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Voters Are Unreliable Narrators

Their feelings don't care about your facts.

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Jonathan V. Last
October 23, 2023∙ Paid
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Where’s Waldo: Can you find all the beneficiaries of Biden’s economy in this picture? (Hint: It’s all of them) (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

1. Oh, Yeah

I want to start by saying that Sarah Longwell’s The Focus Group is an amazing show and incredibly valuable for understanding the invisible currents which shape public opinion. You should absolutely listen to it (or watch it).

That said, I have this fantasy where Sarah lets me hang out in the control room, behind the mirror, while The People tell us what they think and at some point I lose it and go busting through the wall like the Kool-Aid man to . . . dialogue with them.

So let’s live out my fantasy, right here, today.

We’ll start out with what a couple of Trump-to-Biden voters had to say about the economy under the Biden administration.

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