Posted on 02/05/2022 12:32:18 AM PST by 11th_VA
Most of us see President Joe Biden’s falling job approval rating as a measure of his declining popularity. But for every candidate, Democrat or Republican, running for the House or Senate this year, Biden’s numbers mean political life or death. That is because the president’s job approval rating is an extraordinarily important factor in the upcoming midterm elections.
Biden’s is low and going lower. A recent Pew poll puts Biden at 41% approval, versus 56% disapproval. Those results are very close to the RealClearPolitics average of several polls, which has Biden at 41.4% approval and 54.7% disapproval.
If those results continue, they will be felt in November. “In our increasingly polarized and nationalized politics, the single most determinative factor in midterm outcomes is the president’s job approval,” writes RealClearPolitics’ Sean Trende. “With both the House and Senate very narrowly split between the two parties, entering the 2022 elections with a president whose job approval is at this level carries catastrophic implications for the Democrats.”
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“Looking back more than 70 years, there hasn’t been a single president who substantially improved his job approval rating from late January/early February of a midterm election year to late October/early November,” writes elections analyst Nathan Gonzales. In fact, the opposite has usually happened. “In the last 18 midterm elections going back to Harry Truman in 1950, the average president’s job approval rating dropped eight points between this time of year and election day,” Gonzales notes.
Bottom line: Nothing is set in stone. But things are looking bad for Joe Biden and his party.
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As for the RINOs, maybe some of them will be gone as well.
Since the Republicans didn't protect the vote in 2020, they will not be getting a dime from me until they protect it now! Right NOW!
He’s draggin me down and I’m not a Rat.
Meh, Byron York.
In other news, he shits his pants and doesn’t know who or where he is.
Anybody who could approve of this Presidency by now is as brain dead as Biden is. I have zero sympathy for anybody who is going along with this travesty.
It’s difficult for anyone to bring down the Democrats when they’re already existing in the depths of Satan’s hell. But Biden is doing a pretty good job of it.
He’s dragging the entire country down. Possibly the world.
If 41% actually approve of Biteme then that is the real problem.
The Communists have been VERY BUSY in our public schools for decades!
Should send troops to southern border not Ukraine.
Is that possible ???
I would think theyre way down already ...
Yes written by a Democrat, Byron York.
How many Dems up for relection this Nov are freaking out on how Grampa Joe is dragging them down.
The ones in safe seats don’t give a damn vs the others looking at a historic wipe out.
The infighting within the Democrat apparatus works for us.
We just need to identify and primary RINOs at every turn.
“Biden drags Democrats down”
Hurray for Joe!
Well the rats must be below zero now…
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