Posted on 02/23/2022 3:38:37 AM PST by Kaslin
A new report from Pew Research shows that the sharpest drop in approval for resident Joe Biden is among the Democratic Party's most loyal and consistent supporters -- Black protestants.
In March 2021, shortly after he took office, Biden's support among Black protestants stood at 92%. By January 2022, this was down to 65%, a drop of 27 points.
Over the same period, overall national approval for the president, per Gallup, was down from 54% to 40% -- 14 points. About half the drop among Black protestants.
Other polls among all Black voters tell the same story.
An NBC poll shows Black approval for Biden dropping from 83% last April to 64% now. A Quinnipiac University poll shows Black approval during Biden's first year in office dropping from 78% to 57%.
What's going on? Should Democratic strategists be worried that a sea-change is occurring among voters on whom they could always most depend?
Trying to define some new grand reality is always a dangerous game in political analysis.
But what we can do is note two major areas of great concern to Black Americans where they have reason to be dissatisfied with the leadership they see in Washington.
One is inflation.
The president and his Federal Reserve chairman bear responsibility for the new round of inflation now rearing its head and disrupting American lives.
The Wall Street Journal recently noted in an editorial that the now 7.5% annualized increase in the price level is the worst in 40 years. During January "some 73% of the items saw annual price rises of 3% or higher" and "some 55% of items saw inflation of 5% or higher."
A Gallup poll in December showed that 71% of households earning $40,000 per year or less reported hardship as result of price increases; 28% reported "severe hardship"; and 42% reported "moderate hardship".
These are households that are disproportionately Black households. According to Statistica, whereas 37% of all American households earn $50,000 or less, 55% of Black households are in this income category.
The Wall Street Journal calls this new round of inflation the result of a "historic policy failure" at the White House and the Federal Reserve.
But also, prominent Democratic Party economists and businessmen are calling out this administration.
Wall Street businessman Steven Rattner, who was counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration, wrote a piece recently in The New York Times titled "Biden Keeps Blaming the Supply Chain for Inflation. That's Dishonest."
Rattner calls on the president to set a priority for reducing spending and the deficit, the complete opposite direction in which they have taken things, despite many warnings.
The terrible irony is that a major rationale for all the spending was to allegedly help the very low-income Americans who are now being hurt.
The other issue is COVID-19.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, after adjusting for age differences, the incidence of hospitalization due to COVID-19 has been almost three times higher among Black than white Americans. And the incidence of death almost twice as high.
A new Gallup survey shows 69% of Black Americans reporting being "very stressed" or "somewhat stressed" because of threat of COVID-19 infection, compared with 57% of white Americans.
Morning Consult reported that in the three weeks following Biden's announcement of federal rules mandating vaccines, Black approval for Biden's handling of the crisis dropped nine points from 70% to 61%. Among unvaccinated Blacks, Biden's net approval -- approve less disapprove -- dropped 17 points.
One might say that the Biden administration has been operating in a fashion detached from the very real and challenging realities -- day-to-day life and the cost of living, and health concerns during a terrible pandemic -- with which Black Americans have been struggling,
Good reason to believe this is what is causing Biden's approval ratings with Blacks to plummet.
Then they will march in, as told, and vote for him in droves if he runs again.
Latest Civiqs.com survey - the most accurate survey shows Black support of Brandon at 64%
https://civiqs.com/results/approve_president_biden?annotations=true&uncertainty=true&zoomIn=true
Black women will stay around. Their unfocused anger will keep them there.
If that was the case, Deep State wouldn’t have had to steal the last election.
Everyone “knows” how the inner cities vote. A change in how those residents may feel about Biden and other Democrats doesn’t matter. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark and the rest of them can continue to “vote” 95% for Democrats for decades to come and the media will just shrug and say “Well, of course. They always do that.”
That kind of election fraud is easy. The only thing that would raise eyebrows is if Philadelphia voted Republican. Then the media would say, “That’s just not believable. Let’s toss those votes out.”
Well...well....It’s about time that many African Americans got some meaningful brains and realized How badly Obama & Biden screwed then royally. In the eight years of the Obama/Biden POTUS/VP reign...neither Obama or Biden raised a Pinky finger to help and assist African Americans...period!!!
The only true supporter for African-Americans was POTUS, Donald J. Trump!!! SAD that so many of our American Blacks stood by and let the Ego Driven, Love Thyself, Obama & Biden dump all over them....SAD!!!
American Blacks...Wake Up, Wise UP......Trump is the one for you all!!!
Not enough black women to ensure victory.
Yawn. I have been reading stories about how President Xxxxx and the Democrats are losing X% of black votes for over 20 years. Then, the next election, 92-65% of the black vote goes to the (Gasp) Democrats.
Nope, Lyndon Johnson was correct when he said;
“We will have the n*****r vote for the next 200 years.”
There must have been or Deep State wouldn’t have felt the need to disenfranchise so many of their votes.
Opps, that should read 92-95%
still on that first cup
Agreed. These articles always are dillusional.
He said 100 years, not 200
Another Lucy and the football story of black folks seeing the light and abandoning the Dem party as per polling. And come election day, 92% will vote for the Dem candidate. Seems to me if the Republican Party wants to go the identity politics route and has limited campaign funds, they should be spending them on attracting the hispanic vote where there is the potential for making great inroads with this growing socially conservative populace rather than wasting it on trying to move that 92% black vote down to 91%
We hear this about blacks over and over. I’ll believe it when I see it.
If Trump didn’t do it no one will and no set of circumstances will
it’s modern day slavery and they are still on the plantation except this time the slaveholders are northerners
liberals are a tiny minority. Without the nearly monolithic black vote no democrat can be elected nearly anywhere.
I really wished you would learn the difference.
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