Jazz Shaw writes at HotAir.com about an especially interesting element of President Biden’s polling decline.
The latest Associated Press/NORC poll numbers were released, … and the news wasn’t very encouraging for President Joe Biden or his supporters. Following several weeks of consistently bad headlines, it would seem that people are beginning to sour on the “Build Back Better” presidency. … The dips are coming from his own party and the demographic groups that have traditionally been the most supportive of him. …
… Support among Democrats is still strong, but it dropped from 92 to 85 percent. The AP describes this as having “dipped slightly,” but they curiously apply the same label to his support from the critical category of independent voters. That’s one area where Biden actually cratered, falling from 62 to 38 percent. The only party demographic where he stayed the same was with Republicans, where he has the same 11% support he had last time.
The real eye-openers came with the shift in support along racial lines. Biden is doing slightly worse with white voters, falling from 49% to 42%. But with Black voters, one of the key demographics he relied on in 2020, his support absolutely tanked, dropping from 86% to 64%. It’s hard to imagine this being attributable to much beyond his vaccine mandates and protests against those policies coming from Black Lives Matter. If Joe slips much further and actually goes underwater with Black voters he can pretty much forget about any future election chances. No Democrat can survive with those sorts of numbers. …
… The last number to touch on is the percentage of people who feel the country is heading in the right direction. Three months into Biden’s presidency it stood at slightly more than 50. This week it’s at 34. Barely one-third of the country thinks we’re on a positive course, and that’s coming from a poll that’s usually quite Biden-friendly. I’m guessing that nobody got a good night’s sleep at the White House on Friday.
