What's Behind Biden's Record-Low Approval Rating?

FiveThirtyEight ^ | July 15, 2022 | Geoffrey Skelley

[Trump20162020]

In games such as golf, you win by scoring lower than any of your opponents. But in the realm of presidential job approval, such an approach is a recipe for political upheaval, as President Biden has found over the past few months. Polls continue to show his approval rating in poor shape, and even Democrats are asking questions about his political future amid broad dissatisfaction with the current state of the country.

In fact, Biden is dancing with a bleak bit of history: His approval rating of 39 percent1 is now the worst of any elected president at this point in his presidency since the end of World War II, according to FiveThirtyEight’s historical presidential approval data. In other words, Biden is arguably in worse shape than any other elected president heading into his first midterm election, including his four most recent predecessors, who, like Biden, were operating in an increasingly polarized political climate.

[Let's Roll]

The phone and pen he inherited from obummer?

[oldtech]

Where did they come up with this 39% approval rating ??... as that’s higher than any I’ve heard lately. What I’d heard was more like 30% & that’s probably giving him the benefit of a doubt. I can’t quite understand how he can even have an approval rating? It would be nice if they were more open about who is approving of him. After all, someone is being free & easy (and illegally) giving out addresses of Supreme Court Justices.

[Trump20162020]

Where did they come up with this 39% approval rating ??... as that’s higher than any I’ve heard lately. What I’d heard was more like 30%

It's the FiveThirtyEight polling average. It's not far off the current RCP polling average of Joe Biden's job approval, which they have at 38.6% right now. 30% is just his worst polls, there are others that have him at 42%.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html