While it’s always worth casting a cold eye on polling numbers, it’s striking how poorly the Leader of the Free World is doing these days across the board. Real Clear Politics has the numbers and they aren’t pretty:
RCP Average 12/17 – 1/11 — 41.9 53.1 -11.2
Quinnipiac 1/7 – 1/10 1178 RV 35 54 -19
Politico/Morning Consult 1/8 – 1/9 2000 RV 44 53 -9
Rasmussen Reports 1/9 – 1/11 1500 LV 40 58 -18
Economist/YouGov 1/8 – 1/11 1258 RV 45 51 -6
IBD/TIPP 1/5 – 1/8 1308 A 44 45 -1
Reuters/Ipsos 1/5 – 1/6 1000 A 45 51 -6
Economist/YouGov 1/2 – 1/4 1201 RV 43 51 -8
It’s one thing if Rasmussen, a pollster generally favorable to the GOP, posts ugly numbers for Joe Biden. What’s truly eye-opening are the results from Quinnipiac, a poll historically gentle with the portsiders. If their numbers are accurate, Biden’s disapproval rating is a whopping -19, and that’s from a poll conducted after the recent Pelosi-produced passion play of 1/6.
So what are the larger implications? A few thoughts:
- If you’re Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema, do you fear the political wrath of the leader of your party? Apostasy has rarely been safer.
- If you’re Xi or Putin, do you concern yourself with anything Joe Biden says? Or, for that matter, with anything he does? I doubt the citizenry of Ukraine or Taiwan is particularly sanguine at the moment.
- If you’re Mitch McConnell, do you sleep well? Never better, I would guess, and certainly better than your average Ukranian.
- If you’re Stacey Abrams, do you see any value in hanging with Grandpa Joe?
While there’s certainly entertainment value in watching Uncle Joe moving kinda slow, we’re not headed for Petticoat Junction at the moment.
I’m encouraged by the hard corps left friends of mine, again, the ones that still talk to me, that are waking up to the massive scam that the DemoCommie party has been for the last twenty years.
As far as Joe Manchin goes, he said that his phone is ringing off the hook with calls from commies like Bill Clinton, Barackus Obamanus and Oprah Winfrey, trying to get him to step and fetch for the party. Obviously, bullying and/or blackmail are the tools of the left. I’ve called his office, as well as Kyrsten Sinema’s to express my thanks for their willingness to look out for their constituents and their refusal to break long standing rules. I wasn’t surprised to hear that both of their staffers thanked me and relayed that they have received hundreds of calls from Republicans and Democrats, expressing the same sentiments.
On another note, I’ve learned that Joe has his own version of the bill that isn’t all good, so that may be his game strategy.
So what are the larger implications?
No need to pretend anymore! Full speed ahead to that Demo-fascist authoritarian regime! Oh, wait, and just to rub salt in that wound, let’s pass all sorts of Voting Rights laws to keep the voting theater running so the little people can think they have a voice.
If we believe the polls, people are unhappy with Lesko Brandon. Why?
Assuming the poll questions are neutral, not push polls to influence the result; and assuming the poll demographic reflects the public, not skewed to influence the result; then we ask what hot-button issues are on top of people’s minds and what Lesko Brandon has done about them.
I’d suggest the top two concerns are: Covid (for people on the Left, who are afraid and think he should do more to Make It Go Away); and economic prosperity (for people on the Right, who are afraid he’s Making It Go Away).
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Biden’s popularity hasn’t dropped much with democrats or Republicans, but it has completely cratered with the independents who determine the winners of elections. This is what has the Dems in despair.
The more Biden differentiates himself from Trump, and Democrats from Republicans, the worse down ticket Democrats will fare with independents.
In the past year we have learned more than we wanted to know about Joe Biden. He is attracted to bad ideas. He ignores what good advice he gets. He doesn’t seem to understand the dynamics of the senate, despite being a senator for 32 years and senate president for 8 years. He believes that he has charisma which he does not possess.
Yet, because he has bare majorities in the house and senate, he is on the offensive. His significant opposition comes from people within a Democrat party that broadly agrees with his agenda. If the GOP wins the house and senate in November, we will get to see how Biden behaves when he faces multiple congressional investigations.
If I’m in the House GOP leadership, I’m using threats of very harsh treatment next year, against reprobates that are likely to survive the mid-terms, weighed against somewhat less harsh, in order to put an end to the J6 witch hunt, and get the Zeks released from the DC Gulag.
The DOJ has arrested several leaders of the 3% movement and charged them with conspiracy and sedition. They know they’ll never get convictions, that’s not the point. They’ve been getting guilty pleas to parading without permit, and trespassing from retired old people, while Pelosi and Schumer are screeching “INSURRECTION!”.
They look like assholes, which they are. So the DOJ is looking for something; anything to polish their boots on before next November.
Crushing that goal must be job 1.
@boss – If there’s anyone in Washington who should be taking Bill Clinton’s calls, it’s Joe Biden. Maybe Bill could walk Joe through a triangulation infographic.
Keep in mind; leftist rodents are just as disgusted with their rat leaders as right wing dissidents are with grifting, GOP neo-cons.
Crushing politicians is popular everywhere; especially when people see a benefit in their day-to-day lives.
