President Joe Biden has received some media coverage for pulling his approval rating over 50 percent in a recent The Economist/YouGov poll… but he hasn’t been so lucky in other polls.
According to a new poll from NBC News, a whopping 69 percent of respondents expressed negative feelings about Joe Biden’s America… and the rest of the poll looks even worse.
In the NBC News poll, only 45 percent approved of Biden as president, and only 35 percent had a favorable opinion of him.
The respondents not only disliked Biden… but also viewed him as bumbling, inconsequential and incapable.
A whopping 26 percent said Biden had caused “not much change either way.” By comparison, only 16 percent of this month’s respondents described former President Barack Obama as this inconsequential, with 14 percent saying the same for Trump.
Only 42 percent considered Biden “knowledgeable and experienced enough to handle the presidency.” On this question, Biden has slid two points since last year… and 13 points since taking office.
For the first time, more respondents in January described him as unexperienced, with 43 percent saying so.
Meanwhile, a measly 28 percent of Americans attributed to Biden “the necessary mental and physical health to be president.” 54 percent — almost double that number — doubted Biden’s health, up four points from last year.
By a margin of 28 points, respondents considered Biden unfit.
Between Jan. 20 and 24, The pollsters surveyed 1,000 adults, including 823 reached by cell phone. They estimated the margin of error at 3.1 percent.
NBC POLL: 71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
"Asked to describe where America is headed in the next year, more than two-thirds use negative words and phrases: 'downhill,' 'wrong track,' 'disaster,' 'hard times,' and 'uncertainty.'" pic.twitter.com/CgSY9VMbKf
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 29, 2023
This poll received already some press coverage for its figure about the respondents’ negative attitudes toward Joe Biden’s America… and it looks even worse than the headlines would have you believe.
According to the poll, a whopping 69 percent of respondents uttered a negative phrase. By comparison, only 23 percent uttered a positive phrase, with 9 percent providing a mixed or neutral phrase… and the poll counted some negative terms, like “confused,” as mixed or neutral terms.
So few people said the word “recovery” that they showed up on the poll as statistically insignificant.
14 percent said “downhill,” and 12 percent said “wrong track.”
The Horn editorial team