Posted on 11/16/2021 2:54:13 PM PST by Ennis85
There’s no sugarcoating it: The new Post-ABC News poll is a brutal read for Democrats. President Biden’s approval rating is at a new low of 41 percent. Fifty-one percent of registered voters say they’ll vote Republican in the 2022 midterms — the best showing for the GOP in the poll’s 40-year history. The good news is that the poll also provides a screamingly obvious remedy.
Perhaps most worryingly for the president, the drop in Biden’s approval rating didn’t come among Republicans or independents, but Democrats — from 86 to 80 percent. The remaining Democratic support is less enthusiastic as well: The share of Democrats who approve strongly of Biden’s performance has declined from 54 to 44 percent. Not that things have plateaued among independents, either: While their overall approval of the president remains the same, their view of his handling of the pandemic and the economy have dropped, from 38 percent approval to 34 percent and 49 percent approval to 44 percent, respectively.
So what’s the problem? It’s not “stupid wokeness,” as some Democratic strategists like James Carville have argued. For example, The Post-ABC poll finds that 70 percent of Americans — including nearly half of Republicans — think schools should teach “how the history of racism affects America today.” That hardly suggests buzzwords like “critical race theory” have much influence outside the right-wing media bubble. And more broadly, if Biden’s poll numbers are dropping because of disappointed Democrats and recently disenchanted independents, caving to talking points that Republicans have flogged for months won’t fix anything.
Instead, The Post-ABC poll suggests two fundamental issues. The first — pandemic-fueled inflation darkening Americans’ perceptions of the economy — would be a struggle for any president. But the latter is entirely of a few Democrats’ making: Just 35 percent of
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“...Fairly or unfairly the party in power will be blamed for the mess we are in.”
In this case, fairly.
You're right about Brandon being brain addled. Bear in mind Brandon does what his handlers tell him to do, mostly.
Personally, I think Brandon's time in office is just about up. The rats have a real succession problem though (rubs hands together).
It’s kind of amazing to me that the Dems were somehow able to pick a VP who comes up less popular than Biden himself.
Translation: We’re trying to save Biden but he’s so pathetic it’s really difficult to come up with sellable excuses.
It's all good. They did the very same thing with Trump.
Paywall dropped. What is the “screamingly obvious remedy? “
he had no choice, either move or veto everything for the rest of his administration.
“The polls are clear: Democratic holdouts are killing Biden”
what’s also clear is that democrat holdouts are desperately trying to save their own worthless hides by bailing out of the sinking SS Biden Titanic ...
1) No one, including Trump, can “fix” the economy quickly again, and certainly not the House & Senate.
2) Biteme will habitually veto any legislation from an R house, and without a 2/3 in the senate, no override.
No, they aren’t going to “get it” and they are on a flight descent right into a 2024 mountain possibly with us having 2/3 in each house AND a heavy, heavy majority of Trumpers.
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