President Biden's "overall approval rating jumped to 47%, up 8 points from the NPR poll last month.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This makes me smile

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After what's been a bleak several months politically for President Biden, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds he is seeing a significant boost in his approval ratings across the board following his State of the Union address and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"This is an unusual bounce," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll. "It gets him back to where he was pre-Afghanistan."

Here's a look at some of the numbers:

Overall approval rating jumped to 47%, up 8 points from the NPR poll last month. Presidents don't generally see much, if any bounce, out of a State of the Union address. Since 1978, there had only been six times when a president saw an approval rating improve 4 points or more following State of the Union addresses, according to the pollsters. Three of those bounces were for former President Bill Clinton;

Ukraine handling is up 18 points to 52%;

Coronavirus pandemic handling is now 55%, up 8 points; and
Economic handling up 8 points to 45%.

[Walleye]

1. Maybe heckling him about his deceased son wasn't such a good idea

[Wingus Dingus]

2. Even Republicans have to be thinking, deep down inside, that

it's good not to have the Putin Fanboy who can't stop running his stupid mouth in office right now.

[lagomorph777]

13. No, the Roubles are drying up and that is going to make it hard

to put gas in the yacht.

[Wingus Dingus]

23. It is fascinating to watch them all trying to navigate this turn of events.

[Claustrum]

3. Nice, I hope the trend continues.

Let the "rally around the flag" effect be helpful for a democrat for once.

[Achilleaze]

4. "Jobs up. Vision clear. Polls up. Dems in disarray."- Corp Media

[Walleye]

5. So will the news say his approval rating "skyrocketed"

Since they’ve been saying for months “plummeted and cratered”

[W_HAMILTON]

7. They probably just won't mention it at all.

And then once it falls again, they'll bring it back up.

I noticed this during the Trump administration; all the stories you ever read were about how Trump's approval rating kept climbing; yet, intuitively, how could it keep climbing if he was always mired in the 30s? The answer: the media just reported on it when it was positive for Trump, which meant you only saw "Trump approval climbs" stories all the time. When it dropped back to his usual terrible numbers, the media just refused to report on those stories as often as they did when his approval jumped a couple of points.

Now, it's the reverse with Biden.

Liberal media, my ass.

[Walleye]

8. It is maddening. I feel we are dealing with enemies on all sides

[lame54]

20. A slight bump - but...

They always have to stick their buts in there

[Walleye]

25. Oh yeah. You can always hear that but coming.

[magicarpet]

29. It is like a smelly fart.....

[Walleye]

30. 😆Kind of sounds like one sometimes

[XacerbatedDem]

6. Great news!

And did you see the jobs report for last month:

"U.S. employers added 678,000 jobs in February, exceeding
economists' forecasts of 440,000. New job creation in both December
2021 and January 2022 was also higher than previously reported."

https://www.roberthalf.com/blog/job-market/february-2022-jobs-report-employers-add-678000-jobs

Go Joe, Go Joe, Go Joe

[lagomorph777]

14. Go!

[XacerbatedDem]

22. Alright, I've got a favorite new song. Thanks. I'm gonna have to look up their albums.

[lagomorph777]

24. They're awesome.

When I listen to the chorus in "Go" I hear "Go Joe! Go Joe! Go Joe!"

Probably not correct, but I like imagining that.

[XacerbatedDem]

26. Me, too. I could have sworn she said that.

[Tomconroy]

9. I think early February was the low point.

[Ohio Joe]

10. I remain firm in my belief...

November will be a very happy time for us. Repugs are burying themselves with their white supremacy bullshit, support for Putin, divisive anger, in fighting, anti-science nuttery and even their total lack of a platform.

[lame54]

21. We may get the votes but...

They are working hard to eliminate them

[andym]

11. How the situation ends in Ukraine will bear big time on Biden's approval

as will the end of the Covid pandemic and inflation.

[lagomorph777]

12. 47% at RW NPR is pretty good.

The real number would be well north of 50% in that case.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. This makes me smile

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[gratuitous]

16. "This is an unusual bounce"

Obviously, letting Democrats appear on their own without the helpful filter of the liberal media causes people to think that Democrats might just know what they're doing, and that canards about irrelevancies lose some of their punch when they crash into that reality.

Clearly, the solution is to quit letting Democrats define themselves.

[mcar]

17. Did you see where the Politico editor, Sam Stein,

warned people on Twitter to not put too much stock in one poll? Politico - the "news" source that delights in writing entire long articles based on one bad poll doesn't want us to get excited about a good poll.

You can't make this stuff up.

Go Joe and Kamala!

[FloridaBlues]

18. Let's see if media picks up on this polling. They barely mentioned jobs report today

[not fooled]

19. JFC about time

He's doing a great job. And, that's despite having inherited a dumpster fire from putin's puppet.

I think perhaps the war in Ukraine is showing the 'Murican people that GQPee support for dictators--and their desire to establish one-party rule in the US--does not bode well for the average person.

[SCantiGOP]

27. Someone who's rating was lower than Biden's 39% last week --

At this point in his first term, Reagan had a slightly lower approval than Biden.
In fact, in the first polling after Mondale has secured the Democratic nomination, Reagan was averaging about 8 points behind.
He of course went on to win re-election by the largest electoral vote margin since FDR's 1936 landslide.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. This makes me smile

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. Biden's Approval Surges So Much That Even Meet The Press Notices

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New polling reveals President Biden’s approval rating has jumped 8 points to 47%, as a majority of Americans approve of his handling of the Ukraine crisis.

Overall approval rating jumped to 47%, up 8 points from the NPR poll last month. Presidents don’t generally see much, if any bounce, out of a State of the Union address. Since 1978, there had only been six times when a president saw an approval rating improve 4 points or more following State of the Union addresses, according to the pollsters. Three of those bounces were for former President Bill Clinton.

Ukraine handling is up 18 points to 52%;

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