Biden ticks up, but GOP holds advantage on economy, Post-ABC poll finds

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Source: Washington Post

President Biden’s standing with Americans has improved slightly over the past two months, but he remains in negative territory in most assessments of his performance in office and Republicans hold substantial advantages over Democrats on key economic indicators that are shaping the midterm election year, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. The new survey, while better for the president and his party than his low point two months ago, nonetheless underscores the head winds Democratic candidates are facing ahead of the November balloting.

With a 42 percent approval rating overall, Biden gets low marks on his handling of the economy and inflation and Republicans are significantly more trusted than Democrats on both measures. More than 9 in 10 Americans say they are concerned, at minimum, about the rate of inflation, which has been at a 40-year high in recent months. That includes 44 percent who categorize themselves as “upset.” Republicans are far more likely to call themselves upset over inflation than either independents or Democrats.

At the same time, half of all Americans (50 percent) say good-paying jobs are easy to find in their communities, findings that reflect the unemployment rate standing near a half-century low and, anecdotally, the many “hiring” signs in business windows across the country. A lesser 43 percent say those jobs are hard to find. Republicans, who generally rate the economy more negatively than Democrats, are, perhaps surprisingly, more likely to say good-paying jobs are easy to find.

In a positive indicator for Biden and his party, the Post-ABC poll also shows Democrats moving to rough parity with Republicans on intentions to vote in House races in November, often seen as a key indicator of the size of the potential shifts in the balance of power. Republicans need a net gain of five seats to capture control of the House from the Democrats, which would allow them to block Biden’s agenda for the last half of his term. Today, 46 percent of registered voters say they would vote for the Democrat in their congressional district, compared with 45 percent who say they would vote for the Republican. Based on historical patterns, Democrats would likely need a bigger advantage to avoid losing their majority.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/01/poll-biden-post-abc/

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A mixed bag but at least some good signs holding up against a tidal wave of "bad news" while a veritable laundry list of campaign promises fulfilled that protect the American worker, protect the environment, and protect our democracy by helping us climb out of the ravine that the GOP has thrown us into, gets ignored. Key is to get us in a good position before November!

[niyad]

1. Low marks for Biden, pukes trusted more? My head hurts at the insane inversion.

wapo is one of those responsible for that inversion of reality.

[ananda]

6. I know. I mean... seriously?

!@#$%

[abqtommy]

2. Thanks, WAPO, for attempting to 'normalize' the QOP and lead people to somehow

believe that they're still relevant anywhere but as defendants in a courtroom or inmates
in jail/prison cells. Thanks for letting us know about this idiocy in your OP here.

[brooklynite]

10. So you don't want to know what people actually think?

Are we better off going into the election blind?

[PortTack]

25. I don't think it's that ppl don't want to know, they just don't buy what they're putting out there

I for sure am one of them….And with good reason!

The last 3 election cycles have proven that the polls really are not accurate. They’ve done nothing to change their poor polling methodology and yet are still to be believed?

538 the supposed gold standard, b4 the last presidential election, out of the blue changed the rating of trafalgor and rasmussen from low numbers to As and Bs..really?

Silver came to political prominence in 2008, when his aggregations of election polls produced an impressive predictive model that called that year’s national elections with remarkable accuracy. In subsequent years, he and his organization, FiveThirtyEight, have produced inconsistent results: an inaccurate muck-up of 2010 elections in the U.K.; an accurate prediction of the 2012 results in the U.S.; and a wildly incorrect take on the 2016 elections that he continues to attempt to retcon into an impressive showing by claiming he was slightly less overconfident about a Donald Trump loss than everybody else.

More recently, he was confidently mocking supporters of impeachment for their antimajoritarian views: “Wait aren’t you the guy who thinks impeachment will be a really good political move for Democrats even though it polls at like 37%?,” he tweeted in September, barely a month before the Democrats launched an actual impeachment inquiry following revelations that Trump clumsily sought some kind of foreign assistance in digging up dirt on his political opponents, a decision that within a matter of weeks swung a majority of public sentiment in favor of impeachment.

Increasingly, one suspects that despite his claims to analytical rigor, at some very basic level, Silver does not actually know what a poll is. He is not alone in this; a fair portion of the country’s political punditry and opinion-making class is equally misinformed. In their conception, polls of opinion and sentiment represent not a snapshot of the present as informed by the past, but rather a hazy but prescient view into the future; not a measurement, but a prediction. “[Y]ou can actually write down what will happen in the future, with as much confidence as you write down the history of the past. Because it’s science!” This is why so much media discourse around polling emphasizes a framework that paints polls of present attitudes as a form of absolute constraint on where sentiment will go.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/30/nate-silver-making-he-goes

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Messaging, messaging

I can't help but think the White House and DNC are in better shape to handle this kind of problem than ever before. If we as a party put in max effort, we may just luck our way through it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. Well, that smear piece is not blatant at all, is it?

