Joe Biden's approval rating falls to all-time low after SOTU
The president is recoding an average approval rating of 37.4 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight's calculations.
Polls are worthless.
What matters is your vote. Get registered, get to the polls, and vote.
Polls are informative. I will be voting for Biden in the general election or whoever the democrat is, but if Biden is struggling it's good to know that to pressure him to do better. Your response reeks of the awful Clinton messaging that got Trump elected.
At some point if all the polls are saying Biden's not doing too well, repeating "polls don't matter" becomes dangerous. Sticking your head in the sand instead of pressuring Biden to do better to defeat fascist Trump is incredibly privileged.
What are some specific things Biden could do better that are also within his sole power to do? And before you reply, no, I will not look at your Twitter account or "just Google it and see for myself". I'm asking you a question: use your words to answer.
Polls are definitely not worthless, I agree... but this poll is confusing as fuck. Post SOTU polling showed the speech in highly favorable terms and the GOP response was extremely underwhelming... even here on lemmy there was a pretty positive response from the more progressive people.
On the whole I'm just confused how an overall positive response could result in lower favorability.
Well said.
Worthwhile note: HarrisX polls rank poorly to fivethirtyeight. Not saying this is bad data, but not great data.
I haven't approved of anyone I've ever voted for in a presidential election, and maybe twice in other elections including the one where my dad was running for town council. It's not like I actually have a choice.
I respect that, but you can still make that known at the polls with write-in, with third party, or just scrawling "fuck all y'all" over the ballot.
Even if it doesn't lead to someone winning, every one of the above does get recorded. Every year mickey mouse gets a fraction of the vote, and lets be real, if Mickey ever got 5% of the vote, every candidate would be announcing their runs at Disney World with the hope they could attract just half that group.
If you do nothing at the polls, everyone will assume you don't care and don't care back.
If you do something at the polls, that doesn't help either party, then the two other parties might actually be incentivized to get your vote doing things you DO care about. You at least show up, so you are someone they should care about.
If for no other reason, it's a record of someone flipping the bird to everyone in power, a small act of defiance that can't make it back to you because voting is anonymous. If you're really that powerless the process should only take 5 minutes because the lines to the polls will be short.
vote vote vote. even if it's "none of the above"
it's a record of someone flipping the bird to everyone in power
I sincerely doubt they give a shit about it.
The reason I vote is because my mom would disown me if I don't. Expecting it to make a difference disheartened me so much I have given up any chance of it doing anything.
If I want to flip the middle finger to people in power I'll blow up a building or something. At least that would look cool.
When did Newsweek turn into a right wing rag?
Around 2018 when they were bought by IBT Media. They try to toe the line to seem less biased, but it’s not hard to see in the choice of topics covered and the rigor they apply (though their fact checking was never great).
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Joe Biden's average approval rating is currently at its lowest of his entire time in office despite a positive reaction to his recent State of the Union address.
The average ratings come amid long-standing concerns Biden has faced about his struggling poll numbers and a lack of enthusiasm for the 81-year-old's reelection bid.
Biden's low approval rating comes close on the heels of recent polls suggesting that potential voters were encouraged by the president's State of the Union address on March 7.
During the speech, Biden hit out at Trump for trying to win the November election by running on a campaign of "hate, anger, revenge, retribution" while also slamming the "insurrectionists" who "stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger to the throat of American democracy" during the January 6 attack.
Biden listed his accomplishments in office, including stating the U.S. economy rose from being "on the brink" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to one which is now "literally the envy of the world."
Heath Brown, an associate professor of public policy at the City University of New York, said Biden gave "one hell of a speech" on March 7.
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Biden's approval rating currently stands at 37.4 percent, the lowest since he recorded an average of 37.6 percent in December 2023, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight's national average calculations.
Biden's disapproval rating is at 56.5 percent, giving the president a net disapproval score of 19.2 points—both of which are record markers of disapproval for the president.
The average ratings come amid long-standing concerns Biden has faced about his struggling poll numbers and a lack of enthusiasm for the 81-year-old's reelection bid.
538 is useless. they overpredicted trump consistently throughout the primaries. I don't understand why anyone gives them the time of day.