How Popular Is Joe Biden?
Latest polls on President Joe Biden’s approval ratings
Still lower than Obamas 62% in the same time frame.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
538: First approval ratings for Joe Biden (53-54%, higher than Trump ever got)
- Thread starter Infinity Times Two
- Start date
Still lower than Obamas 62% in the same time frame.
How Popular Is Joe Biden?
Latest polls on President Joe Biden’s approval ratingsprojects.fivethirtyeight.com
Still lower than Obamas 62% in the same time frame.
Nice to see. Trump got only 46-47 percent of the vote in each election, Biden got over 51 percent, so his approval should be a lot higher than the guy who lost the popular vote by a combined 10 million votes. It was expected to be lower than Obama's because we are a lot more divided than even 2008.
Oh, and Rasmussen has Trump at 48 percent approval, but they had Trump at 51 percent approval on his last day in office (while other pollsters had him in the 30's and low 40's). They should be shut down.
I'm not sure we'll ever see those kind of numbers againHow Popular Is Joe Biden?
Latest polls on President Joe Biden’s approval ratings
Still lower than Obamas 62% in the same time frame.
Early Obama was a different kind of political world. Highly unlikely to see those numbers again.How Popular Is Joe Biden?
Latest polls on President Joe Biden’s approval ratings
Still lower than Obamas 62% in the same time frame.
Aggregators like 538 account for partisan bias in pollsters
Obama's numbers had more to do with W being a complete and total failure, and people were just happy somebody in charge took on a leadership role
I mean following trump should be the same phenomenon, arguably significantly more so
Trump was an utter failure too. The difference is that the population is much more brainwashed than it was in 2008 thanks to Facebook, YouTube, Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, etc. W didn't have a massive cult like Trump does.
18% gap is way bigger than I expected. I'm sure the 54% is mostly people who voted for him/leaned toward him to begin with, so I'd bet that gap is mostly Republicans/conservatives who have more of an "eh, no strong feelings" sort of position. Not what you'd think considering the polarization. Those are the Republicans who would probably end up sticking with the party over Trump in the future.
Eh, Bush was done after 8 years, so people were ready to move on. Trump and many republicans still think he should be president, so he still has a psychological hold over a lot of these ijits
Letting the cult die down by established deprogramming techniques.
Biden isn't getting that Obama push.
Obama was a world historic symbolic win for Black folks worldwide. White Liberals, independents, and moderates were extremely excited at absolving themselves and America of racism via his victory. Biden can't give them that for obvious reasons.
Obama was a world historic symbolic win for Black folks worldwide. White Liberals, independents, and moderates were extremely excited at absolving themselves and America of racism via his victory. Biden can't give them that for obvious reasons.
if theyre particularly egregious then yes they are not included
but at the very least they are weighted differently (see the letter score next to each pollster)
It should be, but things are so polarized now that Biden probably won't hit 60% approval unless his administration blows past their COVID goals and nearly everyone is vaccinated by the end of the summer.
Encouraging numbers. But not surprirsed it's not as high as Obama's numbers. Some of Trump's camp are never going to change their minds...so right there, you're down ~30-40% (so...best case, ~60-70%). The political climate is so divided, too, that these numbers aren't too far off of the total vote count.How Popular Is Joe Biden?
Latest polls on President Joe Biden’s approval ratings
Still lower than Obamas 62% in the same time frame.
His approval rating is higher than the final vote count on election night, so I guess that's a win.
What about minimum wage? It's supposed to gradually increase and should be doubled (or more? I don't know how it works with inflation) by 2025. I assume that will have an effect on his approval and help Dems in 2024?
Meh, half the country opted to give Trump another 4 years after the catastrophe that was his presidency.
I won't give 'approval numbers' any mind.
I won't give 'approval numbers' any mind.
They still trying with Kamala. Almost solved sexism and racism in one fell swoop.
Obama's numbers were in part so high because he wasn't Bush. By 2008 even a lot of Republicans were sick of Bush, whereas unfortunately Trump still has the R base on lockdown.
Naw, it was more than just that. Obama was the best political figure since JFK. Master orator, huge amounts of charisma, and inspired optimism rather than the Bush-Cheney platform of fear and endless war. Biden presents competence and experience, but he doesn't electrify anyone the way Obama did in 2008.
Obama's charisma played a role, no doubt. But you also have to look at Trump's "charisma" compared to W. W was leaving in 2008 with a highly unpopular Iraqi War and the economy failing and he took heat from republicans and dems alike and had historically low approval. Meanwhile Trump left with 400k Americans dead from a Pandemic and the economy in even worse shape than W left but most of the GOP didn't hold him accountable for either and instead turned out in record numbers.
Probably near his ceiling considering how off the deep end into Fascism Conservatives have gone. I imagine there will also be a dip because of a slow economic recovery at some point.
I don't disagree, just saying you can't purely account for the Biden-Obama popularity differential on the basis of following up a bad president
Yeah, it may go up 1% - 2% or drop and return to this numbers in momente when popular measures are approved and signed into law. But aside of that, it will probably just see two spikes that reach the 60s (Next stimulus + announcement we have reached Herd Immunity and can begin to walk towards normality), and afterwards stay once more in the low - mid 50s range.
I can't think of any president before Trump that bragged about it either. The last 4 years fucked this country up on what the POTUS is actually supposed to be like...