[brooklynite]

11. a standard approval poll is a "smear piece"?

If that's the case, DNC leadership gave me a "smear piece" last month.

[OldBaldy1701E]

31. The inference that rethugs are more trusted

in regards to the economy and inflation. You agree with that?

The new survey, while better for the president and his party than his low point two months ago, nonetheless underscores the head winds Democratic candidates are facing ahead of the November balloting.

Do you agree with this?

What I am saying is that their attempt to make both parties sound equally engaged and working for a solution to the current issues facing this country is laughable. The rethugs are only interested in being in power by being the most wealthy. Once this country is untenable, they will be out of here so fast you may not remember that they were even here.

'Biden approval ticks up, yet remains underwater.'

The wording there should be obvious to anyone. The Post is trying to hedge their bets in case their rethug masters actually lose the midterms, but they are also making sure that we keep in mind that the rethugs are legitimately trying to be proper representatives in Congress. They stopped doing that a long time ago.

[brooklynite]

32. I agree that polled voters think so; the DNC said the same thing.

[SledDriver]

5. Republicans are significantly more trusted than Democrats on both (the economy and inflation)

What kind of bullshit is that? What is their solution? Blame Democrats?

[Roy Rolling]

7. Poll Conclusion:

Numbers without context lie, liars use numbers to mislead. Therefore polls are gerrymandered the same way geographical districts are—it’s more about asking the right people than asking the right question. There’s no random sample anymore when Republicans are a party whose main attribute is they’re proud to be liars. They’ll predictably lie to misrepresent that they’re neutral or a Democrat on any political poll. That skews polls in favor of Republicans since Democrats are truthful to a fault on matters like this.

And so we get news-worthless polls like this.

[PortTack]

20. Boy you nailed it!

[Mysterian]

8. The party that wants to give all your money to billionaires has the advantage on the economy

A lot of Americans just aren't that bright.

[pazzyanne]

