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Post by SK80 on Feb 5, 2022 5:03:14 GMT -8
Biden drags Democrats down www.willistonherald.com ^ | Feb 4, 2022 | by Byron York
Most of us see President Joe Biden’s falling job approval rating as a measure of his declining popularity. But for every candidate, Democrat or Republican, running for the House or Senate this year, Biden’s numbers mean political life or death. That is because the president’s job approval rating is an extraordinarily important factor in the upcoming midterm elections.
Biden’s is low and going lower. A recent Pew poll puts Biden at 41% approval, versus 56% disapproval. Those results are very close to the RealClearPolitics average of several polls, which has Biden at 41.4% approval and 54.7% disapproval.
If those results continue, they will be felt in November. “In our increasingly polarized and nationalized politics, the single most determinative factor in midterm outcomes is the president’s job approval,” writes RealClearPolitics’ Sean Trende. “With both the House and Senate very narrowly split between the two parties, entering the 2022 elections with a president whose job approval is at this level carries catastrophic implications for the Democrats.”
“Looking back more than 70 years, there hasn’t been a single president who substantially improved his job approval rating from late January/early February of a midterm election year to late October/early November,” writes elections analyst Nathan Gonzales. In fact, the opposite has usually happened. “In the last 18 midterm elections going back to Harry Truman in 1950, the average president’s job approval rating dropped eight points between this time of year and election day,” Gonzales notes.
Bottom line: Nothing is set in stone. But things are looking bad for Joe Biden and his party.
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Post by SK80 on Feb 5, 2022 5:09:01 GMT -8
And this tidbit from the far left Atlanta Journal Constitution.
AJC poll: Biden’s approval in Georgia takes a nosedive (Down-ticket struggles) AJC ^ | Jan 27, 2022 | By Greg Bluestein
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has fallen off a cliff in Georgia, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Thursday that showed just one-third of registered voters approve of the Democrat’s job performance. ...
The 62% of voters who disapprove of him include key elements of the coalition that helped elect him.
Only 5% of Democrats gave him an unfavorable review in the AJC’s May poll; in this poll the number rose to 21%. His support among independents fell sharply, too. But the contrast was particularly sharp in the most powerful constituency in the state Democratic Party.
In May, only about 8% of Black voters disapproved of Biden’s performance. That number had more than quadrupled in the AJC’s latest poll, which found disapproval among Black Georgians at 36%.
That’s a distressing sign for Democrats, whose struggles go beyond Biden.
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Post by MDDad on Feb 5, 2022 9:16:02 GMT -8
Articles like the two above seem to ignore one important fact: Whereas casting votes for a political election always used to be a personal activity, in 2020 it became a technical one. The Democratic Party earned its Masters Degree in how to manipulate elections and commit fraud two years ago. There's no reason to believe they won't have refined and perfected those skills by this November, and Biden's approval ratings may have little impact on the results when another unprecedented number of ballots are "cast" and counted.
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Post by duke on Feb 5, 2022 10:19:15 GMT -8
I'm reminded of the Clinton Presidency, where whenever he'd have a political crisis, he'd go and bomb Libya or other countries to switch the focus. I am concerned that the Biden Administration would go to war with Russia to try to gain Patriotism support. We all remember Bush's numbers exploded in a positive way after 9/11. Many feel that the Left took advantage of the Covid Pandemic to gain an advantage in the 2020 election, and are still trying to keep the focus on Covid into the next election cycle.
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Post by billb on Feb 5, 2022 11:59:48 GMT -8
That reminds me of 1984, the movie / book. You need that war.
In a dystopian 1984, Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in the totalitarian superstate of Oceania (AT WAR WITH Eurasia) under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. Smith resides in London, the capital city of the territory of Airstrip One, formerly England. Winston works in a small office cubicle at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history in accordance with the dictates of the Party and its supreme leader, Big Brother. Haunted by painful memories and restless desires, Winston keeps a secret diary of his private thoughts, thus creating evidence of his thoughtcrime. However, he tries to do it undercover of the telescreens, to maintain his safety.
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Post by ProfessorFate on Feb 5, 2022 23:25:19 GMT -8
Articles like the two above seem to ignore one important fact: Whereas casting votes for a political election always used to be a personal activity, in 2020 it became a technical one. The Democratic Party earned its Masters Degree in how to manipulate elections and commit fraud two years ago. There's no reason to believe they won't have refined and perfected those skills by this November, and Biden's approval ratings may have little impact on the results when another unprecedented number of ballots are "cast" and counted. On the other side of the coin: 1. As a result of some shady things that occurred in 2020, this election will be watched like a hawk everywhere. Some of those shady dealings were dismissed by the left, and/or by the courts, on the grounds that although certain acts were shady, "but it probably wasn't enough to change the result." Those things will be watched more carefully, and in some states, I understand, poll watchers will have more protections. I don't think we'll see them kicked out of the room, so they can't watch the shenanigans going on (like in Georgia after hours). Or kicked out and the windows boarded up with poster board and pizza boxes (like in Michigan). 2. Some of the court cases, that the left loves to remind us about, were dismissed without even looking at the evidence, because they were not filed in a timely manner (Wisconsin, for example). Some of those law suits claimed that the rules for the election were changed by entities that lacked the authority to do so (such as in Pennsylvania). Those law suits were dismissed by the courts who claimed that the proper time to litigate those disputes, was BEFORE election day, not after. 3. Besides Biden's nosedive, and his obvious mental impairments, Trump is not on the ballot in 2022 (though the left will try to make it about him, like they tried unsuccessfully to do in the 2021 elections). Many 2020 Democrat voters will stay home, since they have no one they hate, and no one they like, in the White House. So, the lessons learned from #1 and #2 above, have hopefully been remedied by new laws, and early legal challenges to improper election law changes, and to fraudulent drop box and ballot harvesting practices. That, plus the Biden nosedive will lead to disaster for the Democrat Party. Also...in 2020, the polls showed (perhaps untruthfully) Biden ahead as the election approached. So, they hoped a Biden win wouldn't raise any eyebrows, other than Trump voters' eyebrows. That is going to be next to impossible to pull off this time, if the Republicans continue to lead in the generic Congressional polls. And, assuming that the Dems might want to cheat again, they might just decide that the potential gain doesn't justify the risk.
