President Joe Biden’s Stateof the Union Speech was heralded as a A+ for him….
The media and Democrat’s tripped all over themselves in praise….
He gave the Repubicans a ‘beat down’….
Great….
But ?
Joe Biden STILL has a polling problem…
His approval numbers are in the mid 40%….
His DISapproval numbers are in the 50%….
We KNOW he’d beat Donald Trump if the vote was today no matter what the right leaning polls say…
But?
Acroos the country in polls ?
Joe Biden is NOT looking good……
Biden has steadied the nation. He has brought competent people into government. He has enacted important legislation. He has fortified America’s alliances against despots like Putin. He has strengthened American democracy.
All of which raises a troubling paradox. Only 42% of Americans approve of Biden’s presidency – barely above the 41% at his last State of the Union address, and a lower percentage at this point than any president in 75 years of polling except for Trump and Reagan (who at this point was hobbled by a deep recession).
And despite Biden’s significant achievements, fully 62% think he has accomplished “not very much” or “little or nothing”.
Even on his signature initiatives – from improving the country’s infrastructure to making electric vehicles more affordable to lowering prescription drug costs to creating jobs – majorities believe he has made no progress.
And although jobs are being created at an almost unprecedented rate, unemployment is at its lowest since 1969, and inflation is dropping, Americans are deeply pessimistic about the economy.
Why the wide discrepancy between what Biden is achieving and what Americans think about him?
It’s easy to blame faulty polling. Opinion polls are notoriously inaccurate, as America experienced in the last two presidential elections and during the 2022 midterms.
Yet Biden’s has consistently low ratings across almost all opinion polls. And even if the polls systematically underestimate his popularity, he is polling no better than Trump did at this point in Trump’s presidency, which itself suggests a remarkable degree of public hostility….
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The mainstream media is not a whole lot better. The New York Times, Washington Post, and major television networks are guilty of “two-sides”-ism – attempting to draw an equivalence between Republicans and Democrats at a time when a large swath of the Republican party continues to align itself with Trump and Trump’s attack on American democracy.
This has made it difficult for the news-consuming public to appreciate how much Biden has got done and to credit him for achieving legislative victories with the smallest majorities and most extreme Republicans in living memory.
That said, the media alone can’t account for Biden’s low ratings. Only a small fraction of the public is exposed to Fox News or to the New York Times or the Washington Post.
A deeper reason Biden is not doing better with the public is the deeply cynical and angry divide Trump has spawned in America. Even if George Washington were president today, a large percentage of the public would probably despise him….
Note….
Joe Biden , who IS doing a good job follows a guy who as a fuck up was ALL over the media….
He still gets a fair amount of media attention due to his antic’s….
Good ole Joe just does his job…..
‘Good guys come in last?”
Well?
We need someone to keep things going and NOT in Trump’s way….
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