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polls don't mean anything"?
Or
"that "pollster's a right winger" ???
Or
"don't be so obsessed with polls"
Or "
"what do you want Biden to fail? Polls go up and down"
We are in the right ( as always). Personally I'm hoping that once some legislation gets passed the polls will turn around?
What do we need to do?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)democraticunderground! Seems we should be talking about what's wrong and how we think we can make it better. Instead of just saying/thinking whatever. Or my personal "favorite"... " I trust them they know what they're doing."
Perhaps, just perhaps? We the people, we the Democrats, need to help figure out what the hell is going on. And, in one voice, be part of the solution??
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)And Democrats need to pass the voting rights act, without which keeping the House in 2022 will be much harder.
Then make good ads touting everything that was accomplished.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Agree with your action ideas. But what? Democrats are approving that the IRS monitor bank accounts? Huh?
I love my party! We sincerely need to figure out how to turn this around. For the sake of our country.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Its a really bad idea.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)the years fall on the backs of banks to have to add to staff to execute - along with
the other obvious reasons.
Polybius
(15,390 posts)Look at the Primary's in 2020. She didn't do well. She would have been a great Attorney General though.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)full rein? I remember she was put in charge of the border. Wonder if
she has staff to actually develop actions that can be measured and
publicized.
I know from being in the business world, that the most effective
people take a complex matter, study it, and simplify it into incremental
actions. I see this as needing improvement with our approach to
controlling covid too. Get on TV for 10 minutes at the very same time
every single day. Announce the top five states, the ones that improved,
the % of vaccinated. Keep it super simple. Create competion.
JustAnotherGen
(31,813 posts)Including those of Republicans.
Keep your eyes on the HOUSE and SENATE approval polls.
That's what matters in 2022.
Yoyoyo77
(267 posts)Celerity
(43,330 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Polybius
(15,390 posts)That's way too low. Add another zero, if that.
Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)The exclusion of the provision, originally sought by some Democratic lawmakers as a way to identify people underreporting income on their taxes, marks a major victory for banks and credit unions that had vigorously opposed the provision.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,922 posts)each month that dont approve of how Joe is doing his job. Or the non-working ones receiving it. Or their husbands? Or both? Or the people who got a $1400 check?
No?
I think yes. Half of eligible voters dont bother. Probably half of those that do only vote in Presidential elections and couldnt name even one of their states U.S. Senators. But theyve seen a lying ad on TV about Democrats trying to take away their guns while watching their favorite reality TV shows. Or they want to be part of the neighborhood social scene where everyone is talking about socialism and how government needs to be small.
So do they know those $250, $300, $1400 payments are all coming from democrats? I doubt they even think about it. Its just a money tree, as far as they know. Hell, Ive seen polls where people think Republicans are giving it to them. But they all get the money, and they all like it. Youd think they would all want to vote for the source of their giving tree so it will keep on giving.
Figure out how to let them know who their giving tree is, and ISNT, and it might impact the polling. And, get them off their asses to go pull the lever for the source of their money.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)There are top notch PR firms on our side? WTH, hire them asap
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)An article
Why are pollsters finding such different levels of uncertainty? A lot of it probably has to do with the way they're conducted. Polls conducted using telephone interviews -- including the Quinnipiac, Grinnell and Gallup polls, generally don't read off "not sure" as a possible response to their questions, but their interviewees will sometimes volunteer it, anyway. Some pollsters push harder than others to prompt wavering respondents to share which of the options they're leaning toward.
Among polls conducted online, as the other four surveys are, procedures can range from providing respondents with an explicit option to say they're uncertain to all but requiring them to answer a question before continuing the survey.
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Given that, one explanation is that these polls aren't telling contradictory stories so much as one, somewhat more nuanced one, along these lines: About one-eighth of the public doesn't hold particularly strong views about Biden, but if prompted, they're probably lukewarmly positive on balance.
There are two more points on which recent surveys generally agree. First, there's the overarching trends that have defined the Biden administration thus far. Most pollsters show Biden taking office with positive ratings and enjoying a brief honeymoon period, before seeing his net ratings drop late this summer and stabilize at a lower level this fall, leaving him with considerably less of a reservoir of goodwill than many of his predecessors held at this point. A number of state-level polls have also found Biden's ratings sliding from their initial levels, including in blue states like Maryland and New Jersey.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/politics/approval-rating-biden-polls/index.html
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)with an enormous approval rating?
