Biden tanks in 7 Democratic swing districts as poll says $3.5T spending too big President Biden’s approval numbers have taken a hit in seven Democrat-controlled swing districts, according to a new poll commissioned by conservative advocacy group American Action Network released on Tuesday. The survey — conducted by Remington Research Group — showed the president underwater by an average of 7 percentage points on the economy and 9 percent on foreign policy in the areas polled, which include California’s 10th Congressional District, Florida’s 7th Congressional District, Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, Michigan’s 8th and 11th Congressional Districts, Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District and Washington’s 8th Congressional District. The surveys found that Biden and the Democrats’ plan to move forward with a $3.5 trillion social spending could prove to be a liability for the party’s members that serve in the battleground districts, with an average of just 36 percent approving on average to the 55 percent that said they disapprove of the proposal. https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/biden...districts-as-poll-says-3-5t-spending-too-big/
BRET STEPHENS: Can Biden save his presidency? https://www.wral.com/can-biden-save-his-presidency/19863386/ EDITOR'S NOTE: Bret Stephens is a New York Times columnist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary at The Wall Street Journal in 2013 and was previously editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post. This Sept. 11, a diminished president will preside over a diminished nation. We are a country that could not keep a demagogue from the White House; could not stop an insurrectionist mob from storming the Capitol; could not win (or at least avoid losing) a war against a morally and technologically retrograde enemy; cannot conquer a disease for which there are safe and effective vaccines; and cannot bring itself to trust the government, the news media, the scientific establishment, the police or any other institution meant to operate for the common good. A civilization “is born stoic and dies epicurean,” wrote historian Will Durant about the Babylonians. Our civilization was born optimistic and enlightened, at least by the standards of the day. Now it feels as if it’s fading into paranoid senility. Joe Biden was supposed to be the man of the hour: a calming presence exuding decency, moderation and trust. As a candidate, he sold himself as a transitional president, a fatherly figure in the mold of George H.W. Bush who would restore dignity and prudence to the Oval Office after the mendacity and chaos that came before. It’s why I voted for him, as did so many others who once tipped red. Instead, Biden has become the emblem of the hour: headstrong but shaky, ambitious but inept. He seems to be the last person in America to realize that, whatever the theoretical merits of the decision to withdraw our remaining troops from Afghanistan, the military and intelligence assumptions on which it was built were deeply flawed, the manner in which it was executed was a national humiliation and a moral betrayal, and the timing was catastrophic. We find ourselves commemorating the first great jihadi victory over America, in 2001, right after delivering the second great jihadi victory over America, in 2021. The Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center — water cascading into one void, and then trickling, out of sight, into another — has never felt more fitting. Now Biden proposes to follow this up with his $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill, which The Times’ Jonathan Weisman describes as “the most significant expansion of the nation’s safety net since the war on poverty in the 1960s.” When Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty, its associated legislation — from food stamps to Medicare — passed with bipartisan majorities in a lopsidedly Democratic Congress. Biden has similar ambitions without the same political means. This is not going to turn out well. Last week, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., published an essay in The Wall Street Journal in which he said, “I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs.” Is the White House paying any more attention to Manchin’s message than it did to classified intelligence briefs over the summer warning of the prospect of a swift Taliban victory? Maybe Biden supposes that the legislation, if passed, will prove increasingly popular over time, like Obamacare. That’s the optimistic scenario. Alternatively, he could suffer a legislative calamity like Hillary Clinton’s health care reform in 1994, which would have ended Bill Clinton’s presidency save for his sharp swing to the center, including ending “welfare as we know it” two years later. Even the Obamacare/optimistic precedent was followed by a Democratic rout in 2010, when the party lost 63 House seats. If history repeats itself at the 2022 midterms, I doubt that even Joe Biden’s closest aides think he has the stamina to fight his way back in 2024. Has Kamala Harris shown the political talent to pick up the pieces? Perhaps what will save the Democrats is that Biden’s weakness will tempt Donald Trump to seek (and almost certainly gain) the Republican nomination. But then there’s the chance he’d win the election. There’s a way back from this cliff’s edge. It begins with Biden finding a way to acknowledge publicly the gravity of his administration’s blunders. The most shameful aspect of the Afghanistan withdrawal was the incompetence of the State Department when it came to expediting visas for thousands of people eligible to come to the United States. Accountability could start with Antony Blinken’s resignation. The president might also seize the “strategic pause” Manchin has proposed and push House Democrats to pass the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill without holding it hostage to the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. Infrastructure is far more popular with middle-of-the-road voters than the Great Society reprise that was never supposed to be a part of the Biden brand. My sense is that Biden will do neither. The last few months have told us something worrying about this president: He’s proud, inflexible, and thinks he’s much smarter than he really is. That’s bad news for the administration. It’s worse news for a country that desperately needs to avoid another failed presidency.
In all fairness isnt the question posed a little slanted when you read behind the lines. According to the poll, when asked whether they believed the $3.5 trillion in spending is “unnecessary and wasteful … in addition to the $6 trillion that has already been passed for COVID recovery and other programs,” just 35 percent of respondents said they believed the spending is necessary while 55 percent said they feel it is unnecessary. I mean does this sound like an unbiased poll: American Action Network surveyed Americans in 7 middle-of-the-road Congressional Districts to gauge voter sentiment about economic proposals being considered in Congress. The data show the left’s “Build Back Better” agenda is toxic, and that Americans believe the liberal $3.5 trillion spending proposal will only increase the economic pain families are already feeling. The American Action Network is a nonprofit, conservative issue advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., aligned to the Republican Party. The question is basically "Do you think the huge amount of money being proposed to be spent by liberals is unnecessary and wasteful after already spending a huge amount of money?" I would assume most people would say yes it is unnecessary. This is often a major bias in any poll when the question presupposes the answer it wants. I will not comment on the 800 total respondents meant to cover the opinion of 7 whole districts in various states.
Sure, the poll is not rigorously constructed and clearly is leading the witness when presenting the questions. So the good news for Joe and the dems is that this poll is sort of a sideshow and not much to worry about. But the bad news for Joe and the dems is that Joe is clearly down a quart or two in several categories in the major, more-mainstream, credible polls. So-like every politician- Joe will get to bat down some shlocky polls and dismiss them outright. So Joe is all set if the more credible polls do not start showing the same thing in regard to the swing states. But, I am not sure that trend is Joe's friend right now. The shlocky poll may be flawed but Joe and the dems still have some containment to do.
His polling numbers are takin a huge hit, we can say this without even looking at a poll. But hate when a poll is set up so biased (and it is done with the liberal think tanks also) and so few people as well.
Not a lot of high-fivin going on in demville right now. Honeymoon is over for sure. Joe needs to watch his arse with gas prices. Americans will put up with losing wars, killing soldiers, being an all round idiot, womanizing and being a commie from presidents BUT high gas prices are a deal killer. It is in our DNA. If you are a president, do not go there. Ya, I know, supply chain issues, hurricanes, whatever. A wiggle and a blip and Americans will deal with it but things were not in the right direction before recent events. That's the deal killer for dems. If Biden fucks up and bombs Moscow, Idaho, we expect that. Just make sure gas prices do not rise more particularly after he has been working his arse off to kill our self-sufficiency. With the current hostage situation and inflation, there is already the stench of Jimmy Carter in the air and a little of that goes a longggggggg way. ‘There’s no good news’: Biden’s rough summer puts Dems on high alert The party is all too aware of what happened to the last two Democratic presidents after a turbulent first two years. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/08/democrats-bet-biden-bounce-back-510366