Biden's approval dips to lowest of presidency: AP-NORC poll

Biden's approval dips to lowest of presidency: AP-NORC poll
AP | NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Fri, May 20, 2022, 6:02 AM

President Joe Biden’s approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, a new poll shows, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democratic Party.

Only 39% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s performance as president, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Research, dipping from already negative ratings a month earlier.

Overall, only about 2 in 10 adults say the U.S. is heading in the right direction or the economy is good, both down from about 3 in 10 a month earlier. Those drops were concentrated among Democrats, with just 33% within the president’s party saying the country is headed in the right direction, down from 49% in April.

Of particular concern for Biden ahead of the midterm elections, his approval among Democrats stands at 73%, a substantial drop since earlier in his presidency. In AP-NORC polls conducted in 2021, Biden’s approval rating among Democrats never dropped below 82%.

The findings reflect a widespread sense of exasperation in a country facing a cascade of challenges ranging from inflation, gun violence, and a sudden shortage of baby formula to a persistent pandemic.

“I don’t know how much worse it can get,” said Milan Ramsey, a 29-year-old high school counselor and Democrat in Santa Monica, California, who with her husband had to move into her parents’ house to raise their infant son.

Ramsey thinks the economic dysfunction that's led to her being unable to afford the place where she grew up isn't Biden's fault. But she's alarmed he hasn't implemented ambitious plans for fighting climate change or fixing health care.

“He hasn't delivered on any of the promises. I feel like the stimulus checks came out and that was the last win of his administration,” Ramsey said of Biden. “I think he's tired — and I don't blame him, I'd be tired too at his age with the career he's had.”

Republicans have not been warm to Biden for a while. Less than 1 in 10 approve of the president or his handling of the economy, but that's no different from last month.

Gerry Toranzo, a nurse and a Republican in Chicago, blames Biden for being forced to pinch pennies by taking steps like driving slower to conserve gas after prices have skyrocketed during his administration.

“His policies are destroying the economy,” Toranzo, 46, said of Biden, blaming him for stopping the Keystone XL fuel pipeline to Canada and hamstringing domestic energy production. “It's a vicious cycle of price increases.”

Overall, two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy. That rating is largely unchanged over the last few months, though elevated slightly since the first two months of the year.

But there are signs that the dissatisfaction with Biden on the economy has deepened. Just 18% of Americans say Biden’s policies have done more to help than hurt the economy, down slightly from 24% in March. Fifty-one percent say they’ve done more to hurt than help, while 30% say they haven’t made much difference either way.

The percentage of Democrats who say Biden’s policies have done more to help dipped from 45% to 37%, though just 18% say they’ve done more to hurt; 44% say they’ve made no difference.

Some Democrats blame other forces for inflation.

Manuel Morales, an internet service technician in Moline, Illinois, thinks the pandemic and war in Ukraine have had a far bigger impact than Biden's decisions. But the 58-year-old Democrat is now questioning the benefits of Biden's biggest legislative achievement, the American Rescue Plan, and its stimulus checks.

“It helped a lot of people, but," Morales said, "people did not want to go back to work.”

Morales faults Biden on another area of persistent vulnerability to the president — immigration.

Only 38% back Biden on immigration, and Morales is disappointed at the scenes of migrants continuing to cross the southern border. Though he himself is a Mexican immigrant, Morales thinks the U.S. needs to more stringently control its border to have a hope of legalizing deserving migrants who are in the country illegally.

Also, Morales said, there have to be limits. “It's impossible to bring the whole of Central America and Mexico into this country,” he said.

Another area where Morales faults Biden, albeit mildly, is the war with Ukraine. “We are spending a lot of money going to the Ukraine and all that is going to the deficit,” Morales said.

Overall, 45% of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of the U.S. relationship with Russia, while 54% disapprove. That’s held steady each month since the war in Ukraine began. Seventy-three percent of Democrats and 15% of Republicans approve.

The new poll shows just 21% of Americans say they have “a great deal of confidence” in Biden’s ability to handle the situation in Ukraine; 39% say they have some confidence and 39% say they have hardly any.

Charles Penn, a retired factory worker in Huntington, Indiana, is satisfied with Biden's performance on Ukraine.

