Biden approval ratings thread, 1.0

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Trump has abruptly collapsed like a rag doll in the RCP average. He's now at the lowest since January 2018. This is the first time in years if not ever that he's broken through so many multiple previous lows. People who stuck with him through the worst of Mueller, the 2018-19 government shutdown, the Ukraine scandal, George Floyd and Covid are now abandoning him.

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This is wild. Just wow.

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Biden is popular in the states he won and Trump is popular in the states he won, Biden at ,55% is overstated.

Job numbers came out with 49K they are brutal

That's the last month of Trump. Survey was done in mid-Jan. so Trump was still in office.

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Obama's honeymoon lasted through May and then I remember by mid-summer you started seeing these really scary Tea Party crowds crashing town halls and just going nuts. If Biden's actually doing well or if it's a honeymoon we won't really know until the fall though.

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She's gonna get blanched.

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Biden's immigration numbers have been improving since late April.

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I can't believe people are still dismissing Trafalgar polls when Republicans have outperformed the polls in all but one election in the past nine years.

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Biden has the potential to be a good president still, but he needs to start focusing less on foreign policy and divisive social issues and more on improving the lives of the broad masses of the American people on a day to day basis. He also needs to stop putting out meaningless wishlists for Congress and start focusing more in what he can do within his administrative power to help people in a tangible way.

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Biden has the potential to be a good president still, but he needs to start focusing less on foreign policy and divisive social issues and more on improving the lives of the broad masses of the American people on a day to day basis. He also needs to stop putting out meaningless wishlists for Congress and start focusing more in what he can do within his administrative power to help people in a tangible way.

When was he focusing on divisive social issues?

Guns, abortion, and Jan. 6th seem to be the Democratic message. Not that these issues are entirely against them (imo the public is somewhat--although not entirely-- sympathetic to the Democratic positions) but this stuff will all be drowned out by the bad economy.

The bottom line is people want Biden to be doing 20 things at once. to be frank, there is just a lot of sh*t going on right now and he's being pulled in a million different directions. People act like it's feasible to be able to handle all of these things perfectly at once when there's so much going on.

Trump never had to deal with a 1/5th of this type of stuff, for most of his 4 years, until COVID hit, he really never had to deal with any crises out of his own making at all.

Huh? Biden and Trump both inherited a decent economy. Trump also had his share of mass shootings and Supreme Court controversies. Trump also had to deal with the George Floyd riots.

The bottom line is actually that "the buck stops here" as Harry Truman  used to say. Even if you're right that Trump just had perfectly smooth sailing and clear skies for four years (not true) while Biden is dealing with 5,000 problems, the public will still put the responsibility on the president to do something, and the voting public, like the customer, is always right. We just had the biggest drop in real wages in decades and it's reasonable for people to be unhappy about that. As a Democrat, pointing fingers and making excuses isn't going to save them no matter if they are true or not. It's the president and Congress's job to act and do what they can, and make a convincing affirmative case for why they are going to do a better job than the Republicans.

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Biden approval on economy hits new low: poll

President Biden’s economic approval ratings have hit a record low for his presidency — and surpassed the lowest ratings of the previous two presidents, new polling shows.

A CNBC All-America Economic survey put Biden’s economic approval rating at 30 percent, 5 points below a previous survey in April.

That number is also 11 points below the low for former President Trump and 7 points below the lowest for former President Obama. The survey has been distributed for 15 years, but the latest results include “the worst economic outlook measures CNBC has recorded,” the report concludes.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3563946-biden-approval-on-economy-hits-new-low-poll/