Or, bottom line, don't believe the polls, they are all screwy and here's why?
Septua
(2,254 posts)..just not always the right thing...IMO. But the fact his approval is down some 10 points, for whatever reasons, isn't good, particularly if it affects the VA gov race. If everyone got up everyday and compared life with Biden to life with Trump, Joe's numbers would stay in the 90's.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)is good enough for a good long while. But seems obvious that the honeymoon is over for lots of Dems.
Wow I would hate to be in his shoes right now. Who would have ever thought the current situation would have happened.
Lawrence454
(38 posts)Are you looking for him to fail. Polls go up and down I dont take much stock in polls anymore.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Typical answers!
JI7
(89,247 posts)to be that obsessed with polls every moment of one's life.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Metaphorical
(1,602 posts)I'm not worried at this point. Biden was going to face fairly harsh polls as the easy wins (mostly undoing the worst of the Trump EOs) gave way to getting legislation passed in a very closely divided Congress, and as investigations go dark as committees review evidence. I think that Covid fatigue is also making a difference, as we're passing into what is likely the last major likely bump of Covid before it starts receding in the spring, hopefully evolving into something that's no worse than a flu.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)the polls will improve. The failure to pass the infrastructure bill has hurt too imho.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)( Maybe even subconscious) that once Biden got in that he was so much smarter and kinder and more effective than FG that he could miraculously make it all disappear.
Polybius
(15,390 posts)Right now, it's not so bad. The worst that could happen is that we lose Virginia. Bad, but not nearly as bad as losing the House and/or Senate.
JustAnotherGen
(31,813 posts)Prevails in Hunterdon County NJ Tuesday - it won't be a bell weather for the rest of America.
It should be a wake up call that we can never be "understanding" of seditious bastards.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/jan-6-republicans-ballot-election-day
If NONE of our Democratic Party write-ins for school board are ALLOWED to be seated by the Hunterdon County Clerk - Mary Melfi who is Soloway's bestie - it will be even more proof that we can't *understand* Seditious Bastards.
I think if that racist asshole Republican wins in VA - the GOP will hand the midterms to the Democratic Party.
I also think if Terry McAuliffe prevails on Tuesday with less than a 10 point lead - the pundits will push voter election fraud.
Celerity
(43,330 posts)And what pundits? Fuck Faux News, NewsMax, and OANN .
ProfessorGAC
(65,000 posts)No matter how many times it's said that policies of POTUS don't substantially affect gas prices (especially in the first 10 months), people see $3.75 at the pump and start grousing.
And, dem leaders are ignoring this dissatisfaction instead of trumpeting that gas prices were higher in 2017 & 2018 when Biden was a private citizen.
I told three guys at the golf course this. Their response was "No way!". I pulled out my phone and had a site bookmarked that shows average price by county since 1981.
Sure enough, gas prices were 13-20¢ higher for 13-16 weeks in those years than now. The response was a sheepish " I didn't remember prices that high.". I asked them if the prices then were TFG's fault. They surrendered.
But, people see gas prices as they drive every single day. This is compounded by the precipitous drop in gas prices 16-18 months ago.
All they see is twice as much and the whining begins.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)How much closer to home can you get. Except maybe tax relief.
ProfessorGAC
(65,000 posts)If it costs more to transport tomatoes from California to us near Chicago, the consumer pays for it.
So, all prices creep up.
It's another reason why run of the mill economists are freaking over inflation. Standard inflation doesn't include energy costs, so they say "Fuel prices aren't driving this inflation." But, it is a factor in the cost of every day items going up, but since they ignore energy costs, they look for other reasons to explain it. There are other factors, but most ignore this one completely.
madville
(7,408 posts)I know I'm paying 20% more since a year ago for the same stuff I always buy. If the Administration lets the COVID vaccine mandate apply to the trucking industry I expect that to double, there is a good reason many countries have exempted truck drivers from their vaccine mandates.
Kingofalldems
(38,452 posts)Lawrence454
(38 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)shrike3
(3,580 posts)I remember when everyone was saying Trump would be tough to beat. Then Covid hit.
A few months can be a lifetime in politics. We'll see.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)shrike3
(3,580 posts)I don't know what you were trying to accomplish. What do you expect a bunch of people on an internet forum to do?
Besides, where have you been? There've been doom and gloom posts all over the place. Every day.
You're probably be better off contacting people who could actually do something about the current situation. Your congressman, your senator, whatever.