“I think he's done alright,” Penn, 68, said of the president.

But overall Penn, an independent who leans Republican, is disappointed with Biden, and blames him for rising prices that have squeezed him in his retirement.

“The Democrats in the long run have screwed up things by pushing for higher wages, like going from $7 an hour to $15 an hour," Penn said, citing the push for a sharp increase in the federal minimum wage that Biden has embraced. “The other side of it is that if you had Republicans, they'd cut my Social Security.”

Still, Penn thinks Biden should pay the political price.

“He's captain of the ship, so he's responsible,” Penn said of the president.

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The AP-NORC poll of 1,172 adults was conducted May 12-16 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.0 percentage points.

Biden is a stupid fuck up.

Biden Is Furious That He's Below Trump in Polls but It Just Got Even Worse
By Nick Arama | May 31, 2022 1:00 PM ET

As we noted earlier, Joe Biden is in a quandary as to how to change his sliding numbers. He’s frustrated even that his numbers are worse than those of President Donald Trump. As NBC noted, “He’s now lower than Trump, and he’s really twisted about it,” another person close to the White House said. He also thinks Democrats aren’t defending him enough.

Biden is supposedly upset that his people are undercutting him, but his people respond, “We don’t say anything that the president doesn’t want us to say.” In other words, what Biden is saying now — or what NBC is spreading out there to try to make him look better — just doesn’t add up.

That’s the problem when it comes to Biden; that’s why the polls are continuing to crash: because no one believes that Joe Biden knows what he is doing and they believe all the issues that we are having to deal with can be laid right in the lap of his confusion.

It isn’t getting any better for him.

The Civiqs poll just hit the basement on Biden: 34 percent.



Back in December, the poll was bad at 37 percent and only five states had Joe Biden overwater in approval.

Now, only three states have him above water in approval, with just Hawaii at majority approval level. He’s underwater even in California at 42/46.

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air notes how the numbers have changed since April in those critical states for the midterms. Note, Biden has even slipped in Delaware, his home state.

Arizona: 32/59, was 35/57
Colorado: 36/52, was 40/51
Connecticut: 38/50, was 42/48
Delaware(!): 35/53, was 38/54
Georgia: 31/58, was 33/57
Minnesota: 39/52, was 41/50
Ohio: 29/61, was 31/60
Oregon: 41/47, was 41/48
Nevada: 33/58, was 35/57
Virginia: 34/55, was 37/53
Washington state: 42/48, was 44/47

He’s still seen favorably by black voters overwhelmingly (75/17) and barely by Hispanic voters (48/45), but that’s it. Majorities in every age demo see Biden unfavorably on a personal basis. So do college and non-college voters except for post-grads, who still rank him slightly unfavorably too (46/48). A plurality of women (44/49) see Biden unfavorably, a death knell for Democrats in the midterms and in 2024 if Biden runs again. And again, only five states give Biden a favorable ranking, one of which — New York — is only 47/46 on Biden personally.

No wonder he and other Democrats are throwing tantrums when they look at the numbers. That’s a message for disaster and I’m not even sure he’s hit the bottom yet. As Joe has shown us, he always seems to find a way to go lower. That’s why I think the prediction from Cook Political Report of a pick-up in the House of 20-35 seats is very conservative and I’m inclined to think it’s going to be much higher, given all these other numbers. It’s not a wave, but a tsunami coming.

I just spent 80 bucks to fill up my tank.

You know what I think of Biden

At the very least, he's not tweeting his bowel movements to the rest of the country while sitting on the toilet.

Grackle wrote:

Dark Poppy wrote:

At the very least, he's not tweeting his bowel movements to the rest of the country while sitting on the toilet.

 ahh, Another stooge afflicted with TDS. ..  I guess that's about the only good thing that comes to your mind when it comes to Biden

Trump hasn't posted on twitter at all for about 18 months, and still you complain about his tweets

Is TDS now part of the Book of Psychological Disorders, or is it simply another weird ass chant taught at Trump rallies?

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TDS now part of the Book of Psychological Disorders, or is it simply another weird ass chant taught at Trump rallies?

