A recent spate of polling paints a bad picture of declining support for the president from voters of color. But just how worrisome is it?
Well, for one, Biden’s the guy who penned the crime bill that pipelines our communities to carceral slavery. For two, Biden’s the guy who picked a fucking cop-- and not just any cop, California’s “Top Cop” to be his VP. For three, he’s a strike-breaker-- some ‘pro-union’ president we have. I wholly expect him to torpedo the UAW strike too, within the month; regardless of whatever mealymouthed ‘backing’ he’s given the UAW for the cameras.
All in all, I still haven’t been given good reason to vote for the walking cadaver. And no, your personal boogeyman is not good enough.
You can tell this long article was written by a political junkie. Most voters, minority or not, don’t pay attention to the political horse race, they judge the government on the economy. Inflation and high gas prices are the two things they hate most of all, and even if it’s not entirely Joe Biden’s fault, too bad; that’s just how presidents are judged. No mystery there.
That doesn’t explain why he’s doing so poorly with these specific groups, who have been reliably Democratic voting in the past.
But the trend is in line with the trend in the rest of the population. So the basic hypothesis should be that the things driving Biden’s unpopularity in the broader electorate are also hurting him among minorities. Going beyond that, inflation is known to hurt economically disadvantaged groups more than others.
