We’re THREE Weeks out from Election Day 2024….
People ARE ALREADY voting….
The polls have Harris/Walz ahead by a slim margin….
The main thing voters say they are concerned about IS the Economy….
The “experts’ say it’s actually a pretty good one….
I have complained here about the ‘expert’s’ and what I feel….
For me this HAS been about High consumer prices and interest rates…..
Well?
Gas prices around my way have dropped by almost a Dollar a gallon…
My wife and I where shopping in the local Stop and Shop and the sales stickers where ALL over the shelves….
Home interest rates are @ arount 6.5% which is higher that a few years ago….
But have actually been cut by a percent or two….
The biggest thing HAS been employment….
Were I work and from everyone I hear from?
Workers ARE needed…..
I mean EVERYWHERE from Cops, Cooks, School employyees’, food business’s …..
EVERYWHERE….
President’s don’t actually have anything with the economy….
If they did?
They’d wait until a few minths out from their second term campaign and then drop the intereste rates, send out checks, and order sales at the super markets…..
Biden and Harris are driving the place right now….
Trump wants to cut everything you might want oif ya vote for him…
Last time he left a rexcession for Biden to pump money into to keep the bottom from falling…
I don’t how Donald Trump would do any better as President….
I mean the guy is out selling sneakers andd watches?
If people are actually buying his stuff?
The economy MUST BE doing good, eh?
Sooooo?
Vote FOR them driving the Bus right now….
Democrats….
Vice President Harris…..
Polarization in the United States makes it difficult to talk about any truth, even about the economy. Last Friday’s jobs report surpassed all expectations. As soon as it came out, Republicans such as Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida tried calling it fake. In reality, even if the report is later revised down, it will still show an economy that is humming along. And consider the bigger picture: The United States has nearly 7 million morejobs than it did before the pandemic, and the largest share of 25-to-54-year-olds working since 2001. Many experts didn’t think it even possible for the labor market to become this robust again. Some theories considered Americans too addicted to video games or drugs, or simply too lazy to work. The jobs rebound has proved the experts wrong.
The story on inflation is similar. Two years ago, economists were predicting a recession. Many said it was impossible to lower inflation without a downturn and widespread job losses. Yet we are living through this miracle. Report after report shows inflation cooling off. On Thursday, we learned that inflation has cooled to 2.4 percent. It’s so close to the 2 percent target again even Federal Reserve officials aren’t that worried about it anymore. And there is no recession in sight….
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The best metric to watch is consumer spending. Even as Americans tell pollsters they are gloomy, they keep on spending — especially on eating out, visits to amusement parks and pumpkin patches, and tickets to concerts and sports events. This is yet another signal of a healthy economy….
jamesb says
New Open Thread is HERE….
Ghost of SE says
A close up on how the meteorological profession is handling the flurry of baseless conspiracies.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/
jamesb says
Morning All…….
24 days ot…….
Polls still showing close one with Harris ahead
Ghost of SE says
Joe Scarborough, Doug Emhoff, and Michael Stipe of REM were at a record store in Athens, GA, today or yesterday. I was in Athens yesterday at a different record store. Blue with envy!
jamesb says
Close….
But NO Cigar!
Ghost of SE says
If I had been there, I could have been the third best person in the room after Emhoff and Stipe. Whether myself or anyone else on here, anyone is better than the pantload Scarborough.
jamesb says
After the Secret Service agents….
Ghost of SE says
After all their scandals? Meh.
jamesb says
WSJ is out with leads for Harris in Georgia and Arizona
Ghost of SE says
They’re a right wing rag, not to mention they were voted “America’s Most Boring Newspaper” in the poll of Me, Myself, and I. It is a very good sign that even they can’t create a Trump lead.
jamesb says
I told our guy her
Harris IS LEADING
jamesb says
Update…
Swing state voters are almost evenly split in the 2024 presidential race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released Friday.
Harris had slender leads in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, places where third-party and independent candidates are on the ballot. Trump had leads in Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania….
More @ The Hill…
jamesb says
Morning……..
jamesb says
I totally agree with the professional economists view on President’s and the economy….
They are powerless on it….
But their fortunes ride on it in a LOT of people’s minds
jamesb says
24 Days untill November 5 Election day….
jamesb says
Anyone else getting TONS of Harris/Democratic donations emails?
jamesb says
Morning……
23 days out from Election day….