9. Biden's First Hundred Days.

1.) Delivered 200 million shots in less than 100 days. This was double the initial goal of 100 shots in 100 days, and 200 shots was hit with a week to spare. 220 million in total were administered in 100 days. [NBC News, 4/22/21]
2.) Sent checks up to $1,400 to 160 million households. This represents a total value of more than $384 billion. [CBS News, 4/28/21]
3.) Committed to cutting carbon pollution in half by 2030. [NBC News, 04/22/21]
4.) Fully reopened majority of schools. The Biden administration provided support to states and localities and “distributed $81 billion of $122 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to states for immediate use this spring and planning ahead for summer and beyond.” [Department of Education, 4/29/21]
5.) Paused student loan payments and set student loan interest rates to 0 percent. [CBS News, 1/21/21]
6.) Confirmed the most diverse Cabinet in history. [NPR, 2/5/21]
7.) Protected LGBTQ people from discrimination. This Executive Order issued on his first day in office established federal policy to “fully enforce” the “laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.” [WH, 1/20/21]
8.) Expanded child tax credit. This could cut child poverty in half. [Yahoo News, 4/28/21]
9.) Gave billions in support for meals to those affected by the pandemic. Up to 34 million kids will have $375 per week to buy food over the summer. [NBC News, 4/26/21]
10.) Helped ensure more than 50 percent of adults vaccinated with one shot. [NBC News, 4/18/21]
11.) Mandated masks on federal property. The Executive Order is meant to protect the federal workforce and encourage mask usage across the country. It also developed a testing plan for the federal workforce. [WH, 1/20/21]
12.) Rejoined Paris climate accord. The Biden administration rejoined the Paris Climate accord nearly four years after the Trump administration began the process to exit the international agreement which sets ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, and nearly four months after the Trump administration had officially withdrawn. This would have left the United States in the company of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Eritrea, Yemen, and Libya, which are the six nations who have not joined. [WH, 1/20/21]
13.) Rescinded Muslim ban. Biden issued an Executive Order revoking Trump executive actions he called “a stain on our national conscience and are inconsistent with our long history of welcoming people of all faiths and no faith at all” and “just plain wrong.” [WH, 1/20/21]
14.) Rejoined World Health Organization. The Trump administration had pulled the United States out of the global health organization. [WH, 1/20/21
15.) Decreased amount of deportations. Initially a 100-day pause on deportations that a judge halted, deportations have dropped dramatically and focused on actual dangers and threats. [WH, 1/20/21]
16.) Preserved and fortified DACA. [WH, 1/20/21]
17.) Extended federal unemployment insurance through September. The extra $300 per week is targeted at the 11 million Americans who are unemployed, many due to the pandemic. [American Rescue Plan, 3/11/21]
18.) Helped small businesses and nonprofits weather the pandemic. This boosted the Paycheck Protection Plan by $7.25 billion. [American Rescue Plan, 3/11/21]
19.) Provided billions in emergency rental assistance. This includes money for the unhoused and victims of domestic violence. [American Rescue Plan, 3/11/21]
20.) Supported airline industry workers. This saved at least 27,000 airline industry jobs. [MSNBC, 3/12/21]
21.) Supported restaurant workers. This supported small restaurant owners and workers by opening an exclusive PPP window for smaller mom-and-pop stores to apply and get aid. [CSBJ, 3/3/21]
22.) Boosted COVID-19 testing and vaccine implementation. This includes: $7.5 billion to CDC to administer vaccines, $46 billion to diagnose and trace infections, $2 billion for testing and PPE [American Rescue Plan, 3/11/21]
23.) Helped families with heating and cooling costs. The ARP boosted LIHEAP by $4.5 billion. [American Rescue Plan, 3/11/21]
24.) Gave teachers and schools necessary pandemic funding. This provided $128 billion to state education agencies [WH, 3/15/21]
25.) Supported child care facilities. The ARP invested about $15 billion in the Child Care & 26.) 26.) Development Block Grant program, targeting high-need areas. [American Rescue Plan, 3/11/21]
27.) Cancelled student debt for 72,000 borrowers. These students were victims of fraud from for profit institutions. [Department of Education, 03/18/21]
28.) Created more than 18,000 infrastructure jobs on public lands. This is a $1.6 billion investment on infrastructure on public lands and for Tribal schools [04/02/21]
29.) Condemned racism and intolerance against Asian Americans. This executive order also directed the attorney General “to explore opportunities to support, consistent with applicable law, the efforts of State and local agencies, as well as AAPI communities and community-based organizations, to prevent discrimination, bullying, harassment, and hate crimes against AAPI individuals.” [WH, 01/26/21]
30.) Stopped drilling in the Arctic. Among other rule changes, this placed “a temporary moratorium on all activities of the Federal Government relating to the implementation of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program” in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. [WH, 1/20/21]
31.) Halted the Keystone XL pipeline. “The Keystone XL pipeline disserves the U.S. national interest. … Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives.” [WH, 1/20/21]
32.) Used the Defense Production Act to fight the pandemic. This sped up vaccinations and increased production of PPE. [The Washington Post, 02/05/21]
33.) Rescinded “zero tolerance” policy that resulted in family separations. [NBC News, 1/26/21]
34.) Fired anti-union NLRB general counsel. The Biden administration fired anti-union NLRB general counsel Peter Robb, who helped Reagan break the air traffic controllers union, and has pushed a pro-business, anti-worker agenda at the NLRB for almost four years. Biden asked for his resignation and when he refused, fired him 10 months before his term ended. [Bloomberg, 1/20/21]
