USAToday Poll: Biden's Political Sphincter Slackens As He Loses the Ability to Retain Electoral Stools

USA Today's new poll shows Biden's approval rating sharting right past his underwear and squirting right past the flexible gathers of his Depends.

Biden's approval is at a woeful 38%. His disapproval is 59%.

A year before the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans hold a clear lead on the congressional ballot as President Joe Biden's approval rating sinks to a new low of 38%.

A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, taken Wednesday through Friday, found that Biden's support cratered among the independent voters who delivered his margin of victory over President Donald Trump one year ago.

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Among the findings:

Nearly half of those surveyed, 46%, say Biden has done a worse job as president than they expected, including 16% of those who voted for him. Independents, by 7-1 (44%-6%), say he's done worse, not better, than they expected.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans, 64%, say they don't want Biden to run for a second term in 2024. That includes 28% of Democrats. Opposition to Trump running for another term in 2024 stands at 58%, including 24% of Republicans.

Kumala's approval rating is ten points worse!

Vice President Kamala Harris' approval rating is 28% -- even worse than Biden's. The poll shows that 51% disapprove of the job she's doing. One in 5, 21%, are undecided.

Americans overwhelmingly support the infrastructure bill Biden is about to sign, but they are split on the more expensive and further-reaching "Build Back Better" act being debated in Congress. Only 1 in 4 say the bill's provisions would help them and their families.

If the election were today, those surveyed say, they would vote for their Republican congressional candidate over the Democratic one by 46%-38%, an advantage that would bode well for GOP hopes of gaining a majority in the House and the Senate. In a president's first midterm election, his party usually loses ground, and this time the GOP needs to flip just five seats in the House and one in the Senate to claim control.

Speaking of that "infrastructure" bill, the progressives refused to vote for it, which would have doomed it, save a miracle.

You wanted a miracle? I give you the G. O. P.

[P]elosi, the Democratic Party, and Joe Biden were rescued by 13 Republican House members who wanted some pork to show the folks back home that it wasn’t all fun and games in Washington and that Congress actually did some work every once in a while.

Even National Review's clucking little cvck Phillip Klein called this a "betrayal."

This wasn't just an infrastructure bill -- it was loaded with non-infrastructure leftwing agenda items, as well as just general wasteful pork.

But the G. O. P. has to prove it is Fwenz with leftwing Democrats. This they continue to believe is a selling point.

Here are the names of the traitors. Most of the name will be of no surprise to you -- and many are retiring, so they feel free now to show they've always been servitors of the Liberal Democrat Welfare God-State.

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick

Representative Don Bacon

Representative Don Young

Representative Fred Upton

Representative Adam Kinzinger

Representative Jeff Van Drew

Representative John Katko

Representative Tom Reed

Representative Andrew Garbarino

Representative Nicole Malliotakis

Representative Chris Smith

Representative David McKinley

Representative Anthony Gonzalez

Liz Cheney isn't on the list because she's pretending to be An True Conservative, and also because she was out of the office that day to get botox injections to thicken and lengthen her luxurious jowls.

(Visual gravitas, suggests Aetius451AD.)

This Coalition of the Shilling could have voted no and forced the Democrats to accept a truly clean bill dedicated entirely to actual infrastucture.

But it's very, very important for Republicans to show they can be Good Little Democrats.

This is why we lose, and this is why there is no political future for the conservative movement until the GOP is Repealed and Replaced, as they refused to do with Obamacare.

Back to the poll:

An interesting inversion as far as rating of the congressional parties: While Congress always get dismal rating, Democrats always get higher ratings, usually by 7-10 points.

Not now:

In the poll, Congress gets dismal ratings: 12% approve, 75% disapprove. Congressional Democrats have a 29% favorable rating; congressional Republicans 35%.

Biden's job approval rating is dismal, too, at 38% approve, 59% disapprove. He has the lowest rating of any modern president at this point in his term except Trump. Studies have concluded that a president's job approval rating is one of the most powerful factors affecting midterm elections.

The party of a president with an approval rating that has dipped below 50% often faces a blowout. In the 2017 midterms, when Trump's approval was at 37%, Republicans lost 41 House seats. In the 1994 midterms, when President Bill Clinton's approval was at 48%, Democrats lost 54.

The GOP leads on the generic Congressional ballot question -- the question of which party you intend to vote for for congress -- 46 to 38. The Democrats had previously led on this question, as they usually do.

Check out RealClearPolitics, and hit the "See More" button at the bottom of the table, to see how this number has shifted from Democrats leading to Democrats falling behind.

81 million votes, friends:

Meanwhile: ESPN is protecting Biden. Of course.

Jewish Deplorable @TrumpJew2

BREAKING: Viewers complaining about muted crowd noise on ESPN for Alabama-LSU game, possibly due to anti-Biden chants

From October 30:

NASCAR and NBC have since taken steps to limit "ambient crowd noise" during interviews, but it was too late -- the phrase already had taken off.

But two years of kneeling protests and woke messaging is just fine.

Meanwhile, NASCAR denounces the "Let's Go Brandon" motto, and promises to "pursue" anyone using the phrase in connection with its logos.

Now, this isn't as bad as it seems. Any company does have a strong interest in defending its trademarks from any unapproved use.

Still, isn't it odd that we've finally found one case where a sports league takes a firm stand against Divisive Political Messaging, eh?

posted by Ace at 12:24 PM

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