The Media Is All Wrong About Biden’s
Poor Polling
Politico,
by
Jack Shafer
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
12/21/2023 5:27:14 PM
More flustered than Elmer Fudd in the closing seconds of a Looney Tunes episode, President Joe Biden summoned his inner circle late last month to explain why his poll numbers were so dismal — and to ask them what they were doing to boost them. The scene, captured by the Washington Post’s Tyler Pager and printed as the lead story in the paper’s Monday edition (“Biden Upset By His Low Polling,” Dec. 18), has Biden bellyaching that his economic successes have failed to move the dial, and notes that the president has been complaining about this for some time.
The great ignominy of Biden’s sagging popularity, writes Pager, is that
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
philsner 12/21/2023 5:31:39 PM (No. 1621952)
Why, after cheating to win an election, not to mention your disastrous policies, would you think your popularity would move the needle off zero?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/21/2023 5:46:17 PM (No. 1621955)
Politico....living up to the name, pumping more leftist swill.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/21/2023 6:06:31 PM (No. 1621959)
At one time the electorate routinely rejected Senators for President. Kennedy in 1960 was one of the few who ever won. Most are political blowhards with an overinflated ego, which fits both Biden and Obamboozler to a 'T'. He should never have stepped foot in the Oval Office to start with.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
thefield 12/21/2023 6:15:29 PM (No. 1621965)
Give the man a break. He has kamala checking the actuary table every morning.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/21/2023 6:15:55 PM (No. 1621966)
Good lord, these people live in a bubble! On Day One he had nearly half the country outraged withe the obvious fraudulent election. Covid, a dangerous disease, certainly, but nothing so dire as fantasized by the media, was used and abused to attack the entire productive workforce. Their "vaccine" kills more people than Covid does! And they don't "recommend" the vaccine, they force it down our throats! He shuts down economic opportunity, then further abuses us with absurd proposals involving green energy that only ends up displaying how fraudulent that is!
He now has over half the country wishing he would just drop dead, along with his VP, AG, and the twisted web of spies that used to hide in the shadows. He promotes society-destroying philosophies such as transgender ism, DEI, CRT, and pornogrsphy for k-12!
And he wonders why he isn't LOVED!!!?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
curious1 12/21/2023 6:20:09 PM (No. 1621969)
#3, and Kennedy's daddy reportedly had to pay serious money to cheat and have it appear his son won the election. So maybe not even then as an exception did the American people want a senator to be president.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/21/2023 6:42:07 PM (No. 1621977)
The illegal team representing the Potatus (I stole this from another poster, love it, beats vegetable) knows their faux leader has never been popular. Most dems went into 2020 knowing PDT was going to be reelected. When the steal happened, they couldn't rejoice because they knew it was stolen, and they were stuck with a poseur they couldn't stand. It's a big reason the fauxauguration was pretended to have a low invited attendance because of the faux insurrection. No one was excited about this clown becoming president. I don't believe his polls have ever been high; he didn't get 81 million votes either. The potato is more fake than obama, and that's a lot of fake.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Scribelus 12/21/2023 6:59:27 PM (No. 1621988)
Ah yes. ‘Politico’, just another inept communist tool, created by mesolithic politicians.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mofongo 12/21/2023 7:29:53 PM (No. 1621996)
Shafer is just too smart to believe that Biden ever beat Trump.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/21/2023 9:01:32 PM (No. 1622025)
Maybe Politico should change its name to Astair-ico cause they dance around the subject so well, or we need was Ginger Rogers and we would have a blockbuster song and dance.
Pathetic essay, that was as far from journalism as liver to a bone-in-ribeye.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/21/2023 9:01:40 PM (No. 1622026)
His staffers have nothing to lose by telling him the truth; or at least using some honest terms like "mistrust" and "lying sack" of slush.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/22/2023 3:41:33 AM (No. 1622085)
BS from the lying propaganda media.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 12/22/2023 6:12:16 AM (No. 1622118)
Inflation may be down but that is a measure of the current rate of cost increases. The simple matter is that costs are 20+% HIGHER, MUCH higher on some things, than when Biden took office and it is ALL due to his deficit spending policies. "Kitchen table" issues like this are critical to voters and they are reminded about the pain every time they buy groceries, fill their gas tank, pay their mortgage, or try to buy something on credit.
Secondarily, Biden has trumpeted his "All In" environmental policies. Even for those who believe the Global Warming fallacies, there is growing awareness that the "solutions" put forth WILL NOT WORK. For the believers, this creates a great anxiety, a serious danger highlighted by the administration and an awareness that the solution policies CANNOT WORK. The Kool Aid drinkers want someone else with better solutions. Of course Conservatives reject the whole premise anyway but loss of faith is undermining Biden's support among the dem base. THIS is why a generic dem, a high priest with "workable" environmental solutions, does better in polling.
This is also a reason it is dangerous to hype a false fear too strongly. People expect the fear to be addressed and resolved. If there is really nothing to be "fixed" or the "fix" has nothing to do with the real cause, there will be NO perceivable progress. After a community all tries the "Snake Oil" and realize they are no healthier than they were to begin with, they tar and feather the Snake Oil salesman.
The problem with Biden is that he is a dem and panders to the troublesome progressive dem base who support wrongheaded and damaging policies. The progressives are too bull headed to accept that their ideas are wrong and the policies they want are a disaster. Uncle Joe gave them the candy they all demanded and now their teeth are rotting out and they are bemoaning their trips to the dentist to have their cavities filled.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/22/2023 10:21:47 AM (No. 1622257)
Shafer yells several times that Biden defeated Trump. He did not, having been cheated into office by a Democrat Party that is wholly devoted to lying, cheating, and stealing. Those things used to get people and organizations expelled from decent society and ostracized, if not put in jail. Politico, a junior version of the WaPo, is good for nothing, and should disappear from from the national conversation. We don't like people who yell. And lie.
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