Only a real piece of shit would object to seeing Eric Swallowell and Liz Cheny reduced to a rhetorical grease spots.
The Jan 6 anniversary circus did not move the public towards the Dems by as much as a single point.
I have never in my life seen so many supposedly intelligent people engage in so much wickedness for so little gain.
NW, you’re assuming Pedo Joe is calling the shots; he’s not. The key players start with Ron Klain, and spread out from there.
Considering most of these polls lean libturd by as much as 10 points, the dislike for Brandon admin is beyond questionable or redeemable. I can’t wait to see who Ghislain will name. We may finally see Bill put out to pasture.
No help from the veep:
@craigmelvin asks if it’s time to change admin’s strategy on Covid, Harris says:
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down”
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1481626312041246721?s=20
Today’s Word: Sedition. Look it up.
Today’s Word: Sedition. Look it up.
Today’s word: threadjack.
Alternatively, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I wouldn’t mind resurrecting the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, but only if we resurrected ALL of them, including the part about summary imprisonment or deportation of non-citizens.
Lesko Brandon advocating for immediate deportation of all non-citizens might improve his polling numbers. As would building The Wall to keep them from sneaking back in.
Who types up his teleprompter script? Can we hack it to insert this? Awesome.
Brandon and the DemoCommies need to face the fact that he has fallen and he can’t get up.
Gosh — could have sworn Woolly brought Jan 6 into the thread…..
That’s the problem with Progressives. They read until the recognize a word from the Daily Chanting Points email, then post.
MP’s comment wasn’t about last year’s Great Insurrection When Congress Nearly Died, it was about why the polling numbers haven’t moved in favor of Democrats despite this year’s Greatest Show Trial On Earth.
If you want to read about how badly the Dems are misreading their situation, from a friendly source, check out this Politico article from last month:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/democrats-biden-polling-woes-523719
Some important Dems were counting on BBB passing so they could claim victory & steer messaging. Hell, I knew in September it was a no-go because of Manchin and Sinema. What the Hell is wrong with these people?
Love this quote:
“White House spokesperson Andrew Bates argued that while the president is contending with the pandemic and inflation, ‘Republicans in Congress act to help Covid spread, worsen the global problem of inflation and raise taxes on the middle class to protect tax giveaways to the wealthy.'”
You run with that, fella.
Gosh — could have sworn Woolly brought Jan 6 into the thread…..
You will notice I didn’t nuke your comment, although I could have. I also mentioned 1/6 in the context of not moving the needle in the polls. Your tendency is to use passing comments to threadjack; it’s a pattern established over time. Like Mitch, I prefer not to nuke comments. But your tendency still sucks.
Stephen Green:
Undaunted by political reality, Biden and his coterie of hardcore leftists decided to affect radical changes without having even a Senate majority. It might be the biggest — not to mention the fastest — presidential self-own in this century. Biden’s epic failures are the albatross he hung around his own neck.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/01/14/axios-cant-hide-bidens-epic-failures-n1549510
It is worse than that.
Schumer promised a vote on the “voting rights bill” before MLK day, assuming he could get 50 votes for it. Good for publicity, if nothing else, a demonstration of how the senate filibuster was thwarting the will of the people!
But Senator Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii could not possibly attend because he has covid and couldn’t attend to vote, according to Schumer’s rules, so they only had 49 votes.
What a moron. I imagine that Cocaine Mitch McConnell is having a good laugh over this.
Biden’s speech in Georgia the other day — which had no hope at all of increasing the chance that the bill would pass, given his failure to eliminate the filibuster — is being widely criticized for alienating even moderates.
Biden does not write his own speeches, obviously, but of course he approves them.
So I looked at exactly who is writing Biden’s speeches?
Apparently it is a guy named Vinay Reddy. Reddy was Biden’s speech writer during the Dem primaries, when he could play his “hate the Republicans and independents” audience to his heart’s content. Seems like Reddy is doing more harm than good for Biden at this point.
Watching Biden’s disastrous, incoherent presser about the failure of his voting reform law should convince even hard core Democrats that Biden isn’t playing with a full deck and is not really making policy any more. Some people say Ron Klain is the power behind the throne. I say that it is Jill Biden, because Jill Biden is a hard lefty pseudo-intellectual and, while Ron Klain can’t keep her from meeting with Joe Biden, Jill can keep Ron Klain from meeting with Joe.
Scary thing is that apparently a third of the electorate still supports Biden even after all these debacles, and (per MP’s study of who’s writing the speeches) a speechwriter who seems to be keen on spreading as much “nonsense” as he can. One would figure that given that there is “YouTube” for repeating the nonsense and correcting it, he’d get some clue and conscience about what he writes for President Zero, but apparently not.
I also remember conservative rejoicing over the then-abyssmal ratings of Mr. Obama. Keep your powder dry, boys, the battle’s not won yet.
I’m fairly convinced that in our current political climate, no president could do well. Add to that climate, two oppositional senators from your own party, and you might as well quack. Cuz you’re a lame duck.
Lol, troll finds his talking point. The dhimmis and the mediots(birm) have already pulled out the “it’s an ungovernable country” card. Not gropey joe’s fault, no siree, just ungovernable.
This is not rocket science. The public has given/is giving the Biden administration a road map to success: focus more on the economy. They aren’t doing it.