Posted on 06/27/2024 8:37:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Earlier today I wrote about the state of national polling as we head into tonight's debate (which still hasn't started as I write this). But in that review I missed this Gallup poll which seems to jibe well with that earlier post. Basically what Gallup sees is that Biden has a lot less enthusiasm on his side. In fact, a majority of Democrats are still day-dreaming about another candidate.
The poll finds that about twice as many Republicans are pleased with Trump being the GOP nominee as Democrats are with Biden leading their party’s ticket...
Republicans (79%) are nearly twice as likely as Democrats (42%) to say they are pleased with their party’s nominee. A majority of Democrats (56%) would prefer another candidate.
Neither candidate has positive favorability, but Trump's has improved a bit while Biden's has not.
Trump’s favorable rating (46%) has increased by four percentage points since the prior reading in December and is the highest for him since April 2020. At the same time, Biden’s favorable rating has dipped by the same four-point margin to 37%, his lowest since 2007, when he was unknown to many Americans.
Again, this jibes well with the findings of the NY Times and Q-Poll I wrote about earlier, both of which showed a 4 point surge for Trump.
As for why this is happening, Gallup notes that Trump currently has the edge on "personality and leadership qualities." It's not clear exactly what qualities those are but later on Gallup comes directly to the point: Biden's age is a big problem.
At 81, Biden is three years older than Trump, who turned 78 this month. Despite their similar ages, Americans are nearly twice as likely to say Biden is too old to be president (67%) as say this about Trump (37%). These results are in line with prior Gallup polling showing that 31% of Americans are willing to vote for a presidential candidate over age 80 and 63% are willing to vote for a candidate over age 70...
Biden’s age is not just a potential liability among Republicans and independents -- majorities of whom say he is too old and are very concerned about it -- but also among a sizable minority of Democrats. Forty-four percent of Democrats say Biden is too old, and 31% are very worried about it.
And there you have it. A near majority of Democrats think Biden is too old and a majority would prefer another candidate.
Obviously if those numbers don't change, Joe Biden is toast. But I'm not sure Biden can change them at this point. Most Americans have seen enough.
Time for Real President Trump to debate RFK Jr asap and declare RFK Jr as the real Democratic candidate. Splitting the Democratic party into two pieces
They’re in luck. Little Dick Van Dyke came out and said he’s primed and ready to rock today! Go get ‘em Little Dick! Everything is Rosie!
Are they upset with his policies or with the optics? I am betting it’s the latter.
Please quit spamming every debate article with this post. We Understand what you think should happen by now...
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They just had the primary elections and Biden won.
Why’d they vote him in as nominee if they don’t want him?
Why’d no one even run against him?
Now they want party elites to decide who the nominee will be.
They just want to be ruled over.
That’s a very good if not very obvious point that I didn’t even think of. They just did finish their primary didn’t they? And Joe Biden is their man ,how funny.
Even if they swap out Biden, it’s an uphill battle. They are and look like they are in complete disarray. The problem isn’t just that Biden looked bad, Trump looked at his best.
“Time for Real President Trump to debate RFK Jr asap and declare RFK Jr as the real Democratic candidate. Splitting the Democratic party into two pieces”
I read this on another thread and agree with it.
Demofascist Manager in Chief Obama will walk out to the mound and give Old Joe a good pep talk and leave him in the game because coach knows whats in the bullpen is a freak show.
And if Democraps go the way of the DoDo bird, what will they do...get some guy who can handle AI and go with that.
Dems are a bunch of Phonies anyway.
One of the best things to happen to Trump is when they pulled him off Twitter. Even though he was reinstated to X, he has only reposted something once or twice. It has been a boon to his favorability and focus.
I could see Biden dropping out and RFK, Jr. being Harris’ running mate.
Make no mistake... I think Harris is worse than Biden, but the democrats are stuck with needing a black person on the ticket.
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