35.) Nominated first Senate-confirmed transgender official, Dr. Rachel Levine. She was confirmed in March as the highest-ranking openly transgender official in U.S. history. [The Washington Post, 03/24/2021]
36.) Demanded resignation of anti-free speech VOA head. The Biden-Harris administration demanded the resignation of anti-free-speech Voice of America head Michael Pack. While he was running the congressionally-funded international broadcaster VOA, he picked fights with media, attacked the so-called “deep state,” disciplined his own journalists for asking questions of Trump appointees, and faced regular accusations of pro-Trump bias. Biden’s pick to replace him was a whistleblower who is part of a lawsuit alleging Pack committed illegal acts. [NPR, 1/20/21]
37.) Created COVID-19 response coordinator reporting to president. This executive order essentially restarted the NSC pandemic response team that Trump eliminated. [White House, 1/20/21]
38.) Revoked “global gag rule,” or Mexico City policy. This rescinded the “Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. aid to groups that make referrals for abortion or discuss abortion as an option abroad.” [Time, 1/28/21; White House, 1/28/21]
39.) Changed White House website to ask for pronouns. Four years prior to this change, the Trump White House removed all mention of LGBTQ from its website. [NBC News, 1/21/21]
Reinstated Spanish-language version of White House website. La Casa Bianca, back after the Trump administration took it down four years ago. [US News, 01/20/21]
40.) Made ASL pledge of allegiance at inauguration. This was the first time the pledge was delivered in ASL at an inauguration, demonstrating the administration’s commitment to inclusivity and accessibility. [NPR, 1/20/21]
41.) Revoked order on defunding sanctuary cities. [White House, 1/20/21]
42.) Booted deregulation. The administration, highlighting “the urgent challenges facing the Nation, including the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, economic recovery, racial justice, and climate change,” declared that agencies have to be “equipped with the flexibility to use robust regulatory action to address national priorities,” to tackle them effectively. “This order revokes harmful policies and directives that threaten to frustrate the Federal Government’s ability to confront these problems.” [WH, 1/20/21]
43.) Extended Obamacare enrollment window a second time. This provided coverage to over half a million people. [NBC News, 3/23/21]
44.) Extended eviction ban to June 30. This affects millions of tenants. [Politico, 3/29/21]
45.) Made plans for new vehicles to be more fuel-efficient. [WH, 1/20/21]
46.) Canceled student debt for 41,000 borrowers with disabilities. [Yahoo News, 03/30/21]
47.) Directed review of standards that encouraged needless pollution from coal and oil-fired power plants. This was part of a review of regulatory action taken during the Trump administration. [WH, 1/20/21]
48.) Protected national monuments. This includes taking action to reverse the shrinking of Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. [WH, 01/20/21]
49.) Acknowledged the cost of carbon pollution. [WH, 01/20/21]
50.) Changed rules to allow 25 million people to get boost in food stamp benefits. [CNN, 04/21/21]
51.) Brought science back to chemical safety regulations. [EPA, 04/08/21]
52.) Restored daily weekday press briefings. [ABC.Net.Au, 01/21/21]
53.) Extended eviction moratorium. His first day in office, Biden immediately extended the moratorium through the end of March. [CDC, 1/20/21]
54.) Advanced racial equity within government. This directed federal agencies to “assess whether, and to what extent, its programs and policies perpetuate systemic barriers to opportunities and benefits for people of color and other underserved groups.” [WH, 1/20/21]
55.) Redirected funding from border wall construction. This also ordered an investigation of whether the funding redirected from the military under Trump was legally done. [WH, 1/20/21]
56.) Unfroze $27 billion in funds for international COVID-19 efforts frozen by Trump. [The Hill, 1/20/21]
57.) Issued science-based guidance to keep workers safe from COVID-19. [WH, 1/20/21]
58.) Ensured equitable pandemic response and recovery. “In order to identify and eliminate health and social inequities resulting in disproportionately higher rates of exposure, illness, and death, I am directing a Government-wide effort to address health equity. The Federal Government must take swift action to prevent and remedy differences in COVID-19 care and outcomes within communities of color and other underserved populations.” [WH, 1/21/21]
59.) Incorporated CDC guidance to promote safe travel. This guidance, heretofore lacking, involved mask wearing, recent negative Covid tests for international travel, basic worker protections, and other state and local support measures. [WH, 1/21/21]
60.) Set up pandemic testing board to get testing where needed. This includes schools and other high-priority areas. [WH, 1/21/21]
61.) Provided national guidance on safe school reopening under COVID-19. This guidance was meant to “provide support to help create the conditions for safe, in-person learning as quickly as possible; ensure high-quality instruction and the delivery of essential services often received by students and young children at school, institutions of higher education, child care providers, and Head Start programs; mitigate learning loss caused by the pandemic; and address educational disparities and inequities that the pandemic has created and exacerbated.” [WH, 1/21/21]
62.) Kept and maintained COVID-19 data. This followed a disruptive approach to data collection under the previous administration. [WH, 1/21/21]
63.) Ensured pandemic support for the National Guard and FEMA. [WH, 1/21/21]
64.) Expanded care and access to treatment for COVID-19. This is meant to accelerate novel therapies, improve health care capacity, and make care more equitable. [WH, 1/21/21]
65.) Established a global COVID-19 response director. [Politico, 4/05/21]
