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The US is factually not in a recession. Pointing this out is not being elitist nor is it "not listening to Americans". There's clearly a huge misunderstanding of what the word recession means coupled with a serious disinfo problem.

The thing is all of this doesn't really matter.

Because what matters is purchasing power and if people feel life goods are becoming more expensive and if the party in power ignores purchasing power of people (which also drives economy) than people will start to believe there is a recession, because well for them it is.

It also seems to differ from state to state whether there is a recession or not. Someone pointed out than the Sun Belt states are in a recession while the Midwestern states are less so.

So recessions are just feels now. That's not how it works or how its ever worked. Just say things are expensive.

I doubt most people even know what a recession is or what factually counts as a recession, but it doesn't mean that peoples worries aren't justified.

How would Canada excluding Quebec compare?

Anglo-Canada is literally just the U.S., but with single-payer, universal healthcare, more hockey, and fewer guns.

To no surprise, according to the crosstabs, Kamala Harris would do even more poorly vs Trump than Biden. She just can't take a break.

The US is factually not in a recession. Pointing this out is not being elitist nor is it "not listening to Americans". There's clearly a huge misunderstanding of what the word recession means coupled with a serious disinfo problem.

The thing is all of this doesn't really matter.

Because what matters is purchasing power and if people feel life goods are becoming more expensive and if the party in power ignores purchasing power of people (which also drives economy) than people will start to believe there is a recession, because well for them it is.

It also seems to differ from state to state whether there is a recession or not. Someone pointed out than the Sun Belt states are in a recession while the Midwestern states are less so.

So recessions are just feels now. That's not how it works or how its ever worked. Just say things are expensive.

The US is factually not in a recession. Pointing this out is not being elitist nor is it "not listening to Americans". There's clearly a huge misunderstanding of what the word recession means coupled with a serious disinfo problem.

The thing is all of this doesn't really matter.

Because what matters is purchasing power and if people feel life goods are becoming more expensive and if the party in power ignores purchasing power of people (which also drives economy) than people will start to believe there is a recession, because well for them it is.

It also seems to differ from state to state whether there is a recession or not. Someone pointed out than the Sun Belt states are in a recession while the Midwestern states are less so.

Eventually some people will vote with their wallet and compare 2016-2020 to 2020-2024 and they'll eventually go with Trump because of that.

The only people who like, let alone love, her are…AZ Republicans. So I don’t see her losing an AZ Republican primary.

Wasn't there a McLaughin poll from 2 days ago that was a tie? Is this a different one?

That was a sponsored poll.

This one is just mclauglhin,

interestingly, both biden and trump lost 2 points of support, margin remaining same, from last month's mclaughlin poll.

[because they had nothing to do that day]

Neither (sane)

Yeah, I guess all those people ran into the capitol building because they had nothing to do that day and not because their cult leader told them to.

....yes?  A major contributing factor for all the protests (including the Capitol riot) that happened in 2020-21 were that covid lockdowns, mass unemployment, and "work from home" made people really bored and agitated.  Most of the Floyd protesters and January 6th rioters were just looking for something to do.   

Texas?

Wasn't there a McLaughin poll from 2 days ago that was a tie? Is this a different one?