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Originally Posted by Ghost Econ
Further, if it's as simple as "the economy, stupid" then I still don't see how you vote Republican. Look at the Stock Market thread. Everyone knew Trump was goosing the economy as much as humanly possible. We all knew there was a good chance it would explode a year or two after Biden got in office. But like COVID, the people who are there now gets blamed instead of the people who actually fumbled things to begin with.
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I disagree with this. It is true that Biden doesn't get all the blame, but 2 years in, he gets the majority of the blame for the economy (let's say 80-20). He made his choices (including renominating Powell, including believing in transitory inflation etc.).
For Covid, there was a stat that like-for-like (e.g. approx. # of months), Biden had more deaths even after a vaccine was available.
Overall, Biden is certainly better than Trump. But I'm not going to absolve him for this economy (either through his actions or inactions).