A lot of Americans dislike everything Biden has done
Count me in that group.
A CNN poll for Jan/Feb of 2022 has revealed that only 17% strongly approve of Biden and 27% moderately approve, whereas 41% strongly disapprove and 17% moderately disapprove.
What’s more, 56% of respondents could find nothing whatsoever that Biden has ever done that has earned their approval. And among those who could manage to find a thing or two that he’s done to their liking, the percentages were incredibly small for each one, mostly in single digits and low single digits at that.
If you look at the changes over time for each element asked about, you can see how Biden’s approval has dropped. Even for COVID handling, which was probably his strongest point of approval – although I can’t imagine why – he is now significantly underwater.
If you study the answers to questions 8a and 8b (page 11), which asked people what the government’s top priority and next top priority should be, you’ll see that the top issues respondents want addressed are all ones that conservatives are pushing: reducing inflation, protecting voting rights in the U.S. (that could go either way, I guess, because each party defines it very differently), ensuring that U.S. borders are secure, and reducing the rate of violent crime. COVID is way way down on the lists, and climate change issues aren’t very high, either.
I’m never quite sure what Biden’s high disapproval numbers truly signify, though, because it seems to me that a number of people disapprove because he hasn’t been able to accomplish their leftist dream goals in the first year of his administration. But seeing the list of topics on which he has so little approval makes me think it’s more than that.
Of course, we have to add the usual caveat on polls and their validity or lack thereof. But I can’t imagine why CNN would want Biden’s numbers to be so low, unless their goal is to warn the administration that it’s time to retire good old Joe before more people turn away from the Democratic Party in general. Of course, Biden’s not really the main source of the problem and getting rid of him won’t change that. But they would like someone in there who’s a better pretender at competence and even-handedness.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2022/02/11/a-lot-of-americans-dislike-everything-biden-has-done/
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