After four years of the alleged to be liberal media going hard against Biden? Yeah, 45% is pretty good. |
A candidate needs the manpower of a major party to take the Presidency. Larry Hogan won't do it because he doesn't have the money or manpower to mount a credible presidential campaign. Sure, he will get a bunch of "independents" who are happy to vote for him, but those people are not volunteering for him every weekend to get his name on the ballots in 50 states + overseas territories. You can't just "plug & play" campaign infrastructure on your own - this is why the party apparatus is so important. Biden and Trump are likely already placing huge ad buys right now for all of September to Election Day in the swing states. Someone like Hogan - if he jumped in now - wouldn't even be able to buy ads once he wrangled up his money and a staff. If folks truly want to bring down the two party system, the only way to do that is to do the hard work of building a new party from the ground up. Win city council seats, mayoral races, state houses, then seats in Congress. It's a long game to play. |
So well over half of the electorate disapprove of Biden? Sounds about right. |
Look, a bit less than half of the country may approve in your polls. But that does not mean 55% approve of trump. There is some percentage of that 55% that does. Then there are the people who are (unbelievably yet still exist) undecided and a percentage that won't vote at all. It is that mix of people who will decide things. |
Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s. (This is about Biden, not Trump.) |
True for the most part but I don't think you are factoring in the unprecedented dynamics of the 2024 election relative to any past election. We've never had two major party nominees as old and unpopular as the presumed nominees, Trump and Biden and this opens the door for things to happen that have never happened or rarely happen. The most likely 2024 election scenario is Trump and Biden becoming the nominees and receiving 90% to 95% of the total votes in November in a very, very close race but there are other possibilities that could change this likely outcome. Not only does Trump have the age/health concern and the very unfavorable view from a majority of Americans, he also has serious legal concerns. Nothing related to the 2024 election is a guarantee at this point and it's more possible than ever for there to be some surprises that shake things up between now and November. |
You cannot talk one's polls w/o the other at this point, if the point of this is the election (which it is). Further, the point remains. A big part of the US citizens will NEVER approve of a dem president, and vice versa. And a less than 50% approval rating is more common than you would think. Trump, for example, his numbers never got over 50% and it was as low as 30 something percent. Obama's, while at times in excess of 60%, the average approval rating was not at 50%. Same for GWB. So you'd like it to be that a less than 50% rating is something notable. It is, in fact, not. |
Glenn Youngkin is at 58 percent approval. |
He’s too chicken to run for President, though. |
True and it seems there are a couple groups aiming to do just that. It takes time and money. |
Biden's going to pick up: a) those Republicans who can't abide Trump and thought maybe he'd get beaten in the primaries; and b) those Democrats and people who disapprove of Biden mainly because they want someone further to the left and will come to realize that no one like that is coming up in 2024. I think Trump has a hard cap on his poll numbers and Biden's cap is much softer. |
I hope you are right but there are GOP voters out there that are currently hoping for a better option than Trump but will vote for him in the general election against any Dem. The fact that Trump has over performed on election day relative to polling data in both 2016 and 2020 is concerning as well. If Trump and Biden are the nominees, it will be a very, very close electoral vote outcome. |
FIFY. |
This is what I believe as well. |
Did he over perform in 2020? In any event, that was before he tried to overthrow our government. If a majority is voting for him after that, our country deserves to go to hell. The Greatest Generation fought against this shit, and if we voluntarily throw away our birthright, we don’t deserve to self-govern. |