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[W:199] What Americans Think about President Biden

I approve of him.

Not strongly, unless comparing him to Trump.
 
No, we aren't--a state of affairs that both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for ... the Democrats for selecting a man like Biden as their standard bearer, and the Republicans for selecting a man like Trump as theirs.
The difference however is policies and Trump results whether you like them or not. We were indeed safer and stronger but hate. Lies, propaganda And Trump's personality prevailed
 
The difference however is policies and Trump results whether you like them or not. We were indeed safer and stronger but hate. Lies, propaganda And Trump's personality prevailed
“Personality”—you keep using that word. I think in this case it does not mean what you think it means.
 
And there goes last week's improvement, and then some.

Biden's past week:

  • Strong Approval 21% (-2)
  • Strong Disapproval 47%
  • Total Approval 41% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 58% (+2)
Biden's past month:

  • Strong Approval 22%
  • Strong Disapproval 47%
  • Total Approval 41%
  • Total Disapproval 57%
Biden's time in office:

  • Strong Approval 26%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Trump's past week:

  • Strong Approval 32%
  • Strong Disapproval 41% (+1)
  • Total Approval 49%
  • Total Disapproval 50%
Trump's past month:

  • Strong Approval 31%
  • Strong Disapproval 41% (-1)
  • Total Approval 48% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 51% (-1)
Trump's time in office:

  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53% (-1)
Obama's past week:

  • Strong Approval 30% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 42%
  • Total Approval 48% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 51% (-1)
Obama's past month:

  • Strong Approval 29% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 42%
  • Total Approval 47% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 52% (-1)
Obama's time in office:

  • Strong Approval 32%
  • Strong Disapproval 36% (+1)
  • Total Approval 51%
  • Total Disapproval 48%
 
And some real improvement this week! Let's see if he can keep it. And I just noticed, at this point the average of all the polls since Biden took office are actually worse than Trump's, if only a little (4% less in the Strong Approval category).

Biden's past week:
  • Strong Approval 23% (+2)
  • Strong Disapproval 45% (-2)
  • Total Approval 43% (+2)
  • Total Disapproval 55% (-3)
Biden's past month:
  • Strong Approval 22%
  • Strong Disapproval 47%
  • Total Approval 42% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 57%
Biden's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 26%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Trump's past week:
  • Strong Approval 33% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 49%
  • Total Disapproval 50%
Trump's past month:
  • Strong Approval 32% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 48%
  • Total Disapproval 51%
Trump's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Obama's past week:
  • Strong Approval 29% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 41% (-1)
  • Total Approval 47% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 52% (+1)
Obama's past month:
  • Strong Approval 30% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 42%
  • Total Approval 48% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Obama's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 31% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 36%
  • Total Approval 51%
  • Total Disapproval 48%
 
Not the usual job approval numbers, but this poll focuses on Biden so here it is:

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 56% of Likely U.S. Voters think, compared to most recent presidents, Biden is a weaker commander in chief for the military. Only 24% now believe Biden is a stronger commander in chief than most recent presidents. Seventeen percent (17%) say Biden is about the same as most recent presidents as a military leader. These findings are practically unchanged since November. Fifteen percent (15%) of voters surveyed are current or former members of the U.S. military, and 64% of those with military experience say Biden is a weaker commander in chief. In June 2018, 40% of voters, and a majority of those with military experience, said President Donald Trump was a stronger commander-in-chief for the military than most recent presidents.
 
And there goes most of last week's gains:

Biden's past week:
  • Strong Approval 22% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 48% (+3)
  • Total Approval 42% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 57% (+2)
Biden's past month:
  • Strong Approval 22%
  • Strong Disapproval 47%
  • Total Approval 42%
  • Total Disapproval 57%
Biden's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 26%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 45% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Trump's past week:
  • Strong Approval 33%
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 48% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 51% (+1)
Trump's past month:
  • Strong Approval 33% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 49% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 50% (-1)
Trump's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Obama's past week:
  • Strong Approval 30% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 47%
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Obama's past month:
  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 41% (-1)
  • Total Approval 47% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Obama's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 31%
  • Strong Disapproval 36%
  • Total Approval 51%
  • Total Disapproval 48%
 
And for the official monthly recap:

The president earned a monthly job approval of 42% in April, up one point from March. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapproved of his job performance in April, down one point from March. Donald Trump’s monthly approval ran from a high of 51% in February 2017, his first full month in the White House, to a low of 42% in August 2017. In December 2020, his final full month in office, Trump earned a monthly job approval of 47%. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapproved.
Note this means that Biden actually succeeded in beating Trump's lowest monthly approval rating--quite a feat, considering Trump.
 
And ... Biden gets back what he lost last week.

