Voters Don’t Credit Biden for Their $1400 Stimulus Checks—and That’s Okay
In 2009, President Obama got no public credit for the crisis relief in his stimulus bill. A dozen years later, Joe Biden vowed not to make the same mistake. Where Obama slipped stimulus dollars quietly into paychecks with reduced withholding payments, Biden sent stand-alone checks. Where Obama waged no sustained marketing campaign to sell his American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...