Polls Have More Bad News for the Party of Failure and Fear

This Yale Poll is. Stunning. And Brave.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

YALE POLL...

Women, aged 18-21 (middle Gen Z): 🔴 R+4

This is monumental.

This is madness for the Democrats.

Not white women. American women at-large, 18-21. All races, religions (or lack thereof), etc.

I think it might get worse.

BTW - this group was basically destroyed by the Democrats during COVID in school. Might have something to do with it.

Young voters have little confidence in congressional Democrats, a Harvard poll says.

Only 31% of young voters approve of Trump and a similarly low percentage approve of Republicans, but that's always the case. The big news is the "nosedive" in approval for Democrats.

Fewer than one in three young Americans approve of the job President Donald Trump and Congress are doing, according to a new national poll from the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.

But while the approval ratings for Trump and congressional Republicans have mostly stayed consistent since the start of the president's first administration eight years ago, the 50th Harvard Youth Poll indicates that approval ratings for Democrats in Congress among Americans aged 18-29 have nosedived.

According to Harvard's annual spring survey, which was conducted March 14-25 and released on Wednesday, the approval rating for congressional Democrats stands at 23%, down from 42% in the spring of 2017 at the start of Trump's first term.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for a press conference at the Capitol on Feb. 12, 2025. A new poll suggests congressional Democrats' approval ratings have plunged. (AP/Rod Lamkey Jr.)

"In that same period, approval of Congressional Republicans has held steady, inching up slightly from 28% to 29%," the poll's release notes.

And the approval rating for Trump, who next week marks 100 days into his second tour of duty in the White House, stands at 31% in the new survey.

The release highlights that Trump's numbers are "virtually unchanged from the 32% reported in Spring 2017 and the 29% recorded in Fall 2020."

Harvard's survey is the latest to indicate troubling numbers for the Democrats.

The confidence rating for Democrat leadership in Congress stood at a record-low 25% in a Gallup poll conducted April 1-14 and released last week. That's nine points below the previous low of 34%, which was recorded in 2023.

Fueling the drop in confidence in the Democrat congressional leadership was a 41-point plunge among Democrats questioned in the Gallup survey.

National polls conducted in February by Quinnipiac University, and last month by CNN and by NBC News, indicated the favorable ratings for the Democratic Party sinking to all-time lows.

A Democrat strategist has more bad news for his fellow Democrats.

Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik didn't sugarcoat the situation during a conversation with Mark Halperin on 2WAY....

First, Sosnik pointed to the seismic shift in party affiliation. "The electorate in 2024 was 6% less Democratic than compared to four years ago," Halperin noted, asking if that level of movement was historically significant. Sosnik didn't mince words: "The shift is significant, but more importantly... I can't remember the last time that people who voted on Election Day -- the majority, uh, plurality of them -- were Democrats." He continued, "It shows a real erosion for the Democratic Party," noting that many of the Democrats who backed Biden in 2020 simply didn't show up this time around.

I don't want to spread any Russian Conspiracy Theories, but is it possible that many of the "Democrats who showed up for Biden in 2020" didn't show up this time for the simple reason that they never existed? And that these fake votes were counted in 2020 only because states removed all voter integrity safeguards in the biggest, most criminal political op in American history?

I denounce myself for asking very obvious questions (which suggest very obvious answers).

That drop-off was made even more glaring when coupled with the latest favorability ratings. "Lowest net favorable rating since the '90s," Halperin remarked, prompting Sosnik to outline a trifecta of disasters driving the collapse in support: inflation, immigration, and cultural arrogance.

On the economic front, Sosnik admitted, "We had the worst inflation in America since the early 1980s." He added that by the time Election Day arrived, "everything... was on average 20% higher than when Biden took office." That kind of economic pain, Sosnik argued, doesn't just dent a party; it shatters its credibility.

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Then came the cultural disconnect, the sense that Democrats had abandoned everyday Americans in favor of elite ideologies. "A lot of people in America in the middle of the country thought Democrats were looking down on them," Sosnik said bluntly. He attributed part of that disconnect to "how they talked, issues they cared about, all the DEI programs." The result? A broadening sense among voters that Democrats "weren't competent to govern."

See the article for his thoughts about Democrats' embrace of the lawlessness of an open border. American voters realized that the Democrats cared nothing for their safety and prosperity, only for foreign non-voters. (Supposedly they're non-voters, anyway.)

The Democrats' absolute commitment to championing an MS-13 wife-beater does nothing to disturb that impression.

posted by Ace at 05:27 PM

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