   So you actually believe i could have written that you're afflicted with a "weird ass chant a Trump rallies"? .. Does that make any sense to you? .. You quoted my post so i hafta assume you read it ..Maybe comprehension is your problem ...Anyway...

If you really don't know what TDS is then look it up or try asking someone else .. I'm not here to explain shit to you

     

Dark Poppy wrote:

At the very least, he's not tweeting his bowel movements to the rest of the country while sitting on the toilet.

Yeah because he's too busy shitting over the entire country.

Grackle wrote:

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TDS now part of the Book of Psychological Disorders, or is it simply another weird ass chant taught at Trump rallies?

   So you actually believe i could have written that you're afflicted with a "weird ass chant a Trump rallies"? .. Does that make any sense to you? .. You quoted my post so i hafta assume you read it ..Maybe comprehension is your problem ...Anyway...

If you really don't know what TDS is then look it up or try asking someone else .. I'm not here to explain shit to you

     

When your plastic deity begins talking out his ass and sounding like a crazy bird, TDS is the latest term to put an end to the debate.

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When your plastic deity begins talking out his ass and sounding like a crazy bird, TDS is the latest term to put an end to the debate.

Debate? .. What debate? You've yet to slobber anything debatable .. Non sequiturs .. You could just pound out ORANGE MAN BAD for every post and it'd be equivalent to your useless tripe

You quote an exchange then slobber some irrelevant, Trump bashing blather that has nothing to do with that which you quoted .. Either you don't know how message boards work or you're just plain fucking stupid ..could be both

Grackle wrote:

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When your plastic deity begins talking out his ass and sounding like a crazy bird, TDS is the latest term to put an end to the debate.

Debate? .. What debate? You've yet to slobber anything debatable .. Non sequiturs .. You could just pound out ORANGE MAN BAD for every post and it'd be equivalent to your useless tripe

You quote an exchange then slobber some irrelevant, Trump bashing blather that has nothing to do with that which you quoted .. Either you don't know how message boards work or you're just plain fucking stupid ..could be both

Go sneeze in your cornflakes, you old white men clutching onto your maga hats and conspiracy theories are going out with a pitiful whimper. You cavemen don't even have enough people to finish the circle jerk, which is pitiful.

The May numbers were not as good as April:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

Biden’s unemployment numbers are lower than any time between the ’70s and 2019, but he’s getting slammed over expensive gas
Fortune | Fri, June 3, 2022, 12:17 PM

More Americans are finding work than any time during the past 50 years except for just a few.

The 3.6% unemployment rate has been holding steady for three months in a row, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs report released on Friday. With the exception of the last few months of 2019 and the first few months of 2020, it’s a lower unemployment rate than any single month throughout the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s.

That’s usually a positive sign for the economy, especially one that has been ravaged by a global health crisis. From one perspective, jobs are the whole point of the economy: More workers means more productivity and fewer people struggling to pay their bills. President Joe Biden's stimulus package helped supercharge demand that created a jobs boom. There are just two problems: Inflation is also higher than any time since the late ’70s, and Americans don’t seem to care about all the new jobs as much as the high price of stuff.

Since America entered a post-vaccinated world and began reopening in full force last summer, consumer sentiment has been miserable. Despite the economy outperforming expectations in its recovery, consumer confidence was lower than it was during the depths of the pandemic at the end of 2021. Come May, it dropped to a 10-year low.

While the fact that we're still dealing with a pandemic two years later may have something to do with this pessimism, rising prices have been putting Americans in a foul mood. Their wallets are feeling the burn of inflation, and low unemployment just doesn't seem to be moving the needle.

Americans miss their fat wallets

The cost of life's necessities and pleasures have been soaring thanks to a number of reasons, from war to a historic supply shortage. Gas prices hit a record high of $4.67 per gallon on Wednesday. Food prices are climbing at rates Americans haven't seen in decades, with the cost of some items like beef increasing by 16%. And domestic airfare prices for summer vacation are up by 34% compared to summer 2019, per a report by online travel site Hopper.

It's all an effect of that high inflation. Although it moderated in April to an 8.3% year-over-year increase, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), a slower rate than the prior seven months of consecutive gains, it was still enough to eat away at Americans’ bank accounts.