Biden's past week:
  • Strong Approval 24% (+2)
  • Strong Disapproval 45% (-3)
  • Total Approval 43% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 55% (-2)
Biden's past month:
  • Strong Approval 23% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 47%
  • Total Approval 42%
  • Total Disapproval 56% (-1)
Biden's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 26%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 45%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Trump's past week:
  • Strong Approval 33%
  • Strong Disapproval 40% (-1)
  • Total Approval 49% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 50% (-1)
Trump's past month:
  • Strong Approval 33%
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 49%
  • Total Disapproval 50%
Trump's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Obama's past week:
  • Strong Approval 29% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 39% (-2)
  • Total Approval 47%
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Obama's past month:
  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 47%
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Obama's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 31%
  • Strong Disapproval 36%
  • Total Approval 51%
  • Total Disapproval 48%
 
With all respect, 2/3 of the American populace could not pass a simple citizenship test. (It's sadly true) That's beyond ignorant.
No wonder we're stuck with dumb-ass politicians. Any Polls that they take has no meaning, simply because most of them don't-know-shit.

You need to combine terrible ignorance with the enormous propaganda machine and political operation that takes advantage of it. If it were only ignorance, it wouldn't be as dangerous.

Polls mean a lot, because as much as the opinions are terrible, they do have the power of the vote.
 
And there goes Biden's gains last week again.

Biden's past week:

  • Strong Approval 20% (-4)
  • Strong Disapproval 46% (+1)
  • Total Approval 41% (-2)
  • Total Disapproval 57% (+2)
Biden's past month:

  • Strong Approval 22% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 46% (-1)
  • Total Approval 42%
  • Total Disapproval 56%
Biden's time in office:

  • Strong Approval 26%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 45%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Trump's past week:

  • Strong Approval 33%
  • Strong Disapproval 39% (-1)
  • Total Approval 48% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 50%
Trump's past month:

  • Strong Approval 33%
  • Strong Disapproval 40% (-1)
  • Total Approval 49%
  • Total Disapproval 50%
Trump's time in office:

  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Obama's past week:

  • Strong Approval 28% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 41% (+2)
  • Total Approval 47%
  • Total Disapproval 53% (+1)
Obama's past month:

  • Strong Approval 29% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 40% (-1)
  • Total Approval 47%
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Obama's time in office:

  • Strong Approval 31%
  • Strong Disapproval 36%
  • Total Approval 51%
  • Total Disapproval 48%
 
Biden hasn't exactly been impressing voters with his presence on the world stage.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 53% of Likely U.S. voters believe most world leaders see President Biden as weaker than former President Donald Trump. Thirty-three percent (33%) feel Biden is stronger than Trump in the eyes of most world leaders. There is a wide partisan divide on this question. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats think most world leaders see President Biden as stronger than Trump, but 78% of Republicans think those leaders see him as weaker. Among voters not affiliated with either major political party, 55% believe world leaders see Biden as weaker and 28% think those leaders see him as stronger than Trump. These findings are not unprecedented. In November 2017, 50% of voters believed world leaders viewed Trump as weaker than former President Barack Obama, and the partisan divisions were reversed.
 
And a slight recovery.

Biden's past week:
  • Strong Approval 21% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 46%
  • Total Approval 42% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 56% (-1)
Biden's past month:
  • Strong Approval 22%
  • Strong Disapproval 46%
  • Total Approval 42%
  • Total Disapproval 56%
Biden's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 26%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 45%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Trump's past week:
  • Strong Approval 33%
  • Strong Disapproval 40% (+1)
  • Total Approval 48%
  • Total Disapproval 51% (+1)
Trump's past month:
  • Strong Approval 33%
  • Strong Disapproval 40%
  • Total Approval 48% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 50%
Trump's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 43% (-1)
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Obama's past week:
  • Strong Approval 27% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 46% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Obama's past month:
  • Strong Approval 29%
  • Strong Disapproval 41% (+1)
  • Total Approval 47%
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Obama's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 31%
  • Strong Disapproval 36%
  • Total Approval 51%
  • Total Disapproval 48%
 
And ... treading water, while being underwater.

Biden's past week:
  • Strong Approval 21%
  • Strong Disapproval 47% (+1)
  • Total Approval 42%
  • Total Disapproval 56%
Biden's past month:
  • Strong Approval 21% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 46%
  • Total Approval 42%
  • Total Disapproval 56%
Biden's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 26%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 45%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Trump's past week:
  • Strong Approval 35% (+2)
  • Strong Disapproval 42% (+2)
  • Total Approval 49% (+1)
  • Total Disapproval 50% (-1)
Trump's past month:
  • Strong Approval 34% (+1)
  • Strong Disapproval 40%
  • Total Approval 48%
  • Total Disapproval 50%
Trump's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 43%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 53%
Obama's past week:
  • Strong Approval 26% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 43% (+2)
  • Total Approval 45% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 54% (+1)
Obama's past month:
  • Strong Approval 28% (-1)
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 46% (-1)
  • Total Disapproval 53% (+1)
Obama's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 31%
  • Strong Disapproval 36%
  • Total Approval 51%
  • Total Disapproval 48%
 
Biden hasn't exactly been impressing voters with his presence on the world stage.

