Biden's job rating sinks to 42 percent in NBC News poll a year from midterms

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans now disapprove of President Joe Biden's job performance, while half give him low marks for competence and uniting the country, according to results from the latest national NBC News poll.

What's more, the survey finds that 7 in 10 adults, including almost half of Democrats, believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction, as well as nearly 60 percent who view Biden's stewardship of the economy negatively just nine months into his presidency.

One year before next year's midterm elections and less than a week before Virginia's closely watched race for governor, Biden's lower standing has also taken a toll on his party: Democrats trail Republicans on which party better handles the economy, inflation and immigration, while they’ve lost ground on issues like education and the coronavirus.

“Democrats face a country whose opinion of President Biden has turned sharply to the negative since April,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/biden-s-job-rating-sinks-42-percent-nbc-news-poll-n1282781

[Polybius]

1. If it's like this in a year, we're doomed for the 2022 elections

As it stands now, it'll probably only cost us Virginia. That sucks, but it's way better than losing the House and/or Senate.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. We're NOT doomed if we start puttin up the most progressive candidates we can find!!

[maxsolomon]

11. LOL, that's a sure recipe for success.

Are you following the Seattle City Attorney race? SEATTLE, which went 80% for Biden, is about to elect a REPUBLICAN over an Abolitionist.

1. Once these 2 bills get signed, the polling will go up.
2. How about putting up the most ELECTABLE candidates we can find?

[brooklynite]

28. Um, no they're not...

Seattle has a top-two Election system. Both candidates are Democrats. The mainstream Democrat will win.

[Polybius]

30. Not true, she's a former Democrat turned Republican

Seattle’s Choice: A Police Abolitionist or a Law-and-Order Republican?

[maxsolomon]

33. Former Democrat turned Republican IN THE TRUMP ERA.

It seems to me that Davison made the switch to get through the Primary, where she'd have come in 3rd to the Abolitionist or to the incumbent.

Which makes her a Careerist.

[LenaBaby61]

16. Putting up progressives won't work...

Because you'll still have a GQP US Taliban Party blocking everything Dems try to accomplish. You have Manchin & Senima filling GQP Lite roles and are ready to SINK Pres. Biden/Dems at any turn (we have no voting rights bill because of those two, and if we don't have that we're in a world of hurt), and you have Americans with very short memory spans who've all but forgotten hos Fatso45 tried to do in turning this country into Russia, because he was so enamored of his buddies total authoritarian rule which is what his buddy putin has, because he's president for LIFE, and if all those things weren't bad enough, we have a mostly right-winged corporate media who'll give their souls to have tRump or tRump-lite back into the White House so they can recoup the ad buy $$$ they used to get with fatso, because as a total disaster and rolling-wreck, he bought in the ad dollars $$$$

What makes matters worse is that friends who--who are older and very LOYAL Dem supporters to their core--watched Merrick Garland's performance last week, and were totally unimpressed with him, and are worried that he'll NOT indict tRump or go after him at all, because as one said "He's fucking weak sauce, and probably won't even bother going after tRump." Another friend said that the way Cotton embarrassed and took down Garland was a disaster. He told me Garland was babbling and sat there looking like a dazed and confused fool. He's worse than Mr. Peabody." HIS words. I didn't bother watching because I kind of figured that Garland with his polite manner (which is what most people have and shouldn't be punished for) would be butchered by the GQP who are a viscous and nasty bunch of treasonous hyenas. Rotten mutherfukkers. The GQP don't care about democracy. Garland seems to be a good guy, and I know his plate is full of trying to get through and past the landmines fatso45 left for Biden, and I've been one to give him a wide birth, but I now feel more as the days pass that he was not the right person for the job.

[Elessar Zappa]

20. Things can change a lot in a year.

His approval in November of 22 could be 60% or 35%. It’s impossible to predict.

[shrike3]

50. Exactly. A year is an eternity in politics.

[Walleye]

2. It's always darkest before the dawn?

[Sneederbunk]

15. I've heard it's always darkest before the bottom falls out.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. I don't get these numbers at all.

[dpibel]

7. Could have something to do

with the fact that casual news consumers experience a nonstop barrage of "Biden failing" and "Dems in disarray."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. So a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy thing.

[LenaBaby61]

17. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

Yes, a mostly corporate news media who wants excitement and tRump or tRump lite back in the White House so that they can recoup the ad dollars they were raking in under fatso45. Plus, MOST Americans have short attention spans when it comes to the GQP Party who have mastered the art of blaming everything that's bad on Dems, and Dems don't fight back hard enough at times.

[brooklynite]

29. The same media ran endless stories about how bad Trump's polling was as President.

[LenaBaby61]

38. The same media ran endless stories about how bad Trump's polling was as President.

I'll stick with Eric Boehlert's assessment of the mostly corporate media reporting over the top and almost weekly 'negative' reporting of Biden's polling numbers.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

41. Exactly.. Rt TY.. Thank

Goodness for Eric Boehlert!

[Irish_Dem]

13. People hate it when you try to save their lives and give them money and benefits.

We Americans are strange creatures.

[unblock]

5. The economy grew more at a staggering rate in the first half of the year

If Biden were a republican, he'd be sainted already.

But he's a democrat, so all the media can talk about is the obvious inflation that always accompanies a booming economy.

The media has such a right-wing bias!

