DNC-leaning FiveThirtyEight is noting in a series of polls how Joe Biden’s approval numbers seem to be dropping, and the trend seems to be consistent starting a month ago where he started with a 52 percent approval rating, and it now stands at 47. His dispparival is 46,9 percent, meaning statistically he is just about even after having enjoyed a 10 point advantage in approval to disapproval a month ago.
Biden’s Declining Approval Rating Is Not Just About Afghanistan
From fivethirtyeight.com
2021-08-27 10:00:00
Geoffrey Skelley
Excerpt:
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In the past few weeks, President Biden’s job approval rating has dropped precipitously while his disapproval rating has risen sharply amid concerns surrounding the delta variant of the coronavirus, the associated economic fallout from the pandemic and the ongoing withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
Just how much have things changed for Biden? A month ago, his approval rating stood at 52.7 percent and his disapproval rating sat at 42.7 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker, for a net approval rating of +10.0 percentage points. But as of Thursday, his approval rating stood at 47.1 percent and his disapproval rating at 47.0 percent, for a net approval rating of +0.1 points.
In an era of deep political polarization where we rarely see big shifts in public opinion of presidents, this counts as a pretty big swing.
