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Little known fact: no one is responsible for anything in a democracy (no one knows where the buck stops), and therefore it breeds corruption. The way the American system is set up, even a good leader can’t ever get more than a 50% approval rating. That’s been the case since George W. Bush got 90% after starting wars as revenge for 9/11.

Flordia Governor Ron DeSantis has seen his net approval rating tank since he announced his bid for the presidency.A dynamic approval rating graph maintained by online pollster Civiqs puts DeSantis’s net approval at negative 19 points, with roughly 55 percent of respondents disapproving of him and 36 percent approving of him.As recently as December his approval and disapproval ratings were tied at 47 percent apiece.The findings appear to be further proof that DeSantis enjoyed no boost in support from his botched campaign launch, hosted by Elon Musk on Twitter Spaces.Reporting the Civiqs findings, Newsweek noted that Morning Consult polling shows...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has seen his approval rating fall dramatically two weeks after announcing his 2024 presidential bid.According to online polling company Civiqs' dynamic approval rating graph, DeSantis currently has a net approval rating of negative 19 points, with an average of 55 percent of respondents disapproving of him, compared with 36 percent who have a favorable view of the Republican.The data shows DeSantis has a major unfavorable rating from those aged 18-34 (63 percent), women (62 percent), as well as African Americans (85 percent), and the Hispanic/Latino population (68 percent).

In games such as golf, you win by scoring lower than any of your opponents. But in the realm of presidential job approval, such an approach is a recipe for political upheaval, as President Biden has found over the past few months. Polls continue to show his approval rating in poor shape, and even Democrats are asking questions about his political future amid broad dissatisfaction with the current state of the country. In fact, Biden is dancing with a bleak bit of history: His approval rating of 39 percent1 is now the worst of any elected president at this point...

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?Approve: 30% Disapprove: 58%

Approval of President Biden's performance in the White House continues to weaken as the administration works to deal with the Ukraine border conflict, rising inflation, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and chaos at the Mexican border. For the first time since taking office, Biden's approval rating — based on an accumulation of polling data — fell below 40%. A Real Clear Politics average of all the most recent national surveys measuring Biden’s standing put the president’s approval at 39% and his disapproval at 54%. Biden has also found himself at the center of a Russia-Ukraine border conflict in Europe. Last month,...

President Joe Biden's approval rating has dipped heading into the second month of 2022, after making some modest gains in the new year. The president enjoyed a bump in popularity in January, with his approval rating rising to 43.5 percent, but the figure now stands at around 41.8 percent, according to poll tracker FiveThirtyEight. The Biden administration has just entered its second year and in November the Democrats will face crucial midterm elections that will put the spotlight firmly on the president's agenda.

President Joe Biden has experienced a tremendous drop in support among the younger demographic — those under the age of 30 — since taking office, a YouGov/Economist survey found. According to the Economist’s analysis of the data, “Mr Biden’s failure to impress the young now threatens his presidency,” as he has lost significant support since January. Currently, just 29 percent of adults under the age of 30 approve of Biden’s job performance, while half disapprove. “The net rating of -21 points is the worst for any age group,” the Economist found. However, his net approval is underwater with other age...

Rare is it that I agree with Democrats, but on their assessment of the current Vice President, I am in full agreement. I use the word “current” because the way things are going with Kamala Harris, you can’t be sure she’ll be around in 2024, let alone next week. Because, it turns out, everyone hates Kamala. I’m right there with them, she’s simply awful. But my reasons are significantly different from why so many Democrats seem to have the long knives out for her. Either way, I’ll take it and enjoy watching it happen. It can’t come as a surprise...

There's been a lot of attention paid to resident Joe Biden's falling job approval rating. And it is indeed going down, down, down. But along with confidence in the president, the public is also losing faith in the Democratic Party's ability to handle the issues that most concern voters today. It's been a long fall for both Biden and his party since they narrowly won control in Washington one year ago this week. A new NBC News poll has Biden's job approval rating at 42% among all adults, with a disapproval rating of 54%. That's 12 points underwater, and it...

Strongly approve: 19% Somewhat approve: 20% Somewhat disapprove: 11% Strongly disapprove: 39% Not sure: 12%September 4-7, 2021 - 1,500 U.S. adult citizens

A national poll released Wednesday shows President Joe Biden’s approval rating plummeted below the 50 percent mark. The Economist/YouGov poll showed that adult voters across the country gave Biden an approval rating of 49 percent.

President Trump’s approval rating is up to 59% following Nancy Pelosi’s second failed impeachment attempt on the 45th President. Trump’s approval rating back on January 6th was 41% according to Morning Consult polling. And now, despite the poll being oversampled with Democrats, Trump stands at 59% approval rating.

Considering these five facts about the election, it's no wonder Biden failed to achieve a landslide victory — and one might say it's curious that he'd achieve victory at all. If I told you an incumbent president had 52 percent approval on Election Day and ended up winning 10 million more votes than during his first election, would you predict victory? What if 56 percent of voters felt they were better off since the president had entered office? What if you knew that the incumbent had a nearly 30 percent enthusiasm edge over his opponent, or that when asked for...

dwellers shocked by the Black Lives Matter protest violence raging in some cities, President Trump’s approval rating has hit a new high, according to a survey heavy with minority voters. The latest Zogby Analytics poll just shared with Secrets had Trump’s approval at 52%. “The president has recorded his best job approval rating on record,” said pollster Jonathan Zogby. What’s more, his approval rating among minorities was solid and, in the case of African Americans, shockingly high. Zogby said 36% of blacks approve of the president, as do 37% of Hispanics and 35% of Asians. Approval among independent voters is...

As polling on impeachment again dominates the news cycle, it’s worth revisiting the issue from the perspective of those who support President Trump. As I’ve noted here before, it’s important not to get too wrapped up in these polls. However, it would also be unwise to take the position that there’s no validity to any of them or the patterns they represent. Statistical sampling, done properly, IS a thing, and political types should indeed take polling seriously. However, such polls merely represent public opinion during a very specific window. Right now, a complicit, Trump-hating media is pushing impeachment like candy-flavored...

President Trump’s approval ticked up to 49 percent — its highest mark this year, according to a new Hill-HarrisX survey released on Wednesday.

President Trump’s job approval rating is the highest it’s been in two years, boosted by voter optimism about the economy, according to the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey. The survey found that 48 percent approve of the job Trump is doing, compared to 52 percent who said they disapprove. That’s up from 45 percent approval in March. The last time the president’s job approval rating reached 48 percent in the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey was in June of 2017.

Polling firm Zogby just released a new survey gauging POTUS Donald Trump’s popularity and overall job approval rating and, let’s just say, it isn’t going to make former President Obama or Democrats smile. The survey found that the president’s job approval has climbed to 51 percent, the highest of his tenure thus far and higher than Obama’s (48 percent) was at the same time in his failed, scandal-ridden presidency. What’s really noteworthy about the latest Zogby findings, however, is where the president is drawing a lot of his support.

I know that everyone is going to see the headline of the latest Zogby Analytics poll of President Trump’s approval ratings and think “outlier.” And perhaps that will prove to be the case, but their numbers still definitely have a lot of good news for the Trump administration and their background hints that this could be real. First, let’s get to the toplines. They’ve got the President above water at 51/48, largely based on confidence in the economy among likely voters. A new Zogby Poll® of 852 likely voters nationwide in the U.S., conducted from 5/2/19-5/9/19, with a margin of...