Ghost of SE says
Should have picked today for my trip into Athens.
https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/10/11/julia-roberts-and-michael-stipe-join-doug-emhoff-pitch-for-harris-in-atlanta-and
My Name Is Jack says
For sure probably most voters cast their vote on the basis of that broad term,” the economy.”
Forever immortalized by James Carvilles early 90s dictum,” it’s the economy stupid,”presidential campaigns, particularly by the out of power party, are now built around such ,even if they don’t use the term.
As for myself, I have always preferred the slogan that many professional economists often use,”Presidents get way too much credit for a good economy and way too much blame for a bad economy.” Indeed, there exist a myriad of factors that go into the “ economy,”many beyond the control of whoever happens to be President.
In our present society however the above is not politically “ correct” in a manner of speaking. No, whether one’s perspective is the “ economy “ be good or bad?Its all because of who is President.See no need for more technical economic explanations that can cause one’s eyes to glaze over .Its all ( fill in the blank as to the name of the President ) fault!
Ain’t politics great!
My Name Is Jack says
A friend of mine from Out west asked me the other day if I had read Jed Vance’s book, “ Hillbilly Elegy.”
I told him I hadn’t as I was from South Carolina and I was already well acquainted with “ White Trash” and the unofficial state motto is “ thank God for Mississippi .”
Didn’t need to read about it.
He laughed.
Ghost of SE says
This book provides a better, non embellished look at the subject matter than Vance’s. Author also wrote a good book on Aaron Burr.
https://www.amazon.com/White-Trash-400-Year-History-America/dp/0143129678/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=53516242262&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.l4Wmr540ArVk7adABitiTBi8QaT9Ukz5K8f5q1GKAeHXKyKngZTN-4qSpF0BGyLvYPg6A2CB4mP4U8Da6wC9xw.rfsKJwqmvAT5yel8f3ogT43TrrWOTLwfFSxUJLoV5lM&dib_tag=se&hvadid=580884279548&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9011027&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11796128079029080991&hvtargid=kwd-375221194548&hydadcr=15149_13523058&keywords=400+years+of+white+trash&qid=1728740266&sr=8-1
My Name Is Jack says
I read the Burr book years ago.
I think it came out around 2007 or 2008.
Ghost of SE says
New episode dropped. Always a good third eye view of the political landscape, in the US and abroad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qv-Z4ZI-w7U&t=382s
Ghost of SE says
24 days to the election, actually.
Ghost of SE says
I see James corrected that comment. Oops on both out parts.
jamesb says
Actually 23.5 days as of RIGHT NOW…..
He, he, he….
jamesb says
Trump on Twitter…..
‘I HATE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’
jamesb says
Is there a HIDDEN message in this twitter tweet?
Ghost of SE says
Not exactly hidden what he’s getting at, James.
Ghost of SE says
A race I’m keeping an eye on is the Republican on Republican General Election in Western Louisiana between House Speaker Mike Johnson and a hardcore MAGA lunatic. House Republicans have been fraught with internal strife ever since the party narrowly regained the House. While Johnson, not unlike his predecessor McCarthy, is an unusually base figure even by the low standards of past luminaries of the House GOP(Gingrich, DeLay, Hastert, Boehner, Ryan), he has still taken a public stand against the overtly racist tweets of several back bench members, to say nothing of the deal he rightly cut on Ukraine funding.
Of course, this is window dressing. As James Carville recently said, “When the man from Benton is your racial progressive, you’re in trouble.” But the party faithful heard the message, and aren’t happy. Now, he’s posturing by holding up disaster aid in Congress. But when people hold grudges, they don’t generally go away within a few weeks.
Democrats in that district, who poll around a third of the district vote, have an unenviable task in deciding how to swing that election. A powerfully dishonest pissant versus a quixotic turd. To echo another poster on this board, we need to see the party in all its ugliness and shame. And a lack of power next to that shamefulness is a plus. Whatever is done in that district, may it be done ugly but right.
Also, a new interview with the Speaker. Among other things, he’s flip flopping on Ukraine. https://punchbowl.news/article/house/mike-johnson-nearly-one-year-as-speaker/
jamesb says
Johnson gonna do WHATEVER to try to keep his spot from going to Jeffries……
I THINK it ain’t gonna work…..
But I could be wrong….
Ghost of SE says
Post in moderation regarding Speaker Mike Johnson.
Ghost of SE says
Raise a glass today for our departed friend Steve Zrebiec(Zreebs), two years gone today.
To a forward thinking man who stood against bigotry and exclusion in all its forms.
jamesb says
Here…HERE‼️