Sounds like you’d make a fine campaign manager!
And now I have a press/social media manager.
Grassroots ground game organizer as well!
Looks like my campaign staff is assembled.
Now we need a campaign slogan.
Enidigm
3737
Why Indiana Not Ohio?
Oh, hi o!
Wait, it’s all Ohio? (Always has been!)
MOSUGA?
We go through about 3 gallons a week and there are only 4 people in the family that really drink it.
“Putting Ohio Opportunities First!” - it could be fun to get all the Conservatives and rural voters excited about voting POOF.
We do 2, but I’ve started buying Soy milk for Cereal, because its slightly cheaper in PA.
Milk is pricey in PA.
Menzo
3742
But the typical 11-person family has to pay more for milk! That’s the story that needs to be told.
ShivaX
3743
If your child’s average weekly consumption of milk isn’t more than a gallon, are you really an American?
“Milk Prices Lower Now Than Under Trump” just isn’t a very interesting story!
CraigM
3745
Considering how many Americans are completely full of shit, dairy based constipation is certainly a believable cause.
Menzo
3746
Yes, but what of frozen concentrated orange juice? I hear we’re waiting for that report.
Bad news sells, that is a tale as old as time. The Dow, Jobs and Unemployment numbers don’t mean much to the average American. All they see are gas prices creeping higher, grocery prices creeping higher, supply chain problems, their favorite stores and restaurants understaffed and out of stock, and COVID still hanging around long after we were supposed to have been done with it. All that makes them unhappy, and unhappy people blame the person in charge, rightfully or not, and set that against the backdrop of the whole “Democratic Party Can’t Even Agree On What Day It Is” narrative coming out of Washington and you get 30% approval ratings…
While I agree that the White House could be doing better on messaging, what they really need is for the supply chain crisis to start easing, oil production world-wide to ramp up again (thereby decreasing prices), and for the infrastructure bills to pass already. If all that occurs by Spring 2022, combined with continued economic recovery and positive jobs/unemployment news and marked declines in COVID, then Democrats will be in good shape to run all summer touting how they turned things around.
It’s not at all fair that Republicans get to be the party of tearing things apart and obstructing progress, and Democrats have to be the party of putting things back together again and get punished every time that doesn’t happen fast enough for people, but it’s become the norm. I thought that might change after Trump and the GOP botched the pandemic response, nearly tanking our economy and killing 600,000 Americans and counting, but apparently half the country is so enraged over the price of gas and milk that they’re ready to go back to having the party that actively tried to murder them in charge again. America truly has become an idiocracy.
Scuzz
3748
How much of that is linked to gas prices returning to normal from what were artificially low prices? And is that a component of the inflation figure? Did anyone really expect prices to stay down?
Menzo
3749
The right wing and their media apparatus don’t care about what is expected or even what reality is. They create reality. If Trump were President they’d all be proclaiming how amazing everything is and shouting down anyone who dared question it.
ShivaX
3750
True and yet…
These things were almost the entirety of the news while Trump was President.
Farmers were going under because of his stupid trade war, but the news didn’t have time for any of that because the Stock Market Oh Look At The Stock Market.
Now as far as what you’re saying, I agree, but also:
A lot of this is on the media imo. The GOP runs everything into the ground and all we hear about is the DOW. Meanwhile the price of milk fluctuates and Biden has destroyed America.
The people responsible for a lot of these problems get a pass because the media ignores it, while touting their wins (even if those wins are just general trends).
ShivaX
3751
Depends. Who’s President?
If it’s a Republican, well those prices were artificially low. If it’s a Democrat, it’s proof that they are a failure and bad at the economy.
The thing is, you expect like the usual suspects to say this stuff. But the problem seems to be that the mainstream media, instead of doing work, just parrots those (usually opinion) pieces and then maybe has a panel with whatever the stupid OPed was saying emblazoned on the bottom of the screen to reaffirm that position to everyone.
The media loves some bothsides, but what they love more is “Democrats are fucking up” and “Republicans are actually not as terrible as you’d think…” It’s like that graphic of Fox News and how it’s opinion shows feed it’s actual news only there is another step where CNN and everyone else jumps on the wagon after the Fox News’ part.
I’ve come around to this point of view seeing how quickly so much of the media world has fallen back into old patterns “post-Trump”*.
(*we are most definitely NOT “post-Trump”)
Yeah, this is the sort of thing - piled on top of the anti-democratic Constitution we’re saddled with - that makes the “vote harder” people difficult to take seriously. Given that they then offer no thoughts on how to overcome either thing.