[Decoy of Fenris]

39. Like hell, "The Economy" is code-speak for Wall Street, nothing more.

I don't give two singular shits about how good "The Economy" is, when it ignores 99.9% of Americans. "The Economy" includes Bitcoin and short-selling Wall-Street lifers. Fuck "The Economy", we need a plethora of jobs that pay workable, living wages to all; Only then can America recover.

No right-wing bias there, that's a fundamental truth. Most people aren't tied up in "The Economy" unless their wage-slave employers so graciously allow them such an INCREDIBLE benefit as risky gambling in the stock market, and people are quitting their jobs left and right due to lack of proper compensation.

[CTyankee]

6. Doesn't this happen to every President in the year following his election?

I thought this was just something we always can expect.

[Polybius]

8. Not the Bush's

They were the opposite, they started sky high and then sank.

[Jakes Progress]

9. Yes. But this year it means more.

If we lose the House and Senate, this country goes away.

[LenaBaby61]

18. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[shrike3]

10. Hasn't it been around 42 percent for a while, though? Maybe I missed something.

[Jakes Progress]

12. This proves Cipolla's 1st Basic Law of Human Stupidity.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

[link:https://medium.com/mind-cafe/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity-513de9dd0bd5|

[LenaBaby61]

19. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[bluestarone]

21. The RETHUGS destroying us and the idiots blame

Us Dems. What a bunch of fucking MORONS!

[rso]

22. Biden

No worries, still lots of time before the mid-terms.

[Naio]

23. with Rasmussen there and trafagar and other bias polls I don't believe that numbers .

[PortTack]

26. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[LogicFirst]

24. NBC has been anti-Biden forever.

Some polls have him at 46%.

[rurallib]

25. It really helps to own 95% of the media

including Facebook. Makes it much easier to get your message out and normalize it. Even when your message it having people stay unvaccinated during a deadly pandemic.

The medium IS the message!

[PortTack]

27. Yet various parts of the BBB bill is very popular with factions of the bill garnering 70-79% support

Make that make sense...

It doesn’t! Just the m$m doing their best to bash a good president!

[PoliticAverse]

31. Trump vs Biden - follow along week by week...

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Comparison_of_opinion_polling_during_the_Trump_and_Biden_administrations

[shrike3]

48. According to your link, Biden's approval is at 45 percent.

At the same time in his term, Trump's was 39 percent. I don't really see this as a reason to panic.

[left-of-center2012]

32. It would help if we could pass his agenda n/t

[cayugafalls]

34. Most people seem to forget that the M$M is the mouthpiece of the elite who rule...just sayin'

There is no difference between the media of today and the King's town crier of the past.

This is the King's message. Nothing more.

We the people are simply fools for thinking otherwise.

Peace

[FloridaBlues]

35. Have to say getting this major piece of legislation passed and the back and forth hasn't helped him

With his poll numbers. Also the supply chain even tho private companies are mostly responsible for this jam up at the ports. People blame the President.
Of course it doesn’t help media repeatedly talking about poll numbers fits right in to the narrative.
His numbers will go up as we continue to improve on covid numbers.

[jcmaine72]

36. Just a Halloween sale on fake poo from the world's largest novelty store...

The American Media.

Come back on Tuesday for their annual Election Day sale on hand buzzers - 25% off.

[MichMan]

37. People are reminded of inflation every week when they fill their tanks and buy groceries

[roamer65]

40. Blue state secession looking better every day.

If we dump the money sucking red states and unite with Canada, we would make an unbelievably great confederation.

If the Repukes steal the House in 2022, negotiations should start immediately after for separation.

[rockfordfile]

43. No

[roamer65]

45. Yes.

[INdemo]

42. I just dont believe this

The owner of NBC (Comcast and a Trump supporter) will do what ever it takes to paint a negative picture of President Biden.
This poll was a Sampling of 820 registered voters. So Towards the end of the article they admit that a large percentage of Republicans were included in their sampling.
The sad part is of this inaccurate poll whether its 800 sampling or 50..it is going to be repeated over and over again especially by the right leaning media.
I also read where 72% of Americans did not approve of the "Build Back Better of which I also don't believe but is total Bullshit. No other to put it

[rockfordfile]

44. This isn't news

[yaesu]

46. after 4 years of the most incompetent criminally insane dictator in history and these idiots are

bitching about Biden? And about that unity thingy, its not his job to do the impossible, blame it on the fascists troublemaking.

[yardwork]

47. Thanks to the media. /nt

[alfredo]

49. This happens every time a president

Makes changes, even if they are beneficial to the nation as a whole.

If voters see real improvement, that might bring his numbers up

[J_William_Ryan]

51. Biden's polling is bad because

the pandemic is still around and the economy is struggling.

Gas prices are high, the job market is in flux, and there’s uncertainty about the future.

Any president’s numbers would be in the toilet.

This is the nature of presidential politics and the clueless, capricious public.

[Roy Rolling]

52. Genuinely Beneficial Governance

Biden’s doing a good job, as measured by the things that matter to a healthy democracy and leader of the free world.

Fuck those flakes who approve of him before he’s done anything, but disapprove once he begins actually working. Their opinion matters the least because they chime in without any corresponding data to justify their claim.

Regardless, it’s said ”for something cheap, there may be many buyers. For something genuine, there may be few.”

[zanana1]

53. Manchin and Sinema have done their job well.

Nixed progress and made Biden's name mud.

[Buckeyeblue]

54. Don't care about overall rating. What is he doing in states that he won?

[malthaussen]

55. Typical. All we hear about is Republican obstructionism...

... so naturally, everybody blames Biden.

-- Mal