9 months to less than 1 year Polling Trump, Biden, Kennedy, Westand Stein

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(02-01-2024, 02:22 PM)pally Wrote: shouldn't we, as Americans, at least try to bridge the gap in understanding how and why each other votes?

You talk about Trump's policies but his policies totally failed during COVID.  His decisions destroyed the American economy. His tax cuts massively increased the deficits You want to blame Biden for inflation but he was handed a sinking ship.  The US is doing better than any developed country in the world, many of which are run by conservative governments.  Did Biden cause their problems too?

The US has never had 17% inflation.  Inflation is measured year over year not cumulatively.  You cannot simply add numbers together and conclude.  You also can't just look at one measure.  Was inflation a problem...absolutely.  Biden inherited an economy on the brink of a major recession or even a depression and yet neither occurred.  Corporations that drive consumer costs, at the height of inflation, were reporting record profits.  Do you think those record profits were boosted by the price increases these companies forced on consumers?  Price gouging drove inflation.

What are Trump's plans for a next term?  He claims to have a health plan (where have we heard that one before)?  But most of his speeches are filled with nonsense word salad focused on revenge against his "enemies'.  Do we really want that as the focus of the US President

You may want to look it up, inflation is measured cumulatively year over year. You say you want to understand how Republicans think, more than some like knowledge to base our decisions on. It is scary you do not understand inflation calculations. Be my guest, google and ask what was inflation each year under President Trump? Why is inflation huge? Simple, if inflation outpaced wage growth (which happened under Biden and DID NOT HAPPEN UNDER TRUMP EVEN WITH COVID), the impact is felt most most by the lower and middle income classes. A family of 4 making $75,000 a year has lost $11,000 of buying power since Biden took office. By all means, please research inflation and wage growth under Trump and you will find the Trump economy was far better for the low and middle income families. That 1 reason alone is why there seems to be a shift upward among voters of all demographics to Trump.

https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/01/inflation-biden-consumer-price-index-labor-statistics-fact-brief/

Is inflation up 17% since President Joe Biden took office?

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by Tom Kertscher / Wisconsin Watch
January 3rd, 2024 

Yes.

The Consumer Price Index was 307.051 in November 2023, 17% higher than the 261.582 it was in January 2021, figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show.

Put another way, $100 in January 2021 has the same buying power as $117 in November 2023.


CPI is the government’s most widely used inflation measure. It includes food, clothing, shelter, transportation, energy and medical care.