66.) Made funding for non-congregate sheltering of homeless fully reimbursable. This compares to 75% of the cost covered by FEMA and the rest passed to cities and states, who often cannot pay. [WH, 1/21/21]
67.) Strengthened food assistance. “The order will ask the department to consider increasing the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer program, or P-EBT, by 15% and making it easier for households to claim those benefits.” [USA Today, 1/22/21]
68.) Guaranteed a $15 minimum wage for federal contractors. This could affect up to 390,000 workers. [Associated Press, 4/27/21]
69.) Allowed workers to draw unemployment if they quit because their jobs are not safe. This had been a problem for workers worried about Covid-19. [WH, 3/15/21]
70.) Overturned transgender ban on military service. The ban had been put in place by the Trump administration. [Reuters, 1/25/21]
71.) Proclaimed science-based COVID-19 travel restrictions. This also included a new ban on travel from South Africa in response to the outbreak of the variant there. [NBC News, 1/25/21]
72.) Promoted “Buy American” agenda. The order directs agencies to strengthen their requirements to buy products and services from American companies. [NBC News, 1/25/21]
73.) Directed HUD secretary to redress history of housing discrimination. The order declared, “it is the policy of my Administration that the Federal Government shall work with communities to end housing discrimination, to provide redress to those who have experienced housing discrimination, to eliminate racial bias and other forms of discrimination in all stages of home-buying and renting, to lift barriers that restrict housing and neighborhood choice, to promote diverse and inclusive communities, to ensure sufficient physically accessible housing, and to secure equal access to housing opportunity for all.” [WH, 1/21/21]
74.) Eliminated continued use of private prisons. The order directed the Attorney General to not renew any contracts with private prisons. [WH, 1/26/21]
75.) Reaffirmed federal government’s commitment to tribal sovereignty. “The United States has made solemn promises to Tribal Nations for more than two centuries. Honoring those commitments is particularly vital now, as our Nation faces crises related to health, the economy, racial justice, and climate change — all of which disproportionately harm Native Americans.” [WH, 1/26/21]
76.) Asked OMB to “embed racial equity in its work.” [CNN, 01/26/21]
77.) Announced major offshore wind energy initiative that would help create 135,000 jobs. [New York Times, 3/29/21]
78.) Issued memorandum on scientific integrity. “Improper political interference in the work of Federal scientists or other scientists who support the work of the Federal Government and in the communication of scientific facts undermines the welfare of the Nation, contributes to systemic inequities and injustices, and violates the trust that the public places in government to best serve its collective interests.” [WH, 1/27/21]
79.) Re-established presidential council on science and technology. Listening to scientists again. [WH, 1/27/21]
80.) Strengthened Medicaid and the ACA. This includes a comprehensive agency review of actions that might undermine Medicaid or support for people with pre-existing conditions. [WH, 1/28/21]
81.) Revoked justification for family separation. This includes a task force to reunite families. [WH, 2/2/21]
82.) Finalized deal for 200 million more vaccines. [NBC News, 2/11/21]
83.) Issued executive order to promote access to voting. Within 200 days of the order, all agencies will need plans to increase access to voter registration and participation, as well as modernizing the Vote.gov portal. [CNN, 3/7/21]
84.) Ensured everyone is counted in the census. [WH, 01/20/21]
85.) Declared to agencies that gay and transgender youth are protectedunder civil rights law. This confirms that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bostock decision applies to Title IX. [Department of Justice, 3/26/21]
86.) Stopped the venting of methane needlessly into the atmosphere. This includes an immediate agency review of actions that have enabled the oil and gas industry to leak methane from their equipment and wells. [WH, 1/20/21]
87.) Revised conservation standards to ensure building appliances are more efficient. [WH, 1/20/21]
88.) Revoked Trump’s order sanctioning International Criminal Court officials. This move was applauded by human rights groups. [CNN, 4/02/21]
89.) Made ethics pledge for administration staff. Among several requirements are a lobbyist gift ban, a revolving door ban, and a golden parachute ban. [WH, 01/20/21]
90.) Moved up deadline for all adults to be eligible for COVID-19 vaccine to April 19. [CNN, 4/06/21]
91.) Initiated modernizing regulatory review. This orders a “swift and effective” process that promotes “public health and safety, economic growth, social welfare, racial justice, environmental stewardship, human dignity, equity, and the interests of future generations.” [WH, 1/20/21]
92.) Established presidential commission on the U.S. Supreme Court. [WH, 4/09/21]
93.) Tripled the number of daily vaccinations. The daily rate was 1.1 million when Biden took office, and it reached 3.3 million within a few months. [POTUS Twitter, 4/14/21]
94.) Punished Russia for cyberattacks on America. The administration also formally accused Russia of backing the massive SolarWinds hack of U.S. government and corporate computer systems.[Wall Street Journal, 4/15/21]
95.) Acknowledged the Armenian genocide. [NPR, 4/24/21]
96.) Imposed sanctions on Burma following coup. [AP, 2/10/21]
97.) Reopened office of faith-based and neighborhood partnerships. [WH, 2/14/21]
98.) Guaranteed an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation or gender identity. [WH, 3/08/21]
99.) Established gender policy council in the White House. [WH, 3/08/21]
100.) Signed $5 billion in relief for Black farmers impacted by decades of discrimination made worse during the pandemic. [NBC 4, 4/5/21]
101.) Saved the pensions of more than 1 million retirees. Biden’s American Rescue Plan restored to financial health more than 100 failing pension plans covering more than 400,000 workers and their families. [Forbes, 3/12/21]

