@return2ozma well, when you place your administration as a patron of despicable foreign policy, and the young people who voted for you (or would vote for you) are protesting that foreign policy, how is this a surprise?
also, during the 2020 campaign, trump's base's biggest complaint was generally that he was running on a platform of "i'm not biden", so i guess both cancelled out
Trump repealed 111 climate change regulations. Biden is enacting new ones.
Trump repealed civil and trans rights. Biden replaced them.
Trump repealed net neutrality. Biden replaced it.
Trump gave corporations and the wealthy larger tax cuts than the working class. Biden is replenishing the deficit off of corporations and the wealthy while cutting taxes for middle and low income workers.
I could go all day, but I think you get the point.
He honestly has a lot to run on. People just like to attribute A LOT of Trump’s failures to Biden. And Biden doesn’t like to boast. I hope that changes.
trump's platform seems more to be "the election was stolen", which his base believes
biden's base on the other hand is horrifically split over his mishandling of israel, and arguably the demographics that are credited with democratic wins in 2022 are most effected
his poll numbers are in the shitter, and over the last two presidential elections polls have been incorrectly biased towards the democratic candidate
@slurpyslop@return2ozma@Omegamanthethird it's a cheap narrative for an election, but it can work. Trouble this time is that voters' memories are too short to remember just how effed up Cult 45/TFG was.
Concerning. But also Obama was less popular than Trump at this point and we know how those both turned out, so hopefully Biden can change it around. Maybe don’t send a genocidal government bombs that will be dropped on children? Idk I’m not a political scientist
I wonder how well the Clinton and Bushes would have fared if their constituents were constantly bombarded by negative political coverage on social media and in memes. They only had to watch out for people who read newspapers.
Gallup is one of the most reliable polling institutions in the US. Biden really has actually managed to beat out the previously most unpopular president at this point, GHW Bush.
It’s not too surprising. Dems are a lot less tribal. They’re more likely to disapprove actions from their own party. And neither one is getting a lot from the other side
The only thing that really matters is whether the people who disapprove of both will vote one way or the other. Disapproving Republicans are probably voting Republican and disapproving Democrats are probably voting Democratic.
Some of these guys are completely disconnected. They don't believe that peaceful revolution is possible and don't understand the length of time and amount of work involved in actual change.
They’re the same people who don’t understand neoliberals are Bush Jr Republicans. They see “liberal” and assume neo ones are bad, they think neoliberals are modern Democrats.
disapproving Democrats are probably voting Democratic.
Not necessarily. Many democrats are going to drop Biden, either to send a message or just because he's not inspiring them to go through the trouble of voting. We can argue about the correctness of this course of action, but even just a return to historically average voter turnout will result in a Trump victory.
There is a recency bias that comes with rating presidents and we are in one of the most polarized periods in American history right now. It’s not that Gallup is wrong, it’s that there is a lot more context to consider here. A president with this approval 20 years ago was dead in the water. But it’s not 2004.
Let me very clear that this does not mean Biden is in a good position. I could never argue that in good faith. He’s got a hard election ahead of him. But a lot of these people who disapprove of Biden either hate Trump more or already hated whoever the Democrat was going to be regardless.
You are free to post quality content, too. Gallup is one of the best polling institutions in the country, it’s pretty hard to post better quality polls.
I mean, some of that is also on people who don’t post stuff. Like, if you don’t like what someone posts but don’t post stuff youself…it’s not likely that they’re gonna change what they post to fit what you want.
This community has 16k active users. If each active person on here posted one article a month, it’d be innundated in content, like an average of a new post every two minutes, day and night.
EDIT: I just submitted my next seven months worth!
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