I saw a NYT article on POJOE’s approval rating yesterday. It was depressing:
Biden’s honeymoon is over, but he retains majority approval, a poll found.
Whatever honeymoon period he may have briefly enjoyed, President Biden is now past it, according to the results of a Monmouth University poll released this week.
Mr. Biden’s approval rating now stands at 51 percent nationwide, with 42 percent of the country disapproving, according to the poll, which was released on Wednesday. That’s a much narrower split than his 54 percent approval and 30 percent disapproval in another Monmouth survey that was conducted just after he took office.
Oh well, it is what it is. That was my attitude. In other words, "It’s true.”
I just went back to Google’s aggregate of the news and saw this:
AP poll puts Biden job approval at 60 percent
Other public polling published this week has shown Biden with similar margins of support.
A solid majority of Americans say they approve of President Joe Biden’s early job performance, according to a new survey, with even more respondents giving him positive marks for his management of the coronavirus pandemic.
I then got on realclearpolitics. POJO’s average is 55.4% and they have the Monmouth approval as 50, not 51. (?) Now getting exasperated I went to Monmouth’s site and from the horse's monmouth the number is 51. Why, RCP? Why? RCP hasn’t factored in the AP/NORC poll, which was released today, and which I saw on Politico. Why? Further, if you throw out Swine Rasmussen's number the Monmouth poll (incorrectly tabulated by RCP as 50%) cited by the Times (correctly as 51%) has the lowest approval number in the Feb. 23-March 4 averaging period. The range is 50% to 61%. The “problem” that this post originally was to address was why there would be such a disparity overnight in polls from reputable pollsters of 51% (Monmouth, cited by NYT) to 60% (AP/NORC)? But now there are more problems.
Man, this is so fucked up. I don't know what polling’s problems are but there’s more than one.
