The media had been hyping the possibility of Joe Biden’s return just weeks before. The president’s languishing poll numbers had seen a slight spike in a poll or two, so the claim wasn’t totally baseless. Instead, the cherry-picking of political partisans was responsible, as I pointed out in my reply at the time.
But while the polling over the last few weeks has shown Biden stagnating, the latest national survey from Selzer is an absolute house of horrors — and not just for him.
Far short of the 40~ percent Biden has been garnering, the president’s approval stands at just 34 percent (click here for the internals of the poll).
(Selzer poll – national) Do you approve/disapprove of the job Biden is doing?
Overall: 34/52
GOP: 6/89
Dems: 70/13
Indie: 31/52
Men: 33/56
Women: 36/48
Below 35 years old: 27/51
Plus 65
White: 31/59
Non-white: 40/39
Women from the suburbs: 52/31
Evangelical: 26/66
Midwesterners: 32/56— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) March 23, 2022
Let’s not get too deep into details before we start to discuss the issues. This demographic has always had a net positive opinion of Joe Biden in every poll (aside form black Americans). Hispanics continually show lower approval than suburban women, a phrase that typically translates to being white, liberal, college-educated, and borderline alcoholic (I’m only half-joking).
Perhaps that’s a result of so many liberal wine moms being out of touch with the hardships normal Americans face? Whatever it is, I think I can speak for everyone else in that we’d like them to stop taking the rest of us down with them. Don’t get me wrong, there are conservative suburban women, but the sheer reliability of that demographic for Joe Biden is disconcerting.
However, some parts of the Selzer Poll are not good for Democrats. Only 27 percent of those polled said the schools follow the right or incorrect track when it came to teaching children. 64% said it was the wrong track. That “war on parents” the left is waging is not going to pay political dividends. A further 68 percent of respondents disapprove that college admissions should be made based on race.
However, when it comes to Biden’s approval, there are worse splits than his topline. Only 37 percent approve of how he’s handling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (an issue the White House once thought would keep him afloat). His approval rating for the economy is a dismal 31%. These numbers don’t stop at him. Democrat candidates for office in the coming mid-terms will carry the weight of Biden’s failures. That’s how it always works with the party in power, and there’s no reason at all to think history will be defied this go around.
Finally, lest anyone think I’m cherry-picking myself in highlighting this particular poll, Biden also dropped to his lowest point yet in Reuter’s presidential approval poll on Wednesday. For the White House, and for the Democrat Party, the news is all bad. There is no comeback and there isn’t going to be one.
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