Biden approval skyrockets - now higher than Trump, Obama, Clinton, Carter, or Reagan

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David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
August 26, 2022

President Joe Biden‘s approval rating in the past month has skyrocketed, jumping six points after massive successes in getting his legislative agenda passed. At 44%, Biden’s approval rating is now higher than the approval ratings of Donald Trump (41%), Barack Obama (43%), Bill Clinton (39%), Jimmy Carter (43%), and Ronald Reagan (41%) at this point in their presidencies.

The only Presidents who had higher job approval ratings at this point were George W. Bush (65%) and George H.W. Bush (74%), both of whom were engaged in prosecuting wars in the Middle East, and Richard Nixon (55%). Gerald Ford’s was 48% at this point in his presidency, but as an unelected president coming in after the Nixon resignation it’s a difficult comparison to weigh.

All the approval ratings above come via Gallup’s Presidential Job Approval Center and are based on the current poll number and time period for that poll. Gallup does not publish weekly presidential job numbers any more, so the Biden figure is for August 1-23, 2022. Other presidential numbers are for the polls closest to that date and week number (around 79-84 weeks in office.)

President Biden has every reason to celebrate the huge jump. In recent months he has become a historic president, battling an opposition party fresh off an attempted coup, with a cult–like leader facing possible criminal charges on a variety of potentially unlawful acts, an evenly-divided Senate, a House with only a modest majority, all at a time of nearly unprecedented crises – domestic, international, and worldwide.

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[DemocraticPatriot]

1. Things are getting better!

Now we just need to vote like our lives depend on it! For many of us, that is true.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Fantastic!

Best President of my lifetime.

[WA-03 Democrat]

11. I agree!

[calimary]

25. So do I.

I’m SO pleased!

I thought he’d be an improvement, but MAN, the dividends! He’s surpassed all my expectations! Experience counts. So does a big, kind heart.

[WA-03 Democrat]

27. I think that

President Biden super power is love. You cannot fake that. You cannot buy that. You just are that. This along with smarts and the ability to stay in control of their emotions. I admire him and wish to be more like him. He’s the real deal and my man crush is too

[Demsrule86]

3. So, maybe we can stop getting posts about President Biden no running in 24...so tired them.

[underpants]

4. And it's Gallup

[NJCher]

5. I never wasted any time worrying about it

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in the first place.

It was easy to see that the conditions causing his unpopularity were temporary.

A lot of people at this forum are worrywarts, handwringers, and pessimists.

[Wednesdays]

9. And a few of them, trolls.

[GoodRaisin]

6. Getting stuff done, keeping campaign promises. Things the public isn't used

to seeing. And it’s coming at the right time.

[liberalla]

10. Exactly. it's all coming together as planned (and hoped)! Great timing.

Now what will the pubs do to try and ruin it?

More radical ideas, hate and violence, I guess...


Go Joe!

[gratuitous]

7. What are, "Headlines you shouldn't expect to see in the popular media?" Mayim

[VWolf]

12. Next up on M$M - "New higher poll numbers spell bad news for Biden" n/t

[GreenWave]

16. Yep! Up is down as they stand on their heads to prove it!

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Excellent

And they will try to drown it out with "The Narrative®", a pre-set pile of bullshit talking points that keep getting blown away, one at a time.

[GoCubsGo]

14. Well, that explains why the MSM has stepped up their "Biden bad, bad, bad" shit.

Got to drive those numbers back down.

[uponit7771]

15. K&R,

[Cha]

17. Beautiful! This is going to make

some people so sad. LOL!

[onetexan]

18. K&R!!

Yay MoJoe!!

[tarheelsunc]

19. Above all else, I am just so happy for Joe as a person.

After all the negative press coverage and the premature grave digging, he's showing why over 80 million Americans voted for him. He was truly meant for this moment in history.

[Calculating]

20. Not to be a downer, but...

I'm not exactly feeling all the magic and prosperity. The stock market just keeps going down, hardly any orders at work because a bad stock market leads to few luxury purchases, no progress whatsoever on cannabis legalization, and a ridiculous student loan giveaway which is completely unfair to the people in my family who all actually paid their way through school without loans.

Who are the people doing well? Everyone I know is struggling.

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22. Seriously? I paid off my student loans and I'm thrilled others don't have to. It was a real

struggle when I was in my 20s and early 30s. I had to defer buying a house because of them. Why are you begrudging this break for former students? It will help the economy. I've paid property taxes for school funding for decades, yet I don't have kids. Should I whine and demand a refund? When did we all get so selfish? Unbelievable.

[NYC Liberal]

29. Any correction of bad policy could be called "unfair"

I suppose when we banned poll taxes, that could have been called “unfair” to those all the people who had paid them previously in order to vote…or to those who never got to vote because they couldn’t afford it.

Legalizing same-sex marriage is unfair to all the people who were never allowed to marry their partner.

Legalizing marijuana is unfair to all the people who spent time in prison for it.

Raising the minimum wage is unfair to those who had to struggle when it was lower.

Passing anti-discrimination laws is unfair to people who suffered due to discrimination.

etc.

[Sky Jewels]

31. Unfair?

College tuition for Millennials and Gen Z is also monumentally unfair. Attending costs exponentially more than it did for Boomers and old Gen Xers, who went to college when it was heavily subsidized by taxpayers. Until the 90s, it was possible to work your way through college and/or take out loans that you had a good chance of paying off in a reasonable amount of time.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. President Joe Biden didn't mow my lawn!

[Blue Owl]

23. Like a Brandon rising from the dark

[JCMach1]

24. People elected Biden to just BE WHO HE IS and BE COMPETENT

That's it...

Anything else is just gravy

[PCIntern]

26. But the media will continue to reference

“Joe Biden’s low poll numbers”. Guaranteed!

[Takket]

28. and he did that with the filibuster still in place.

now the Dems need to get to 52 in the senate to neutralize sinema and manchin, then restore the freedoms SCOTUS has torn away (first abortion, 2nd voting rights)

[Stuart G]

30. K and R. Thanks for posting.

[Better Days Ahoy]

32. Ok, then maybe MSM can stop

With the Biden bashing. Jesus Fucking Christ.
So tired of bush league amateur hour.