Neither has Rasmussen...

"Rasmussen Reports /ˈræsˌmʌsən/[4] is an American conservative polling company founded in 2003.[5][6] The company engages in political commentary and the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Rasmussen Reports conducts nightly tracking, at national and state levels, of elections, politics, current events, consumer confidence, business topics, and the United States president's job approval ratings.

For the 2020 United States presidential election, Rasmussen Reports' final White House Watch survey of likely U.S. voters showed Democrat Joe Biden with a 1% lead over Republican Donald Trump, stating that "President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are in a near tie."[7] Ultimately, Biden won the election by 4.5 percentage points. After Trump lost the election, he and his allies made false and disproven claims of fraud and attempted to overturn the results, with Rasmussen itself suggesting that Vice President Mike Pence should overturn the election results.[8][9]

In 2018, Rasmussen Reports predicted that Republicans would win the generic ballot by 1 percentage point while the actual election results had Democrats winning by nearly 9 percentage points..."
 
Yeah, but the first category, for example, "Biden last week", the numbers add up to 168%. Were people allowed to tick multiple boxes?
I go by RCP which averages out all the latest polls. On Biden’s overall job approval, There’s also a graph if you scroll down to where you can see Biden’s day to day approval/disapproval for the last year.


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html

Here is Biden on the economy. Approval/disapproval

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_biden_job_approval_economy-7321.html

No poll adds up to 100% as usually there are a lot of those polled in the undecided or not sure column.
 
Meanwhile, in FiveThirtyEight's rankings, Rasmussen has gone from a C+ to a B.

That is good, I should have checked the rating there before I posted.

What is your point? Biden is POTUS because Jim Clyburn, a fairly moderate and very pragmatic politician, rescued
Biden's candidacy to increase the chances democrats could beat an incumbent, always a challenge.

They say a giraffe is a horse designed by a committee. Biden was a compromise. What do you think would be a
better alternative, considering G.O.P. candidates lost the presidential election popular vote in 1992, 1996. 2000,
2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020, but the party's two candidates who got into the white house via the electoral college vote,
nominated five consecutivr, white Roman Catholic Supreme Court Justices and Trump nominated 54 of 179 total appeals
court judges, none of them black.

Why doesn't all that, satisfy? Consider how angry G.O.P. supporters have worked themselves up to, despite getting so much
political influence out of so few popular votes over the last 30 years? Sure, it's possible to push it a little further, but is it even
governable, now? IOW, consider adopting a more reasonable approach. The G.O.P. should be asking supporters why they are
so angry, why they want to take over government by undemocratic means... such as, at gunpoint, when the history of the
last 30 years is the demonstrated ability to achieve partial control as an aggressive minority. There certainly is no plan to increase
the appeal of the party, to make the tent bigger, to be more inclusive, rather, the vibe seems to be, "we don't intend to be
a representative government political party in the near term. CPAC and Fox drooling over their Hungarian "visit" supports my
observation, and all the gun rights and abortion access rollback is "in your face" messaging.

Maybe 21 open caskets over the coming week is something for these devastated families to consider resorting to!
 
What I hear too much of the last ten years is a lot of very well off straight white Christian conservatives having tantrums and acting like victims.
And it's getting really really old...comfirms the old adage

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."​


Now the pallette of colors, nationalities and demographics that make up our American society is changing once again, and the ones who are doing most of the damage to our democracy
grew up enjoying its benefits. Talk about biting the hand that fed them, but their most obvious evil is that they portray themselves as somehow marginalized, which is an incredible sleight of
hand from a group of people who are among the top five and top one percent and all the way to the zenith above.

It's amazing how billionaires and straight white conservative politicians can concoct a narrative that paints themselves as victims in America.
 
What I hear too much of the last ten years is a lot of very well off straight white Christian conservatives having tantrums and acting like victims.
And it's getting really really old...comfirms the old adage

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."​


Now the pallette of colors, nationalities and demographics that make up our American society is changing once again, and the ones who are doing most of the damage to our democracy
grew up enjoying its benefits. Talk about biting the hand that fed them, but their most obvious evil is that they portray themselves as somehow marginalized, which is an incredible sleight of
hand from a group of people who are among the top five and top one percent and all the way to the zenith above.

