"Still: If this is an increasingly dangerous world, it means that in this respect President Biden can’t run a typical incumbent reelection campaign. He can’t simply say, 'Things are getting better! The world is safer than it was four years ago'.”
Voters who use reason don't need an incumbent to claim that "things are getting better," when…
"Still: If this is an increasingly dangerous world, it means that in this respect President Biden can’t run a typical incumbent reelection campaign. He can’t simply say, 'Things are getting better! The world is safer than it was four years ago'.”
Voters who use reason don't need an incumbent to claim that "things are getting better," when they're not. In fact for my 52 years of voting nothing any candidate SAID won my vote. I ignored all "sales pitches" and weighed the facts to see who would do a better job. Often it was a tough call, and I have regretted a few votes. I may have more disagreements with Biden than most other candidates I voted for in the past, but he will get my vote in '24 as he did in '20. Unfortunately the whole purpose of a campaign is not to reach voters of reason but to appeal to those who vote on emotion and crave "feel-good sales pitches," even if they're untrue. And unfortunately any voter who's still in the "Maybe Trump" camp, or even in the "Definitely not Trump, but maybe nor Biden either," is that most likely that second kind.
"Still: If this is an increasingly dangerous world, it means that in this respect President Biden can’t run a typical incumbent reelection campaign. He can’t simply say, 'Things are getting better! The world is safer than it was four years ago'.”
Voters who use reason don't need an incumbent to claim that "things are getting better," when they're not. In fact for my 52 years of voting nothing any candidate SAID won my vote. I ignored all "sales pitches" and weighed the facts to see who would do a better job. Often it was a tough call, and I have regretted a few votes. I may have more disagreements with Biden than most other candidates I voted for in the past, but he will get my vote in '24 as he did in '20. Unfortunately the whole purpose of a campaign is not to reach voters of reason but to appeal to those who vote on emotion and crave "feel-good sales pitches," even if they're untrue. And unfortunately any voter who's still in the "Maybe Trump" camp, or even in the "Definitely not Trump, but maybe nor Biden either," is that most likely that second kind.