Biden: 100-Day Report Card

[Jennicut]

Biden: 100-Day Report Card

Joe Biden checks in after about 100 days as vice president as a popular figure, but far less so than his new boss, President Barack Obama.

Overall, 57 percent of Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll said they have a favorable view of Biden, the former senator from Delaware, 32 percent have an unfavorable opinion and the rest expressed no opinion.

Obama, in the Post-ABC data released yesterday, fared better, with 72 percent giving him positive marks overall; about as many, 69 percent, approved of the president's job performance over his first three months in office.

Biden draws broadly solid marks from fellow Democrats, 82 percent of whom rate him favorably, and nets out approvingly among independents, who split 53 to 34 percent in his favor. By contrast, Republicans are largely negative, with 61 percent holding negative impressions, 26 percent positive ones.

Biden's overall favorability rating is about the same as the first Post-ABC read on his predecessor: In July 2001, 60 percent of Americans said they had a favorable view of then-No. 2 Dick Cheney. Just before he left office in January, a CNN poll put Cheney's favorability rating at 29 percent. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2009/04/biden_100-day_report_card.html

So the post the other day about Joe having a lower favorbility rating then Cheney did at this time is not really panning out. This is the second poll I saw that shows Joe with a rating in the high 50's, which was where Darth Cheney was. Of course, now Dick is at 13% and if he keeps talking to the MSM I bet it will be even lower. LOL.

[PatSeg]

1. Interesting

I wonder how his appearance on 60 Minutes will affect his approval ratings.

[jillan]

2. 82% favorability rating from Democrats - that's excellent!

I have NO idea what that post was the other day about Joe being less popular than Cheney. That was bizarre!

I think people remember Cheney from poppa Bush's presidency, so that's probably why he was more well known.

ehhh - whatever!

I think Joe's numbers are going to only go up and up.

[Jennicut]

3. Yup. That Pew poll must have been a bit off.

Looks like Joe is is line with what both Gore and Cheney were. Non issue.

[Muttocracy]

4. The GOP would hate Biden no matter what - they're stuck on Bork or whatever

so the fact he's 82% favorable with Dems, and 53% with independents, sounds great to me. There aren't many GOPers left either! (Independents went Dem, GOPers with brains went Independent!)