It is hardly newsworthy now, but it seems yet another poll (Emerson) is out showing Biden’s approval numbers in the forty-two percent range, disapproval around fifty percent – I can’t even fathom the eight percent who can’t make up their minds.
I guess the real question is this: “How low can he go?”
Not to get too cocky, but Biden’s fall parallels the Republican’s rise. They are now seen favorably about the same margin – fifty percent approve of the GOP vs. forty-one disapprove. Again, with the eight or nine percent, I mean given the circumstances, what the hell?
I’ve been looking through Biden’s poll numbers the past couple of days and I’m not entirely sure that just policy disappointments are to blame for the numbers, especially since something like seventy-plus percent of Democrats approve of Biden’s “performance”. I can explain the eight or nine percent who don’t know whether they like him or not but I’m not entirely how in the hell you get seventy-two or so percent approving of this mess, unless of course they just like failure and damaging the nation (well, there is that) and maybe they are thinking of “performance” in the sense of actors on a stage…
Anyway, I think there is something else happening here, something that is causing the historic collapse of his numbers and the fact it is happening in record time.
Policy failures take a while to develop and other than his executive orders reversing the positive things Trump did, truthfully, not much of Biden’s agenda has had time to explode on the people. Of course, profligate spending can drive the issues, but they haven’t even had time to spend all the money that was appropriated under President Trump. It appears to me that most of the issues we are facing are being driven by the ANTICIPATION of what is to happen, this negative anticipation causing businesses and people to assume a defensive posture.
I don’t have real data to back up any real analysis, the raw data from the polls isn’t structured or captured in such a way I can really slice and dice it with any accuracy – but the “shape” of the data, the general feel of it, sure seems to support something outside the numbers is influencing people to sour on the Biden regime, and to do so very quickly.
So, what could it be?
A friend asked me if I thought it was Kamala, and I can’t believe that is it because anyone who knew anything about her (even Democrats during the primaries), knew how she got where she was and never expected anything from her. I’m pretty sure any but the woke-ist Dems were as surprised as we were she was selected for the VP slot.
I think it could be that Biden’s numbers are cratering so fast because a large number of so-called independents, those who voted for Biden in a doomed effort to reclaim some “normalcy” are beginning to come around to the reality that what they voted for isn’t normal. They are beginning to realize that maybe they really were swindled and maybe, just maybe, Trump wasn’t really as bad as advertised by the left and the non-Never Trump Republicans might just have been right about the election being stolen, or at the very least, manipulated to Biden’s benefit (especially since the down-ballot races seemed to buck the trend and favor the GOP candidates).
It also seems the level of dissatisfaction might even be higher, if there weren’t so many people who simply don’t want to admit they were swindled. There is no way someone could look at pre-Covid compared to post-Covid America and say, with any degree of honesty, America is better off now than it was then. Even the moderate Democrats, assuming there are any left, must be looking at the actions of some of their party’s leadership and senior level elected officials and saying, “Wow. What a bunch of bullying schmucks. These are really bad people.”
I think there are many who are also realizing the pandemic was over a year ago and their people are so drunk on power, they lied and hurt people and our economy just to hang on to it for a little while longer.
At least I hope that’s what they are thinking.
As John McClain said, “Welcome to the party, pal!”
Well, one policy failure that has certainly kicked in is inflation- brought on by his sudden re-regulations and the cancellation of energy projects here in the US. However, your greater point is well taken, and I think people are souring on him because he appears to be a shell of a man who is hardly cognitive of what's going on. People typically believe what their eyes are telling them.
Sometimes the poll numbers make me wonder if it was only those who approve who voted for him (and can't admit how wrong they were), and it should be obvious he lost the election.
I think a lot of his policies are showing: how we left Afghanistan. What over-spending (and printing) can do to inflation. The number of people coming over the border. The obvious, when it comes to Covid. I've seen some who admit to voting for him regretting it. Just not the hardcores.