# Kamala Harris and the runup to the 2024 Presidential Election {No more on Guns}

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Yeah, it’s weird, but it could end up making the economy look better to voters.

We had a long discussion on the subject here in P&E:

> [@It's the economy stupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-economy-stupid/988866):
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> Famous line by James Carville, during the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. I was living in Little Rock during that time and met Carville at lunch one day at a downtown eatery. Interesting man and strategist. He was right, and I believe his axiom still holds a lot of water. If so, I don’t believe it’s going to bode well for Biden. ““Our economy is the lowest it’s been in god knows how long,” said a Hispanic respondent who lives in New Jersey. “We keep [sending] money to Ukraine and othe…

Often people expressed frustration that polls were showing that everyone thought the economy was a disaster, even if the facts were otherwise. If that’s flipping the other way, it would be great timing.

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