Biden’s approval rating sets a new record…
…for lowness at this point in a president’s term, breaking a previous record set by Truman:
Former Presidents Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Gerald Ford had lower average approval ratings at some stage early in their presidencies, but Biden has caught up, and today’s average was the first for which he was below all presidents since Truman, a potentially troubling trend as Democrats ready for the midterm elections.
Right from the start, Trump was the victim of a fraudulent campaign to destroy him and brand him a traitor, an effort in which various government agencies cooperated. So his low approval rating was no mystery. What was causing Clinton’s and Ford’s, as well as Truman’s? The article doesn’t say, and it would take a lot of research to find out. Whatever the cause – and in Truman’s and Ford’s cases, it may have simply been that neither was elected to his first term – Biden has been far, far, far worse.
Ford is pretty obvious: He wasn’t elected at all — he was appointed when Agnew resigned in disgrace, then promoted when Watergate killed Nixon. So unlike most Veeps throughout history, he wasn’t even voted in as the #2.
Add to that he unfortunately got handed the results of Keynesian stupidity, with the first wave of “stagflation” (something Keynes said could not exist — high inflation AND high unemployment) as well as the initial gas price shocks of OPEC’s first money grabs. Also lines at the gas pumps as the effects of price fixing took hold, and shortages reigned supreme as they always do in response.
His economy got handed to Carter, who followed suit with more Keynesian idiocy, plus his own incompetent gaffes and wimp-based failures in Iran, as we got a continuation of stagflation, a second round of gas price shocks and resultant shortages.
Also, the general “malaise” induced by leftist promotion of Soviet “successes” (despite the fact that, IIRC, we sold them metric craptons of wheat at least twice in this time frame, because somehow they were unable to produce enough food, they were doing so remarkably well), added to the collapse of Vietnam, and the general result of American morale, self-esteem, and self-image being as low as it’s ever been.
Ford’s problems were obvious, and only partially his fault (he listened to very bad advisors). Add to that the depiction of him (a former football player), by the merdia, as a bumbler — remember Chevy Chase playing him on SNL’s first season.
It took that “stupid idiot”, Reagan, to right things, by calling Russia on their busted flush, and to stop throwing more good money after bad by “investing” in more government.
It would have been good if he’d also managed to shrink government as well as reduce regulations, but at least he didn’t increase regulation… Which let business do what it does naturally, which is grow the economy, instead of filling out still more paperwork.
What more and more conservatives are coming to realize (painfully) is that the destructive policies of this illegitimate regime (all the policies, without exception) are designed to destroy “traditional America” (“the worse the better”, Cloward-Piven, “fundamental transformation”, etc). Carter was certainly incompetent but he had no desire to wreak havoc upon the nation, whereas every painfully idiotic utterance from Biden, Garland, Mayorkas (the three worst, although the others are almost equally atrocious) proves, beyond any doubt, the deliberate and malign intent of these truly malicious and mendacious “public servants.”
Biden’s low approval rating is in spite of massive efforts by the legacy media to hide and excuse his failings.
The truth is that nobody really likes Biden. Sure, some people might lie and say they do, but they don’t really. It’s just that they dislike the opposition more. It’s teams sports politics.
Let’s face it, so far his presidency has been a complete unmitigated disaster. On the whole people seem angrier and less hopeful about the future than at any other time in my lifetime. He may be the worst president in perhaps a 100 years, and arguably in the bottom 3 or 4 overall.
The only people who may genuinely like what Biden has been doing are people who want to see the United States of America greatly reduced or outright destroyed. But even they probably don’t like Biden personally.
Which is only made more aggravating by them claiming they’re tougher on Biden than Trump. (Which we can all see isn’t even slightly true.)
Clinton is no mystery, he only got 42% of the vote. He only won because Ross Perot got 20% most of which would have gone to Bush.
DisGuested:
But Clinton’s average approval rating was nevertheless very high, and he won re-election fairly easily.
At Dover Air Base, checking his watch as 13 of his fellow citizens — for whom, thanks to his murderous obduracy, time has stopped — pass him by in caskets.
Their Commander-in-Chief. My President.
It seems an act of defilement to mention Biden and Truman in the same sentence.
He only won because Ross Perot got 20% most of which would have gone to Bush.
IIRC, contemporary survey research indicated Perot was drawing about equally off the other two. About 70% of the Perot vote would have had to be siphoned from Bush to account for his deficit vis a vis Clinton.
Add to that he unfortunately got handed the results of Keynesian stupidity, with the first wave of “stagflation” (something Keynes said could not exist — high inflation AND high unemployment)
Whether it was Keynesian stupidity or some other sort of stupidity, the perpetrators were Arthur Burns and the rest of the Federal Reserve Board. Burns was an economist with connections to Republican politicians and Richard Nixon’s choice for Chairman. He was nominated for a second term by Nixon in 1974.
“…the initial gas price shocks of OPEC’s first money grabs. Also lines at the gas pumps as the effects of price fixing took hold, and shortages reigned supreme as they always do in response.”