An analysis by the Washington Post found that it’s hitting lower-income households the hardest because those spend a greater share of their total spending on necessities, some of inflation’s biggest targets. Both Kohl’s and Walmart noted that customers were starting to reel in their spending by shifting to more affordable alternatives or avoiding some purchases altogether. Even higher-income households are cutting back their discretionary spending on things like travel and dining out, per a CNBC survey.

In a speech on Friday following the jobs report, Biden noted the job market is the strongest it's been since World War II but acknowledged that prices at the pump and grocery store are the biggest challenges for working families, promising to bring down the cost of everyday goods.

To be sure, a disconnect between consumer sentiment and consumer behavior persists. While Americans’ shopping binge has curbed since last year’s stimulus, they’re still busy swiping their credit cards. And some economists believe we've reached peak inflation. Robert Triest, a Northeastern University economics professor, recently told Fortune he expects consumer prices to moderate, arguing the Fed’s interest rate increases will help cool the economy through the end of the year.

But talk of the Fed’s efforts to cool inflation have sent recessionary fears swirling.

“If the Fed is too aggressive with its efforts to slow inflation, they might end up hurting the overall economy and the jobs market,” Nancy Davis, the founder of Quadratic Capital Management, told Fortune last month. “It is a fine balance for the Federal Reserve to prioritize its inflation mandate without hurting the economy.”

When it comes to finding work for everyone or keeping costs low, there’s no question about what matters most to Americans.

Temple wrote:

I like this;

The total number of jobs created since Biden took office to 8.3 million.

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There are still eleven million + unemployed people.

The Wise And Powerful wrote:

Temple wrote:

I like this;

The total number of jobs created since Biden took office to 8.3 million.

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There are still eleven million + unemployed people.

I read about the unemployed--
They don't want to take the low paying jobs like retail-
There are millions of jobs that are not being filled--
Some people want what they want or nothing at all-
Still---
Bibens' plans and policies have produced the strongest job creation economy in modern times.
The unemployment rate now stands at 3.6% —
the fastest decline in unemployment to start a President’s term ever recorded.

$5.39 a gallon and rising...

Biden approval rating drops for third straight week in Reuters-Ipsos
Alex Gangitano
Wed, June 15, 2022, 7:18 AM

President Biden’s approval rating has dropped for its third straight week, according to a new Reuters-Ipsos poll.

The poll, which was completed on Tuesday, showed Biden’s approval rating at 39 percent, with 56 percent of Americans disapproving of his job performance. A three-week decline for Biden’s approval rating marks a tough month for the president with the cost of gas and goods surging for Americans.

Biden’s approval rating hit 39 percent last week in a Morning Consult poll, which was an all-time low at the time in that survey.

Among Democrats, 74 percent approved of Biden’s performance this week, down from 85 percent in August, according to the Reuters-Ipsos poll, which is dismal news for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections this fall. Among Republicans, 11 percent approve of Biden’s performance, which has been consistent since August.

The president is heading into the midterms contending with soaring inflation, as well as Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, multiple recent mass shootings and a pending Supreme Court decision likely overturning Roe v. Wade.

Biden has stressed that he is focused on lowering inflation. To deal with gas prices, Biden has ordered the release of millions of barrels of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve.

The latest Reuters-Ipsos poll was conducted on June 13 and 14 and among a total of 1,005 respondents. The margin of error in the poll was 4 percentage points.

Dow Jones under 30k... Americans are looking at their portfolios and they are NOT happy... six dollar gas... roaring inflation... biggest interest rate increase in decades... everyone certain a recession is coming if not already here...

Oh yeah Joe is just doing a bang-up job

C'mon man
... Kids liked to rub his legs in the pool ...he was buddies with Cornpop ..wimins hare smels gud .. No Malarkey
...Trump predicted what would happen

https://www.tiktok.com/@javontaethereporter/video/7109107201515523371?_t=8TDq37DZQoI&_r=1

Grackle wrote:

C'mon man
... Kids liked to rub his legs in the pool ...he was buddies with Cornpop ..wimins hare smels gud .. No Malarkey
...Trump predicted what would happen

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