CAP Action

THAT IS MORE THAN TFG ACCOMPLISHED IN 4 YEARS. MOST IMPORTANTLY, JOE HAS RESTORED THE UNITED STATES TO THEIR LEADERSHIP STATUS IN THE WORLD!

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Thank you for posting

I remember when the same type of long list was posted on DU many times when Obama was President while the media ignored it and a subset of DUers proceeded to dismiss it and insist instead, on repeatedly pounding out a series of RW nonsense that they guaranteed would be enacted by Obama.

Let's hope that President Biden will continue to ride atop the wave!

[Eyeball_Kid]

14. Ah, but the GOP gets tax breaks and shifts the burden

onto less economically endowed taxpayers. And that makes them more trusted with the economy??? The rich get richer with fewer taxes, and the non-rich pay more???

Trump put the nation on a trillion dollar debt plan and the GOP nonetheless has the support of voters? How is that?

The GOP has NO PLAN for the economy, and they get support? Bizarre.

Oh, the benefits of pure propaganda... Dazzle the voters with bullshit and they'll eat it up.

[Botany]

17. The best President of my lifetime

Sadly, the GOP/rich fuckers control so much of the press all the good works of Joe don't get
the coverage they deserve.

Joe protected this too.

[turbinetree]

18. They couldn't spend the time researching what you said in this thread....

thank you ....

[ck4829]

13. Not smart

[Historic NY]

15. Wait what is the GOP doing on the economy???

[Historic NY]

16. If only the DNC would get out front,

its like they are self-defeating

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Well us oldsters may not realize it

but this is slowly happening. And no I don't use TikTok but my nieces and nephews (and the grand-nephews) do (in some cases because the company gobbled up some of the social media entities that they used) but the DNC and WH have now started delving in there.

The M$M is completely corporate-owned so they will not cover Democrats except in a negative light.

Mar 20, 2022 - Politics & Policy
DNC gets on TikTok to test impact on young voters


Alexi McCammond


The Democratic National Committee joined TikTok earlier this month, hoping to engage more with younger voters and test the benefits of the platform's viral videos for future campaigns, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: TikTok is the central place for Gen Z to get news, as Axios has reported. The Democrats are the first of the two national parties to join. It's already become the Democrats' highest-performing social platform for video views.

By the numbers: DNC TikTok videos have amassed over 2 million views in just over one week, and the party currently has nearly 25,000 followers.

The growth potential is huge: TikTok has over 1 billion active monthly users.

The big picture: This will be the first midterm cycle in the TikTok era — it launched in China in 2016 but didn't become popular in the U.S. until the fall of 2018.

The now-widespread app has become so important in Democratic politics, the White House held a briefing specifically for TikTok influencers on March 11 to teach them how to share accurate information about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Democrats plan to use footage of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in their videos, as well as other Democratic figures, to share more about what their party is accomplishing in Washington, Axios is told.

(snip)

https://www.axios.com/democrats-tiktok-2022-midterms-biden-f4ef8078-ae30-470e-8404-90bae1bd5d54.html

And cross-linked in the above Axios article was WaPo's blip on the WH briefing that happened in March -

The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine

With millions getting their information about the war from the platform, the administration wants to get its message to top content creators


By Taylor Lorenz
March 11, 2022 at 11:23 a.m. EST

(snip)

The White House has been closely watching TikTok’s rise as a dominant news source, leading to its decision to approach a select group of the platform’s most influential names.

This week, the administration began working with Gen Z For Change, a nonprofit advocacy group, to help identify top content creators on the platform to orchestrate a briefing aimed at answering questions about the conflict and the United States’ role in it. Victoria Hammett, deputy executive director of Gen Z For Change, contacted dozens with invitations via email and gathered potential questions for the Biden administration.

