By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
Two major polls released this week show President Joe Biden is still facing lowball popularity numbers, and a second survey by one of these firms shows an overwhelming majority of likely voters think the country is “headed in the wrong direction.”
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Reuters is reporting that a poll it conducted with Ipsos showed only 39 percent of respondents approve of Biden’s performance as president. That’s down from his still-pallid 40 percent approval in October and 42 percent in September.
Simultaneously, Rasmussen is reporting that 42 percent of likely voters approve of Biden’s job performance while 57 percent disapprove. Narrowing that down, Rasmussen says only 25 percent “strongly approve” of Biden’s work, while 47 percent strongly disapprove.
Rasmussen does what it calls the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, which sees the numbers bouncing up and down every 24 hours. While they may not show the roller coaster ride of the stock market, the polling data does show slight shifts in support for Biden, but the degree of opposition has not seemed to vary that much.
Rasmussen also regularly surveys people about whether they think the country is headed in the right or wrong direction. Those polling numbers have not been kind to the president. Only 29 percent of likely voters think the country is on the right track. An alarming 65 percent believe we are going in the wrong direction, same as they did last week.
One year ago when the same question was asked, 29 percent thought the nation was heading in the right direction while 66 percent said we’re on the wrong track, so Biden’s administration has been doing a poor job, and it’s been going on for at least 12 months.
According to Reuters, other “recent polls” have indicated that if Biden squares off against Donald Trump next year it could be “a potentially close race.”
But that’s not what the New York Times/Sienna poll—reported here earlier this week—revealed. This poll shows former President Trump leading Biden by 10 points in Nevada, 6 points in Georgia, 5 points each in Arizona and Michigan, and 4 points in Pennsylvania, while Biden is only up by 2 points in Wisconsin.
