PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll
Biden’s popularity is plunging according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.
As President Joe Biden heads into the end of the year, he’s facing a sour reality: The number of Americans who approve of his performance has hit a new low. Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job he has been doing as president, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. Support among independents alone dropped eight points in a week.
Overall, more than half – 55 percent – of Americans disapprove of Biden’s performance, including 44 percent who strongly disapprove. His disapproval ratings have jumped 20 points since he took office, reaching a record high this month. The number who strongly disapprove jumped 6 points since a Marist poll conducted just one week earlier.
Perhaps the most alarming drop for the White House and Democrats heading into the midterm election year is Biden’s support among independents. Two-thirds of independent voters disapprove of Biden, including half who strongly disapprove. Both numbers are up at least 30 points since he took office. Just 29 percent of independents approve of his job performance.
“The independents were the major difference” in this poll, Miringoff said. “The one good thing [for Biden] about losing independents and not doing as well with Democrats is those are groups you can win back.”
538 – How Unpopular is Joe Biden?
The above compilation is from FiveThirtyEight.
Polls Are No Surprise
The polls are no surprise in this corner and should not be in any corner.
Eight Reasons
- Inflation is soaring
- Supply chains still disrupted
- Vice President Kamala Harris suffers from staff resignations and infighting
- Biden’s vaccine mandates are constitutionally questionable
- Build Back Better is a massive failure of political overreach
- Progressives have hijacked Biden’s agenda and Elizabeth Warren appears to be making key policy decisions
- Immigration mess
- Another outbreak of Covid is underway
- Critical Race Theory
- Woke policies in general
What About 2022 Midterms?
Independents swung the election for Biden in 2020 but signal disaster for the Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections.
Polls can change of course, but even if inflation abates, that’s not the same as prices going down.
And if for any reason the stock market sinks (overvaluation correction or rate hikes by the Fed), that will add to voter misery.
Finally, Republicans have a cohesive anti-woke, anti-CRT, anti-Cancel Culture strategy. Independents have had enough and even some Democrats have finally had enough.
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Mish
The only republicans i would vote for are those that stood up and called bs on the voter fraud. The rest are seditionist / lack the balls or are to worried about jobs to stand up for the constitution.
Well trump put to republican senators on investigating hunter and such. I figure if they had dirt we would have heard about it by now. With that being said they are all guilty of enriching themselves. Either by connections or policy decisions.
I am a Republican and very religious.
For every time Biden is seen groping and hugging women Trump has made an off color remark about women, sometimes very disturbing comments.Both Biden and Trump are signs of the leadership vaccuum that both parties are begging to be filled by a qualified candidate. If either Trump or HIllary again attempt to run that is a sign of bad things to come.