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Post by MDDad on Feb 6, 2022 7:29:17 GMT -8
Trump is not on the ballot in 2022 (though the left will try to make it about him, like they tried unsuccessfully to do in the 2021 elections). I agree that Trump is not on the ballot in 2022, but my greatest political fear is that he will be in 2024, and that may well hand the Democrats another four years in the White House. I think there are millions and millions of Democratic and independent voters who would vote for a Ron DeSantis because of their disapproval of Biden. But many of those same voters would rather vote for Joe Stalin than Donald Trump, and they will vote Democrat or stay home in 2024 because of their personal dislike of Trump. That's one of the GOP's problems -- they're always planning on fighting the last war they lost. Democrats will have refined and perfected their cheating methods in 2022 and 2024, and will have added some unforeseen new ones, while Republicans continue to try and find a cure for last year's flu and get surprised when that cure doesn't work this time. The GOP never looks or plans ahead anticipating the next generation of fraud, and this inability may well cost them again.
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Post by ProfessorFate on Feb 7, 2022 2:30:57 GMT -8
Trump is not on the ballot in 2022 (though the left will try to make it about him, like they tried unsuccessfully to do in the 2021 elections). I agree that Trump is not on the ballot in 2022, but my greatest political fear is that he will be in 2024, and that may well hand the Democrats another four years in the White House. I think there are millions and millions of Democratic and independent voters who would vote for a Ron DeSantis because of their disapproval of Biden. But many of those same voters would rather vote for Joe Stalin than Donald Trump, and they will vote Democrat or stay home in 2024 because of their personal dislike of Trump. I agree 100%. Right now DeSantis is my choice. If we are looking at a sure win in 2024, I'd be tempted to vote for Trump in the primary, just to really piss off the left. But I agree DeSantis has a better chance of winning the general election. But even that could be problematic, if Trump causes serious dissension in the GOP. And then there is always the possibility of Trump as a 3rd party candidate, God forbid. That just makes this 2022 election even more important, since the state delegations in the House of Representatives would determine the winner. We need to clobber the Dems big time, but if the GOP and the 3rd party split the red states, even that may not be enough. Would a Trump/DeSantis ticket be the answer. DeSantis/Trump would be better, but I doubt Trump would go for that. Our best bet is to control both the House and the Senate, so if, God forbid, a Dem wins the 2024 presidential election, he (or she) would be impotent/barren.
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Post by SK80 on Feb 8, 2022 7:30:41 GMT -8
Appears the Dimwits are watching the political winds blow, I think the Rams game really exposed the insanity and hypocrisy with the faux mandates and Stacey Abrams just put in knife in the mask mandates.
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Post by SK80 on Feb 16, 2022 6:08:06 GMT -8
If this is any indication, and all polling shows it is to date, come November 2022 it should be a bloodbath. Here, even in far left Progressive SF, the Liberals supported the recall of of their own out of control leftists... it wasn't even close the vote, nearly 80% voted to oust these board members.
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Post by billb on Feb 16, 2022 10:17:32 GMT -8
If there is hope in society over the long term, it is the school boards. There is hope.
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Post by SK80 on Feb 22, 2022 7:11:39 GMT -8
Here Bloomberg uses the SF School Board recalls as a seismic metric.... Bloomberg: Democrats headed for 'wipeout' in November without immediate course correction
Tue, February 22, 2022, 5:19 AM Michael Bloomberg American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City
Michael Bloomberg writes in a new op-ed that he is "deeply concerned" the Democratic Party is "headed for a wipeout in November, up and down the ballot."
The former New York City mayor and Democratic presidential candidate points to the recent recall of three school board members in San Francisco while making his argument in Bloomberg News.
"Coming from America's most liberal city, those results should translate into a 7 to 8 on the Richter scale, because the three main factors that drove the recall are not unique to the Bay Area," Bloomberg writes.
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Post by billb on Feb 23, 2022 0:21:14 GMT -8
But what if there is a big war in the Ukraine, kind of like 1984 Oceana vs Eurasia... or whatever that was. Personally, I wouldn't support Biden more if we got in a war with Russia.
The Democrat policies suck. Their war will suck. And to think that they were saying Trump would push the button.
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Post by SK80 on Feb 26, 2022 7:50:40 GMT -8
I dont think the Ukranian Krisis can save the NeoLibs now......
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Post by SK80 on Apr 10, 2022 5:36:18 GMT -8
Well if this is any indication..... 2022 and then some...!
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