Forbes: Biden’s approval eroding nationally
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Shortly after inauguration, Biden — basking in Trump-haters’ euphoria — was cruising with a 19 percentage point job approval rating — 55% favorable, 36% unfavorable.
That gap has narrowed to 8 points … still formidable but, as Forbes observes: “Recent polling shows cracks forming in President Joe Biden’s job approval numbers.”
Left-leaning The Hill puts it this way: “Biden’s mediocre polling could spell trouble.”
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Let’s look at the numbers…
Here’s the most recent RCP “Poll of Polls”.
The black line is approval; the red line is disapproval.
Note that the 6-month “erosion” is largely driven by the disapproval numbers (up 8 percentage points) … approval numbers have slid slowly (down 3 p.p.).
Also note that 6 of the 8 disapproval points change happened between January and April.
Pundits assert that’s because Biden campaigned as a moderate unifier, but quickly started governing as a wide left partisan.
People at the margins quickly started to notice.
In April and May, the numbers flattened as vaccination rates were surging, but as COVID came increasingly under some semblance of control, peoples’ priorities started to shift:
“During the past few months, a growing number of adults have expressed disapproval of Biden’s leadership on the economy, gun violence, taxation and corruption.” Forbes
Other pundits add the border mayhem and urban crime to the list.
Biden scores poorly on those issues.
And, there’s the orange-man factor,
The Hill observes:
Just as Biden’s positive polling and election win were based mostly on dislike of former President Trump, his current polling advantages may be just as shallow
Said differently, it may not be enough to not-be-Trump … and now people are forgetting about Trump and increasingly alert to how Biden-Harris are doing their jobs.
Hmmm.
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