Biden has a record-low approval rating six months before the November election.
  • echo@lemmings.world
    693·
    5 months ago

    As usual… a hit piece devoid of any actual information. Just more propaganda…

  • That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
    161·
    5 months ago

    While I’m willing to concede that Biden is unpopular now due to recent events, the claim thst he’s the least popular president in 75 years is laughably false.

    Newsweek seems to conveniently forget about Trump, who’s currently has 90+ pending criminal charges.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    135·
    5 months ago

    Looking solely at approval rating (% of people saying ‘I approve!’).

    If you look at DISAPPROVAL rating (% of people saying ‘I disapprove’) he comes across MARGINALLY better.

    https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/final-presidential-job-approval-ratings

    Notables:

    Truman - 56%
    Nixon - 66%
    Carter - 55%
    W. Bush - 61%
    Trump - 62%

    Biden? 62%

    https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/24/joe-bidens-approval-ratings/

      • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        153·
        5 months ago

        It is a valid question. I think ozmas antics among others have worn out a lot of generosity and goodwill on many peoples parts. I had a good laugh when Ozma themselves responded elsewhere that they post propaganda to spark debate. Honestly the main debate I’d seen on many of their posts was if they were genuine. But just an easily manipulable tool. Or if they genuinely had malicious desire such a accelerationism trying to get as many people as possible hurt. Though there’s always the third option. Kind of like Shapiro and aoc. I’m not 100% sure that ozma doesn’t just have the hots for Biden.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        5 months ago

        The mods aren’t your pet censors.

        You just want an enforced echo chamber where things you don’t want anyone to read are verboten.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
        418·
        5 months ago

        Technically, it’s not incorrect and it’s valuable for people to see what the opposition is saying, we aren’t running an echo chamber.

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          141·
          5 months ago

          I think it’s very telling that your statement of support was that it’s not technically incorrect. Though I honestly do sympathize with you a little bit. It’s hard to police a lot of this b*******. Thankfully in this instance it looks like the community definitely stepped up hard for it.

          Frankly there’s almost nothing of less value for discussion than polls. This far in advance they’re rather meaningless. And this one’s not telling us much we didn’t already know. People are terrifyingly ignorant. The fact that one of the best presidents of the last 50 years ( though perhaps not consequential. Carter) is technically the lowest ranked in popularity. Makes that glaringly clear.

          Unfortunately though there isn’t much that can really be done by mods with regards to someone being annoying and beating a dead horse into the dirt. Out of some need to gain attention or push some false narrative.

          • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
            41·
            5 months ago

            Could we have a weekly polls megathread? Though that likely just pushes more work into the mod team.

            I think what we have today is good, the community speaks, and the mods hopefully don’t burn out.

            Mods: you’re doing great.

            • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
              61·
              5 months ago

              Frankly I don’t think that’s a solution either. As I posted earlier. There really isn’t much here for a mod team to sink their teeth into. This really is much more the realm of the community policing itself. Which it did with a Vengeance in this case.

              Having a weird fetish or an obsession is not a bannable offense. And there could be actual polls worth discussing at some point. To be clear I would be just as annoyed with anyone else obsessively virtue signaling about other things as well. Like some Linux advocates. And I say that as a heavy user myself. I think people are just getting tired of scrolling and seeing ozmas multiple daily “Biden bad” posts. Generally linking to a specious poll. Or hyperbolic opinion piece not worth discussing. All in furtherance of pushing a message/agenda.

              It’s especially weird too. Because I do see them post other things that are often more reasonable. As long as it’s about anything other than Biden and Israel.

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
            42·
            5 months ago

            The statistic itself lacks nuance and context, that’s where the downvotes and comments come in.

            It doesn’t do anyone any good to pretend everything is hunky dory for Biden when it very clearly is not.

  • Heikki@lemm.ee
    72·
    5 months ago

    To be fair, the only people that respond to poll calls are the retirees with land lines that mainstream Faux News all day, everyday. I can say I have recieved a few calls that my caller ID says are political calls and I don’t answer

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Biden is set to face off against Donald Trump in November in a rematch of their 2020 race, as both candidates appear to have secured enough delegates to win his party’s nomination.

    But with the election just six months away, Biden is seeing a record-low approval rating amid criticism over his handling of issues such as the Israel-Hamas war and immigration.

    On Day 1,202 of his presidency, only 38.6 percent of Americans are giving Biden positive marks, according to FiveThirtyEight’s aggregation.

    Biden’s handling of the economy is particularly hurting his approval rating, according to a recent survey from the Harvard Center for American Political Studies and the Harris polling company.

    Biden has tried to make the case that his handling of the economy successfully helped the U.S. recover from the pandemic, but Americans continue to face high prices and interest rates as well as concerns about housing affordability.

    The poll surveyed 1,961 registered voters from April 24 to 5 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

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