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S&P Global Ratings announced yesterday that it was changing its outlook on San Francisco's debt from stable to negative.The outlook on the city-county’s outstanding general obligation and appropriation debt was cut to negative from stable this week by the ratings company. The weakness in the city’s commercial real estate market and tourism activity were factors that drove the move, S&P said. Adding to the city’s burdens, San Francisco’s budget expenditures outpaced revenue growth in fiscal 2023.To be clear, the ratings agency hasn't downgraded the city's credit rating, which is still at "AAA," the highest possible. A downgrade in the credit...

President Joe Biden’s average approval rating is well below the historic threshold for the incumbent to win reelection. RealClearPolitic’s average of Biden’s approval rating stands at 40.3 percent, while 56.3 percent disapprove of the president. His approval rating is lower than the three previous presidents’ ratings in March during the fourth year of their first terms: Trump 44.3, Obama 47.5, Bush 50.1:

New Yorkers are getting fed-up with Gov. Kathy Hochul, whose job approval plunged a net of eight points from last month — with voters citing the Empire State’s sky-high cost of living and the migrant crisis as their top concerns, a new poll shows. Those quality-of-life issues appear to be what dragged down the Democrat, according to the Siena College poll out Tuesday that saw Hochul’s favorability rating sink to 41-46%, down from 45-42% in January, and her job approval rating drop to 48-47%, down from 52-43%. Some 29% of registered New York voters polled by the upstate college said...

Per the latest polling from far-left ABC News and the Incredible Shrinking Washington Post, His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s job approval rating has crashed to 33 percent. In comparison, his disapproval rating has climbed to 58 percent. In this poll of adults, ABC/WaPo adds that Biden’s 33 percent job approval is “worse than Trump’s low as president (36 percent) and the lowest since George W. Bush from 2006-2008.” The internals for Biden are just as awful. Only 28 percent of Independents approve of the job he’s doing. Only 31 percent of women approve, even after he won (allegedly) 57 percent of...

resident Joe Biden's job approval rating has dropped to a low for any president in the past 15 years, according to a poll published Monday. The ABC News/Ipsos poll found Biden had an approval rating of just 33 percent, while 58 percent of respondents said they did not approve of his performance. That is four points below his standing in September, the last time the poll was conducted. It makes him less popular that Donald Trump, his likely presidential election opponent, who hit 36 percent approval at the lowest ebb of his time in office. And it is the lowest...

President Biden’s approval rating on handling immigration reached an all-time low, a new poll found. Just 32 percent of Americans said in the new CBS News poll released Sunday that they approved of Biden’s handling of the border — a number that CBS notes is the all-time low for the president on this question. Overall, 68 percent in the new poll disapprove of how Biden is handling the border.

President Joe Biden, 81, holds the worst net approval rating in history at this time in office, 1,080 days into his tenure, FiveThirtyEight polling found this week, highlighting just how unpopular Biden is going into a presidential election just ten months away. The following is the net approval rating of previous presidents in the modern era at the same time of their presidencies: Biden: -17.2 points Trump: -11.8 points Obama: -0.6 points Carter: +9.6 points Clinton: +11.2 points H.W. Bush: +12.5 points Nixon: +14.6 points Reagan: +15.3 points Truman: +16.7 points G.W. Bush: +20.3 points Eisenhower: +62.6 points

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81, earned the lowest overall rating of any lawmaker in Congress, dropping six points in one year to a mere 6% approval, a Monmouth University poll recently found. Under McConnell’s Senate leadership, the national debt has soared more than $30 trillion ($101,196 per American), illegal immigration has continued, real wages for American workers have remained stagnant, Obamacare was enacted in 2010, big banks were bailed out in 2008, and social media companies have silenced individuals without repercussions. Dr. Anthony Fauci remains unaccountable for allegedly twice lying to Congress.

President Biden’s job approval rating has plunged to a measly 33%, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday The dismal rating is the lowest that Pew Research has measured since Biden, 81, took office and represents a 2 point drop since the organization’s last approval survey in June. The president’s approval rating among registered Republicans and those that lean Republican stayed level at 7%, while his support among Democrats tumbled 4 points from June, to 61%. The pollster notes that Biden’s job rating among Democrats has fallen 12 points since October 2022 and is “relatively low among most...

