current president or not?’ In October 2020, just before President Trump lost re-election, Republicans' economic sentiment was 26 points higher than Democrats' in the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey. In February 2021, after Biden took office, Republicans rated the economy 28 points worse. A similar pattern occurred between the parties around the 2016 and 2008 elections, when partisan control shifted hands. We seem to be experiencing something similar right now.” — Neil Irwin, Axios

I believe his ratings are affected more by the extremist than anything else.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

"At this point in his term...about 910 days in...Biden is the 2nd most unpopular President in modern history"
................this is a quote from here:
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Why is Joe Biden so unpopular?

In the past, a president’s standing has tended to improve along with conditions in the country. President Biden’s numbers haven’t budged.

www.yahoo.com

That should tell you how terrible a candiate Trump was/is.

 

[el caliente]

If it came down to Biden, Kennedy, Trump, or DeSantis, I would probably vote Kennedy. There is some about that guy that sets him apart from the rest. A real je ne sais quoi.

Also Debbie Washherass Schultz is a clown.

 

[Dragon]

If it came down to Biden, Kennedy, Trump, or DeSantis, I would probably vote Kennedy. There is some about that guy that sets him apart from the rest. A real je ne sais quoi.

Also Debbie Washherass Schultz is a clown.

If Kennedy is elected then God help you all if another Covid like virus should arise...


Is this racist really the person you would like as president ?

During a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant last week, Kennedy claimed that the Covid-19 virus was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” before adding that “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” Kennedy then said that Chinese researchers are making “ethnic bioweapons” and collecting data samples from different ethnic groups “so we can target people by race.” The video was first reported on by The New York Post

Three key moments from RFK Jr.'s testimony to Congress

Republicans invited the vaccine skeptic and presidential candidate to testify about "censorship" on social media platforms.

www.politico.com

 

[LA - L.A.]

If Kennedy is elected then God help you all if another Covid like virus should arise...


Is this racist really the person you would like as president ?

Three key moments from RFK Jr.'s testimony to Congress

Republicans invited the vaccine skeptic and presidential candidate to testify about "censorship" on social media platforms.

www.politico.com

I think Kennedy's racism is part of the je ne sais quoi that people like about him.

 

[DaveXA]

If it came down to Biden, Kennedy, Trump, or DeSantis, I would probably vote Kennedy. There is some about that guy that sets him apart from the rest. A real je ne sais quoi.

Also Debbie Washherass Schultz is a clown.

Sorry but heck no. Kenny is just as much nutso as Trump/DeSantis, if not worse. I'd go Biden and not think twice about it, even though I'd rather other options than those 4.

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

This article is related to this thread's title.
I have a busy day ahead so I don't anticipate being on madaboutpolitcs very much today.
Yet I'll share this with you folks and then turn my attention to my work...
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Poll: Most Americans say Biden and Trump are not 'fit' to serve as president

A full 55% of Americans say Joe Biden is not worthy of the presidency, and a statistically identical 53% say the same of Donald Trump.

www.yahoo.com

 

[DaveXA]

This article is related to this thread's title.
I have a busy day ahead so I don't anticipate being on madaboutpolitcs very much today.
Yet I'll share this with you folks and then turn my attention to my work...
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Poll: Most Americans say Biden and Trump are not 'fit' to serve as president

A full 55% of Americans say Joe Biden is not worthy of the presidency, and a statistically identical 53% say the same of Donald Trump.

www.yahoo.com

Not at all surprising. I really don't get why the parties are trying to stay with the status quo, but here we are.

 

[brandon]

If it came down to Biden, Kennedy, Trump, or DeSantis, I would probably vote Kennedy. There is some about that guy that sets him apart from the rest. A real je ne sais quoi.

Also Debbie Washherass Schultz is a clown.

There went any shred of credibility you had left.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

If Kennedy is elected then God help you all if another Covid like virus should arise...


Is this racist really the person you would like as president ?

Three key moments from RFK Jr.'s testimony to Congress

Republicans invited the vaccine skeptic and presidential candidate to testify about "censorship" on social media platforms.

www.politico.com

Even his wife sees this:

Cheryl Hines condemns husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine comments, which invoked Anne Frank | CNN

Hines said her husband’s reference to Anne Frank, which he later apologized for, was “reprehensible.” Kennedy made his original comments at an anti-vaccine mandate rally, suggesting Frank had it better than present-day Americans because she could “hide.”

www.cnn.com

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

If it came down to Biden, Kennedy, Trump, or DeSantis, I would probably vote Kennedy. There is some about that guy that sets him apart from the rest. A real je ne sais quoi.

Also Debbie Washherass Schultz is a clown.

honestly, do you really think Kennedy has any interest in what American Citizens want and need over his wackadoodle conspiracies?
if he even stands a shot at the White House, we may as well invest in bomb shelters and those kind of houses they had in The Purge..