Joe Biden is… uh, back? After being pretty MIA last week, the former vice president made sure that his face was on every conceivable screen imaginable this week. And now that he has a studio set up in his home, there’s no excuse for Biden to hide from the American people nor his role as assumed Democratic nominee for president. But it’s been a rough campaign pivot for Biden. In a piece titled “Inside Joe Biden’s Bizarre Coronavirus Bunker,” Politico reports that the campaign has been trying to make digital campaigning more effective while competing with President Trump and even Governor Cuomo for airtime. They’re even looking back at the Spanish Flu of 1918 to make some sense of what’s going on and what to expect with the campaign moving forward–because shit is sideways, folks.
From Politico:
They’ve been studying the midterms of 1918, the year of the Spanish flu pandemic when large gatherings were banned in many places and candidates were forced to invent new ways to communicate with voters and run their campaigns. Turnout plummeted that year to 40%, from 50% in the 1914 midterms.“We went back and looked at voting in 1918,” said Anita Dunn, one of Biden’s top advisers, “where of course turnout was down, but the election was still held, and Congress was still seated.”
Turnout may be fucked this year, but Biden is determined to win the hearts and minds of Americans. And he’s going to do it by… starting a podcast!
Yes.
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