The invitations to the event were distributed Tuesday and Wednesday. Kahlil Greene, 21, a creator with more than 534,000 followers on TikTok, said he wasn’t surprised when an invitation arrived in his email inbox. “People in my generation get all our information from TikTok,” he said. “It’s the first place we’re searching up new topics and learning about things.” So, he figured, it made sense that the Biden administration would engage people like him on the platform.

The briefing was led by Matt Miller, a special adviser for communications at the White House National Security Council, and Psaki. The Washington Post obtained a recording of the call, and in it, Biden officials stressed the power these creators had in communicating with their followers. “We recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the American public is finding out about the latest,” said the White House director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, “so we wanted to make sure you had the latest information from an authoritative source.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/11/tik-tok-ukraine-white-house/

https://www.newsweek.com/im-tiktok-influencer-white-house-joe-biden-backlash-ukraine-1693894
^^^(this has some of the TikTok video done by one of the people who attended it and there is no embed feature for TikTok on DU at this time)

In other words, DU, as a majority Boomer and GenX site, is "out of the loop".

[867-5309.]

21. Joe went from 19 underwater to 10

That's more than a tick.

[turbinetree]

22. Bullshit....they keep forgetting that there is a fascist loving party that is whining about people

trying to get a student debt relief , and the GD right wing fascist are whining that next up will be auto loans and credit cards.....maybe they should go back and look at the 1986 Tax Reform Act that "everyone" was jumping up and down with glee and the start of the basic fucking over the taxpayers , you know the Act that corporations were still able to write off there loans when it came to taxes...in fact it went down to 40% and oh boy my tax deduction went up, but I lost a deduction on interest , but this media newspaper doesn't mention that fact.....they also don't mention in this hit job how, let's say one fucking governor in Texas decided all by himself to just stop trucks from coming over to Mexico, which made inflation go higher, and how corporations are basically price gouging the public, have you been to the show room to look at lets say a brand new Ford Maverick, the MSRP is around $19,000 to $26,000 for a Ford XLT Maverick, the car dealers are charging over $7,000 on that price since they couldn't get any (its called market adjusted pricing), that is what called price gouging and inflation, and they had no chips for the cars, because everyone was using the worthless model of outsourcing every damn thing based on lower price in wages, and using another country to pit itself against another country, and then turning right around and blaming the workers in this country as being to expensive.......and then next up they talk about jobs, just ask that Utah senator Mittens what he did with Bain Capital and his fucking holding company he was outscoring jobs and getting a tax break for doing it..... and then they keep forgetting that during the rein of terror (2016-2020) with the traitor in Washington and his corrupt weaseling administration , that this country had over 750,000 deaths in a raging pandemic and he was getting on stage telling people to inject themselves with bleach.....and somehow in the last year and half it is now Bidens fault JFC...
That headline is so full of shit
You have a governor in Florida that is outright attacking a business for being inclusive of people that are LGBQT and then using some fascist authoritarian BS about CRT, and some how this is going to be Bidens problem watch....you also have from the same state Florida a "guy" that defrauded Medicare and now wants to means test it and completely abolish it in five years.....5 YEARS and you got have in this country, righty now 26 terrorists republican governor and legislatures in this country still trying to tear down this republic and are actively attacking voting rights with the help from a US Supreme Court that has 6 federalist society members and who knows how many district court judges and the dark money groups tearing down basic rights to have life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.........what the fuck am I missing here....Biden ticks up but the GOP hold an advantage...... advantage in what...... plutocracy to let the oligarchs come and completely take over....

But then again we have to think about how two senators who really fucked over the administration and the people, that is a fact.....

This reminds me of a cartoon.....about the media....

[IronLionZion]

23. Our side really needs to take credit for the jobs and low unemployment

Dems are not great at tooting our own horn. These are real issues that matter more than the CRT and "don't say gay" issues the right is making up to divide people this election year.

Republicans have done jack shit for the economy and they've resisted COVID measures the whole time slowing down the recovery.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Where will the "horn be tooted"?

CBS? CNN? Newsweek? NBC? THEY don't invite us on their shows.

Psaki "has the microphone" daily because she does a press briefing and that is the only "coverage" that the corporate-owned media will reluctantly agree to showing.... maybe... since "we" own none of it.

Every single day, elected Democrats are tweeting about what they have done and that gets posted on DU while DUers complain about "tweets", despite it actually being "messaging" because that is about the only outlet, short of buying ads in every major media market to run non stop (which is probably what they probably should do).