President Joe Biden’s approval rating sunk to its lowest level of his presidency in November, according to a Wednesday CNN poll, fueling the fears of Democrats who worry about Biden’s 2024 electability. Biden’s approval rating in November was 37 percent, down two points since October and the lowest since he assumed office in 2021, the poll found: November 2023: 37 percent October 2023: 39 percent August 2023: 39 percent July 2023: 41 percent December 2022: 46 percent June 2022: 38 percent October 2021: 50 percent March 2021: 51 percent Joe Biden’s struggling economy, the top issue among voters, is among...

President Biden’s disapproval rating hit the highest mark of his presidency in a new poll that also showed support by essential voting blocs is slipping. Biden’s disapproval rating ticked up to 56 percent, with 41 percent saying they approve. The survey also shows support for Biden slipping with voters aged 18-24, who reported a 46 percent approval rating; Latinos, who reported 43 percent; and independents — who will be key to deciding the general election — at 36 percent.

President Joe Biden has an approval rating of 40 percent while 60 percent of Americans are unhappy with his performance as president, including almost 70 percent of independents, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll published Sunday. Biden’s approval rating is on par with an Economist/YouGov poll released last week, which showed that 38 percent of Americans gave him positive marks regarding his performance versus 55 percent who disapproved. In that poll, six percent were undecided, while no such population is included in the latest YouGov survey.

The White House’s summer rollout of “Bidenomics” appears to not have registered with the public just yet, as only a little over one-third of Americans approve of President Biden’s handling of the economy, according to a new poll. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey, published this week, found that just 36 percent of Americans approve of his economic policies — slightly below his overall approval rating of 42 percent. Democrats were more likely to support Biden’s handling of the economy, with 65 percent saying that they approve. On the other hand, just 8 percent of Republicans offered...

New testimony linking President Joe Biden to a “pay to play” bribery scheme raises the question of how history will assess his tenure in office.Admittedly, it is risky to compare the performance of modern presidents against their predecessors. Because it is hard to place current events in historical context, snap judgments can prove embarrassing later.For example, during the presidency of George W. Bush (served 2001-2009), some commentators ranked him as the worst American chief executive in history. In hindsight, however, that assessment seems absurd, even to liberal academics. The 2021 C-SPAN Presidential Historians Survey ranked him 29th of 44.More recently,...

Every governor in the nation has a net positive approval rating, data from Morning Consult released Monday found. Across the board, every single governor in the country has a net positive approval rating, meaning their approval percentage is higher than those who disapprove, even if their approval is not over 50 percent. All but three — Govs. Tate Reeves (R-MS), Katie Hobbs (D-AZ), and Tina Kotek (D-OR) — saw approval ratings over 50 percent, but those three still had net positive approvals.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s public approval rating was stuck at 40 percent in early July, close to the lowest levels of his presidency, defying White House efforts to further engage voter support. A Reuters/Ipsos poll delivered the bad news for the president as he looks to another run for office in 2024, telling Turkish President Recep Erdogan overnight he would win re-election next year and would be working with him for the next five years, as Breitbart News reported. The three-day online poll, which asked Americans, “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job...

President Biden’s approval rating has climbed to its highest point in nearly a year, according to new Gallup polling, as he ramps up his campaign for another four years in the White House. Biden’s job rating among U.S. adults climbed 4 percentage points between May and June, the survey found, to 43 percent who say they approve of the way the president is handling his role. It’s the highest rating since last August, but still below the approval in the upper 50s recorded at the start of his time in the White House. Fifty-four percent of U.S. adults overall disapprove...

President Joe Biden will celebrate Memorial Day weekend with the second-lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to Gallup polling from Friday. Amid pressure to raise the debt ceiling during budget negotiations, just 39 percent of Americans approve of Biden, only two percentage points higher than his personal low recorded last month and in March of last year, when just 37 percent approved.

President Biden’s approval rating has sunk to an all-time low as he embarks on his 2024 re-election effort, a new poll shows. The survey, released by Gallup on Thursday, found that just 37% of US adults approved of the 80-year-old president’s job performance, the lowest the polling outfit has measured since the start of his presidency. Gallup found that 59% of adults said they disapproved of the job Biden has done as commander in chief. The poll was conducted between April 3-25. It was completed on the day Biden announced he would seek a second term in office. Biden’s approval...

President Biden’s approval rating has hit its highest point in almost a year, according to a new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, rising to 46 percent. Biden’s approval rating following his second State of the Union address is the highest it has been since March 2022, the poll released Wednesday found. He saw improvement among respondents across the political spectrum, with his approval among Democrats rising from 85 percent in January to 88 percent and his approval among independents rising from 32 percent to 36 percent. His approval rating among Republicans also ticked up from 13 percent last month to 15 percent...