Words like “frustrated” and “disappointed” top people’s descriptions of his presidency, along with the feeling that he’s “distracted” and not focusing on what they care about. https://t.co/GUa6CR0vYI pic.twitter.com/ZZrUcpuxcK
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
Biden’s job approval at the 1-year mark is 44%, despite the fact that only 26% of Americans think things in the country are going well. It dropped months ago and has not recovered.
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
Biden started out up in the 60s, buoyed by optimism about getting the pandemic under control. pic.twitter.com/JHmThMCeMy
“Focus” is a running theme in this story. Most say Biden isn’t paying enough attention to either the economy or inflation — not just that he isn’t handling them well. pic.twitter.com/eoQMm0QJhc
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
Few think Biden and fellow Democrats are focused on the right things, overall. pic.twitter.com/1hUJ3IGnD7
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
COVID:
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
A year ago, a slim majority expected the pandemic to get better with Biden in office. For a while it did. But today, just a third think the effort to contain it is going well, with a similar number saying his policies are helping make it better. https://t.co/GUa6CR0vYI pic.twitter.com/e2s8368ixO
Biden’s job rating on handling COVID is down to the lowest point in his presidency. https://t.co/GUa6CR0vYI pic.twitter.com/MtV0p9VqdL
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
And when asked specifically why they don’t think he’s handling it well, two thirds cite information about the outbreak being confusing. Few attribute it to a lack of vaccinations. pic.twitter.com/w8hg1F46rH
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
CONFUSING COVID INFO:
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
A growing number of Americans find COVID information from health officials and public agencies to be confusing. https://t.co/GUa6CR0vYI pic.twitter.com/n1NaTcuE3M
QUALITIES: After the much-criticized way U.S. troops left Afghanistan, Biden took a hit on some specific qualities, and he has yet to recover that lost ground. Fewer than half describe the president’s actions as “competent”, “effective,” or “focused.” pic.twitter.com/uOozXMD6pt
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
Could minds change?
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 16, 2022
When we ask people what could change their minds about Biden, the answers center on inflation, not legislation. His detractors say they’d think better of him if he manages to get inflation down –more than if BBB passes or if voting rights does. pic.twitter.com/IXT1SCGoXE
BREAKING: We have a new poll out.
We also know how much our friends in DC follow the polls. Americans weren’t impressed by Dementia Joe’s outburst in Georgia and don’t buy the woke “21st century Jim Crow” messaging.
“Perceived focus matters: he gets much more overall disapproval from people who don’t think he’s focused enough on inflation or the economy. That’s true even if you control for partisanship.
When we ask people what could change their minds from here, the answers center on inflation, not legislation. His detractors say they’d think better of him if he manages to get inflation down — and say so at more than twice the rate than if the Build Back Better bill passes, or if voting rights does, for that matter. In all, the public’s evaluations of him appear framed around their most pressing problems, more so than on the fate of his bills in Congress. …”
This poll screams that inflation is the issue.
Most people don’t care about 1/6 or Build Back Better or voting rights reform. They care about rising prices and getting poorer by the day, not inflated rhetoric about protecting “our democracy.”
Note: Normies don’t even know who Bull Connor is and calling Joe Manchin a white supremacist isn’t going to move him to sign off on Build Back Better.
Americans want Biden to focus on important issues like the economy and inflation. Dummies. Any problem that Socialists like Biden “focus on” is immediately made far worse, anything good that Socialists “focus on” is immediately ruined.
“We also know how much our friends in DC follow the polls. Americans weren’t impressed by Dementia Joe’s outburst in Georgia and don’t buy the woke “21st century Jim Crow” messaging.”
His messaging is a mix of 19th and mid 20th Century politics, like all of the other Cold War relics in Washington DC. There’s nothing 21st Century about him, at all.