Biden's Average Approval Rating Sinks Into the Thirties

He hit another new low, this one in the Morning Consult poll.

Note that when we speak of new low, we're generally speaking of lows in that particular firm's polling history. That's how Biden is always racking up so many fresh lows.

The Morning Consult skews Democrat, IIRC.

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The latest survey found that 58% of voters disapprove of Biden's job performance and 39% approve. It marks the 46th president's lowest approval rating and highest disapproval rating in 62 weekly surveys conducted since he took office in January 2021.

For comparison, Biden's latest numbers are worse than Donald Trump's were at this time four years ago, when 45% approved and 52% disapproved of the former president. Biden's popularity, or lack thereof, mirrors Trump's standing in June 2020, when the nation was grappling with the twin crises of the pandemic and the response to the murder of George Floyd.

Republicans are far more strident in their disdain for Biden than Democrats are in their support: 80% of GOP voters "strongly disapprove" of Biden's job handling, compared with 37% of Democrats who "strongly approve" of it.

I "strongly approve" of Donkey-Chompers posting "candids" with her new boyfriend, Oral Sex Phantom.

Maybe she's just chugging a delicious Invisible Yoo-Hoo. Who can say for certain.

The poll finds the parties tied 42-42 on the congressional ballot question but the poll skews Democrat (IIRC) and besides, the Democrats need to be leading on this question by at least two or three points to even be competitive.

Quinippiac's new poll is so bad I'd say it must be an outlier, except for the fact it's about Joe Biden, we've seen numbers about this low for him before: They find that his approval rating has now fallen to 33%, with 55% disapproving.

Americans give President Joe Biden a negative 33 - 55 percent job approval rating with 12 percent not offering an opinion. Biden's 33 percent job approval among Americans ties the low that he received in Quinnipiac University national polls on April 13, 2022 and January 12, 2022.

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Americans were asked about President Biden's handling of...

the response to the coronavirus: 47 percent approve, while 46 percent disapprove;

the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine: 42 percent approve, while 50 percent disapprove;

gun violence: 32 percent approve, while 59 percent disapprove;

the economy: 28 percent approve, while 64 percent disapprove.

MOST URGENT ISSUE

Americans say inflation (34 percent) is the most urgent issue facing the country today followed by gun violence (17 percent).

Among Republicans, the top issues are inflation (46 percent) followed by immigration (14 percent). No other issue reached double digits.

Among Democrats, the top issues are gun violence (31 percent) followed by inflation (15 percent) and election laws (11 percent).

Among independents, the top issues are inflation (37 percent) followed by gun violence (16 percent). No other issue reached double digits.

As far as control of Congress, 46% want the GOP to win control of Congress, while 41% want Democrats to win. That sounds a lot more reasonable than the Morning Consult's claimed 42-42 tie.

Meanwhile, Democrats are increasingly frustrated with the old incompetent r@pist they "fortified the election" to install in the White House.

Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated by what they say is a flat-footed White House that is slow to catch up on solving a seemingly never-ending cascade of problems in the face of an unrelenting news cycle.

They point to the recent baby formula shortage as the latest example of how President Biden has failed to get ahead of the story, allowing Republicans to set the narrative as yet another failure for the White House. But they also highlighted Biden's lag on other issues at the top of voter's minds: inflation and gas prices.

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"It's really simple: 'Be the f--ing president!," said one Democratic strategist frustrated by the administration. "I realize it's tough and you're drinking out of a fire hose every single day, but there are things you can do to control the public perception and they haven't done any of that."

Yes that's right, Paper-Pusher: It's all just about changing perceptions. There is absolutely no underlying reality. There are no hard facts that must be confronted. Everything is just a matter of wordsmithing the right catchphrases and social media zingers, right?

Democratic strategist Christy Setzer said the White House has shown some naivete in recent months in trying to control the message.

"It may come down to not understanding what they're up against -- both the media environment and today's GOP," Setzer said. "Biden did speak out on guns, on baby formula, on inflation ... but the traditional tactics aren't breaking through, and it doesn't seem as though they're taking in that information, re-trenching, and trying new approaches when it's falling flat."

The Democrat Party is filled with academics and wordsmiths and pollsters and paper-pushers and has very few people who actually do things, so they just cannot conceive of actual real-world problems which require actual real-world fixes. Everything is just a matter of "new approaches" of "messaging." Just slapping new labels and new superlatives on to old bottles of snake-oil.

Case in point: The Democrat Party had the opportunity to ask Janet Yellen about a real-world problem that is part of her portfolio, inflation.

She recently admitted she was wrong to say that inflation would not be a problem, and then, when it showed itself to be a problem, to downplay it as "transitory."

Instead, they chose to help her with "messaging," by allowing her to opine about virtually every other subject under the sun, including gun violence, climate change, and abortion.

Everything but inflation, the big problem that's actually a central concern to the Treasury Department she heads.

But don't worry -- she has a plan.

Although she says she expects inflation to remain "high," her plan for dealing with this high inflation to "very much hope" that it will come down.

Oh, you're going to very much hope that inflation comes down? See, I didn't realize you were going to very much hope it would come down. I didn't know you were breaking out the big economic guns like that.

Apologies for having doubted you.

Via Twitchy: I didn't even realize this.

Biden has chosen to make no comment whatsoever about one of his communist fellow-travelers attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court Justice.

They straight up encourage violence from their fellow radicals. They just refuse to condemn it, or even acknowledge it.

posted by Ace at 05:57 PM

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