It's amazing how billionaires and straight white conservative politicians can concoct a narrative that paints themselves as victims in America.

People irresistibly attracted to grifters as if they were God-like are a creepily huge wedge of our total population.
A vast "resource" of marks, cucks, and cultists with "kick me" birthmarks on their back sides, ripe for the harvest by
the Trumps, Musks, and Murdochs. The marks are victims, but not owing to their own rationale.


 
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People irresistibly attracted to grifters as if they were God-like are a creepily huge wedge of our total population.
A vast "resource" of marks, cucks, and cultists with "kick me" birthmarks on their back sides, ripe for the harvest by
the Trumps, Musks, and Murdochs. The marks are victims, but not owing to their own rationale.




All he has to do is offer an electric car that your typical hourly wage worker can afford to buy.
He has had that opportunity since 2011...that's over a DECADE and yet he still keeps rolling out cars that are more and more expensive, more out of reach of the masses, blingey toys that do tricks, try to drive themselves, outdo a Ferrari on the dragstrip and cling to a proprietary charging network.

If Tesla cars were phones, they would only be able to call other Tesla phones, and they would cost way more than double what every other phone costs.
It's absolutely incredible that these Tesla phones can access extraterrestrial networks and bounce calls off the Moon, or do quantum calculations to cure cancer when they are idle, but if you just want a phone that
can call into work or check email, you're going to pay what you'd pay for a marine capable satellite phone base station, even though you can't afford a boat.

It's incredible how quickly billionaires morph into fascists when talk of unions or fair taxation crops up.
 
That is good, I should have checked the rating there before I posted.

What is your point?
My point is that yes, you can point to election polls where Rasmussen was spectacularly wrong. Likewise, I can point to election polls where Rasmussen was spectacularly right. But what neither of us can do is look at all the polls. FiveThirtyEight can and does. While I have a problem with one aspect of how they produce their ranking (the larger a pollster's record the less I think the pollster's methodology should count), so far as I know they are the only ones that look at all the polls, and as long as I've been aware of them, they've given Rasmussen a better than passing grade that has only gotten better over that time.

For the rest of your post, other than January 6th, the political mass violence I'm aware of has been caused by the Left. All the riots of 2020 are a fine example. And even January 6th wasn't all that violent.
 
And Biden's approval for the past month:

The president earned a monthly job approval of 42% in May, unchanged from April. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapproved of his job performance in May, also unchanged from April. Donald Trump’s monthly approval ran from a high of 51% in February 2017, his first full month in the White House, to a low of 42% in August 2017. In December 2020, his final full month in office, Trump earned a monthly job approval of 47%. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapproved.
 
You do realize rasmussen is dismissed as an "outlier" more often than not because they skew so heavily republican.
Yet they got the 2016 election correct in the end. So, are the pollsters actually the outlier, and Rasmussen is accurate? It's one of chicken and the egg scenarios.
 
So here's the second of my threads on Rasmussen polls (the first is What Americans Think about Politics, with the background of where these are coming from).

Rasmussen is, so far as I know, the only polling company that still polls on the president's job approval every weekday (except holidays). Rasmussen actually uses a three-day rolling average, with 500 Likely Voters polled daily--so each day's number is from 1,500 Likely Voters over the last three days. Still, every day is a bit too fluid for me, I prefer longer periods. So here's Biden's average numbers over the past week, month, and since he was elected. Then I toss in Trump's and Obama's numbers from the same point in their own presidencies, for comparison.

Biden's past week:
  • Strong Approval 21%
  • Strong Disapproval 48%
  • Total Approval 41%
  • Total Disapproval 58%
Biden's past month:
  • Strong Approval 22%
  • Strong Disapproval 47%
  • Total Approval 42%
  • Total Disapproval 57%
Biden's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 27%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Trump's past week:
  • Strong Approval 31%
  • Strong Disapproval 42%
  • Total Approval 47%
  • Total Disapproval 52%
Trump's past month:
  • Strong Approval 32%
  • Strong Disapproval 42%
  • Total Approval 47%
  • Total Disapproval 51%
Trump's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 30%
  • Strong Disapproval 44%
  • Total Approval 46%
  • Total Disapproval 54%
Obama's past week:
  • Strong Approval 25%
  • Strong Disapproval 42%
  • Total Approval 45%
  • Total Disapproval 54%
Obama's past month:
  • Strong Approval 25%
  • Strong Disapproval 41%
  • Total Approval 45%
  • Total Disapproval 54%
Obama's time in office:
  • Strong Approval 32%
  • Strong Disapproval 35%
  • Total Approval 52%
  • Total Disapproval 47%
Sounds like the talking heads just keep covering for democrats.
 
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