I was around back then. I lived it. It wasn’t Gerald Ford, that was Richard Nixon. All of the gas lines and shortages started in late 1973 when OPEC embargoed oil to the USA because of our support for Israel during the October 1973 Yom Kippur war. Plus, that goofy 55mph speed limit came into effect in early 74.
Remember, Nixon didn’t resign until August 74. Gerald Ford had barely two years in office before he campaigned for the 76 election. In the meantime, inflation & stagflation had only gotten worse. Also, South Vietnam collapsed in April 1975 because the Democrat controlled congress refused to support our ally. The coup-de-grass, in my opinion was when he pardoned Nixon.
(I voted for Ford because I knew, even after all of that, that Democrats were bad for the nation.)
Biden’s low approval ratings are due to a combination of factors, divisive rhetoric: “President Joe Biden suggested Thursday that Americans were purchasing guns like AR-15s for the sake of killing people.” harmful policies overseen by “A Cabinency Of Dunces” https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/26/victor-davis-hanson-a-cabinency-of-dunces/ and an obvious inability to handle the job.
Art Deco,
It most definitely is an act of defilement to mention Biden and Truman in the same sentence. Truman was a loyal American and straight talker. Biden is neither.
The endless articles about Slo Joe’s low polls (hey, I think it’s clever!) are a bit tiresome. We hear he’s down to his lowest point ever…in this or that poll…or in this or that average of polls…or at this specific point in his presidency….or compared to previous presidents…etc.
Let’s just take it as assumed that, unless something very dramatic happens, his overall approval will remain between about 35-42% in about 90% of all independent polls between now and election day. That it ‘plummets’ two points on a certain day in a certain poll or is one point lower than Trump’s four years ago, etc, etc…such minutiae is of little importance.
I have said it before, as low as the number is, the number of folks who still think he is OK is astonishing.
I truly wish someone would look at this with a critical eye. What might we learn?
Their Commander-in-Chief. My President.
Biden was back to his tiresome stage whispering at USNA’s graduation ceremony earlier today: “President Biden revived his frequently ridiculed stage whisper Friday while addressing the US Naval Academy’s Class of 2022, stooping over his microphone to remind them that ‘I’m your commander-in-chief.'”
https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/joe-biden-whispers-to-naval-academy-graduates/
I feel sorry for the middies having to listen to that and then having to accept their diplomas from the hands of the gaffemeister-in-chief. One hopes that at least he kept his nose out of the female graduates’ hair.
He also told another lie: “President Biden told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy Friday that he applied to the school in 1965 — but a quick check of his biography shows problems with the story. Biden said he applied to Annapolis with a letter from then-Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, but the year he cited — 1965 — is the same year he graduated from the University of Delaware. . . . Biden has a habit of seeking to relate to his audiences by sharing questionable anecdotes about his personal experiences — as well as making false or exaggerated claims.”
https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/joe-biden-says-he-applied-to-naval-academy-dates-dont-add-up/
Clinton is no mystery, he only got 42% of the vote.
I remember that only after having read DG’s comment.
Clinton ran a very moderate, even conservative campaign in ’92. When inaugurated, he had Democrat control of congress and the lot of them swung left with some aggression. The one factor I remember was that the campaign promised a big middle class tax cut, they passed a big tax increase instead. The federal budget made him do it, he claimed.
Since the topic of gun control and assault weapons bans is now du jour, I had to check. Yes, the Feinstein assault weapons ban was passed by congress on August 25, 1994, and signed into law by Clinton on September 13, 1994. The Dems got their butts handed to them in the election weeks later and Newt Gingrich became Speaker.
The Clintons were shell shocked after that election and Bill really turned his agenda around. I’m guessing Hillary had to grind her teeth throughout. I couldn’t say how quickly his approval ratings improved.
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I’m a little curious about Truman and don’t know anything about it. Although one obvious point was that well over a majority of citizens loved loved FDR. I’ll bet they considered Truman a chump by comparison.
I always say the big difference between Trump and Biden is Trump exaggerates, Biden simply lies.
Clinton ran as a moderate… and then spent the first couple years of his term trying to craft and pass HillaryCare; a whole bunch of people thought it was wrong for the First Lady to be drafting legislation, on top of the whole universal health care thing. Add in the perception on the right that Perot threw the election to Clinton and the whiff of scandal that never really left him, between Whitewater when he was Arkansas governor and a plethora of women who claimed to share his bed.
It probably helped that Rush was on syndicated TV during Clinton’s first term, and his radio show was popular enough to get him that show.
It’s not a surprise that the House went to the Republicans for the first time in about four decades in ’94.
There are 3 issues here. 1. biden is not able to function at all in his job. 2. The media refuses to tell the truth of his handicaps, 3. the politicians and people around are intent on the destruction of America.
At this point, I think it’s naive to believe that the pollsters are any more honest than the news media that buys their product or the politicians that pull the news media’s strings or the billionaire oligarchs who write checks to the politicians.
If they can lie about the polling numbers, they do lie.
If they are admitting Biden’s support is ultra-low, it’s even lower. What we don’t know is by how much.
DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST!!!!!!!!!
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