Welcome to BoingBoing. Typically, we don’t throw insults like that around. It’s rude.
It was the story because the media ignored his administration’s accomplishments (see dozens of articles and discussions here) because competence is boring and made it the story. I know general presidential elections are far apart, so people forget how they work, but we’re 5 months out from Election Day. Biden had barely begun to campaign at this point. The bulk of the campaign fund get spent in the last 45 days before Election Day. The media drives the narrative leading into that period, but campaigns start driving the narrative as Election Day approaches.
The claim “you can’t come back from this” is ludicrous.
There are, though - past elections. We can gauge the accuracy of polls by comparing them to election results in other areas (US special elections, past elections, the UK, France). Those comparisons show a significant rightward lean in poll results.
Undemocratic! Undemocratic! Undemocratic! Undemocratic!
Anyone could have run against Biden in the primaries. You know what they all knew? That he is 81. That wasn’t a surprise. If age was a concern, all the folks who have been put forward as possible replacements could have stepped up then. You know that several of them were dipping their toes in the water, right? Newsom for sure was getting poll numbers vs T**** to gauge a run. Those numbers didn’t look good or he would have run. None of this happens in a vacuum. Your take on this is ahistorical and naive.
That’s the only part of this we agree upon.