Link to tweet

President Biden
@POTUS
United States government official
We are working tirelessly to open doors for entrepreneurs.

Unfortunately, Congressional Republicans have a different approach. Their plan would raise taxes on 6.1 million small business owners.

My plan cuts taxes for 4 million small business owners and provides tools to thrive.
5:52 PM · Apr 28, 2022

Was this reported?

[IronLionZion]

27. our side should ask Repubs what they've done on inflation

just to see them try to deflect to oil pipelines or something that doesn't make any difference in global markets. Same with prices of groceries, cars, housing, etc.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. And they have done that

during the speeches in Congress and in the twitterverse, some of which gets posted on DU and people complain.

Again, where is this "asking" happening where people (on DU) will see it (as "proof" )? "Meet the Press"? "Face the Nation"? "This Week..." ? CNN? MSNBC? (none of which invite us on or who will invite the most milquetoast of communicators except on some MSNBC shows)

[heckles65]

24. Ridiculous. The Republicans have NO PLAN

beyond their usual "give the wealthy everything that they want, and they'll be nice to all those below them."

All one has to do is ignore all of recorded history to believe that will work.

But hey! CRT! First grade teachers telling their pupils how to have sex! Look here! Look here! And the media falls for it every time.

[PennyPenny]

29. Singing to the Choir is the Problem

Not the solution. We can rant, raise facts, and stomp our feet all day here, but we all know these facts. We can’t depend on the corporate media to do our work for us. Biden needs to break some corporate Democrats arms and pass more meaningful legislation that benefits the people, not the corporate donors. Then, once the wins are recorded, yell from his perch that he’s working for the people. He’s letting the Repugs control the message, with lies.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. "Singing to the Choir is the Problem"

What choir? DU "isn't the microphone".

There is a post upthread that lists the suite of legislation and E.O.s that have been enacted so far - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2910268

So you don't consider that "meaningful" or are not "wins"?

"Free speech" for Democrats is NOT FREE because we don't own the "microphone", so the list of what has been done will need to be in the form of paid advertising in every major media market, whether broadcast, print, or digital. And what happens when you have a list like that, people keel over because it's "too much". We saw that happen with Obama.

Biden, Harris, every Department/Agency head, and many in Congress have gone around the country and the world (and/or have spoken in their Districts/states) describing what has been done and it's not covered. The only mention might be as a footnote to a traffic report alerting commuters to "a motorcade" about to come through.

Did you know that last week, OSHA started hearings on creating a "permanent" standard to protect workers in healthcare environments - as a replacement for the recently expired ETS (Emergency Temporary Standard) that expired? I watched the 3 sessions last week and a 4th is due to happen tomorrow. Do you think Shmuck Toad is going to mention that?

The first two were heartbreaking. Link to the series here (they won't embed correctly for playback here) - https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/healthcare/rulemaking

DOE Head Jennifer Granholm is going to her "home" state tomorrow to attend several events and tout manufacturing there -

Energy Secretary Granholm to visit Michigan on Monday

Ex-Michigan gov. to attend events in East Lansing, Detroit on May 2



FILE - US Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm speaks during the closing media conference at the International Energy Agency (IEA) ministerial meeting in Paris, on March 24, 2022. Granholm said Wednesday, April 27, 2022, that Russia's war on Ukraine screams that the world needs to stop importing oil and gas from Russia and instead move toward other forms of energy. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) (Michel Euler, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

DETROIT – Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm will pay a visit to Michigan this week, where she served as governor for years, to “support American manufacturing” and promote clean energy initiatives and legislation.

The former Michigan governor, who served from 2003-2010, is scheduled to attend events in East Lansing and Detroit on Monday, May 2. The visit is meant to underscore the administration’s push toward clean energy, driving down energy costs and “prioritizing the historically underserved communities that have been at the center of the fight against climate change,” officials said.

Secretary Granholm will first visit East Lansing for a ribbon cutting event at 10 a.m. at Michigan State University, officials said. There, the university will unveil its new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams -- a user facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science where scientists study the “properties of rare isotopes (that is, short-lived nuclei not normally found on Earth), nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society.”

The facility is home to the most powerful heavy-ion accelerator in the world. Granholm will be joined by other Michigan lawmakers, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, in East Lansing,

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/04/30/energy-secretary-granholm-to-visit-michigan-on-monday/

Do you think Wolf Blitzer or David Muir are going to mention this?