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Jrubas t1_j60gm6k wrote

People aren't paying attention to him because CNN, MSNBC, and other news outlets aren't hyping up every little thing he does wrong. Fox News does but outside of that, Biden operates with impunity. Imagine if the Ashleigh Biden diary was being given the same amount of coverage as anything Trump did. Imagine if the Hunter Biden laptop story wasn't covered up and banned from social media the way it was. Imagine if you had a thousand doomsayers picking apart Biden's mental and physical health all day, every day. I guarantee you that more people would be like "hmmm, what's this all about? I better look it up."

Though I'll give you this: At this point, a lot of people are tired of hearing about Trump *and* Biden. That's a big factor as well.

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cowboy_dude_6 t1_j60c9n5 wrote

Format is a default excel bar chart. You didn’t even bother to change the font or color. Both axes are literally titled ā€œaxis titleā€. The data is from 1991. The most interesting and relevant information is at the bottom, buried under a sea of obscure languages. Data is fucking ugly.

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Jrubas t1_j60an91 wrote

A good part of the reason is that the media treats Joe Biden with a level of care and delicacy that they didn’t use with Trump. I’m not defending Donald Trump, he made a lot of his own controversies, but don’t sit here and pretend that the media isn’t every bit the left-wing attack dog it’s been made out to be. Donald Trump gained, like, five pounds, and the media went on for days about how unhealthy and unfit he was. Joe Biden literally stumbles around like he’s lost and talks out of his head about record players and leg hair, and no one bats an eye. He sat there, an ancient man with glowing pale skin, and told black people that they weren’t black if they didn’t vote for him. He got a teensy little slap on the wrist for it, nothing more.

If the media spent as much time on Biden’s failings as they did Trump’s, I’m sure that little blue line would be a bit higher. The problem is that they don’t. Look no further than when Katie Couric covered up comments by RBG ā€œto protect her reputation.ā€

That’s the media in a nutshell. Covering up for Democrats to protect their reputations.

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nsnyder t1_j60a56r wrote

No one knows or cares what the media is saying about him, the whole point of this graph is that people just aren't paying much attention to him. He's not a reality TV star and the news is back to being boring stuff no one watches rather than competing with reality TV.

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Premise_Data OP t1_j608jhe wrote

Contributors in 135 countries around the world work with Premise to share their opinion and collect field data on a variety of topics using its smart-phone app.

These data were collected in bi-weekly waves covering November to January from a total of 10,206 respondents in the US. Premise used stratified sampling of its opt-in panel members, along with post stratification weighting on age, gender, region, and education to construct a representative sample.

  • Inflation was not included in the first wave of this study, but at least 40% of people cite the economy or inflation as the most important issue in each wave.
  • Health care is always the third most important issue, but has never been chosen as the most important issue by more than 9% of people.
  • Despite recent increases in discussion of the Ukraine War, foreign policy received it’s lowest percentage yet in the most recent wave of this study with less than 1% citing it as the most important issue.

This figure was created using ggplot2 and gganimate in R.

A version of the figure focusing on issues besides the economy or inflation can be found here.

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Jrubas t1_j60862y wrote

More like the media is downplaying his constant stumbles, bumbles, and controversies whereas with Trump, they shoved them down everyone's throat on an endless loop. Let's not forget that if Trump gained five pounds, the media would pounce on it, but Biden can stumble around talking out of his head about record players and his hairy legs, and the media give him a slow clap.

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