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What are you talking about? The admins current net approval rating is -6.9% https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin https://www

by buckhx 1y ago

What are you talking about? The admins current net approval rating is -6.9% https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... Biden was at a +5% net rating at this point in his term

mensetmanusman 1y ago
Approval ratings are just measures of partisanship. Ideally it drops to zero. The fact that it was nearly 40% for a leader experiencing dementia-like symptoms confirmed this with political theoreticians.
- mindslight 1y ago
  Biden had a team around him to work with, plus the general separation of responsibilities of independent agencies. So nominal "Biden" was doing just fine regardless of the one man. This time we're getting the full dementia experience from a manic mad king who has already driven away anyone that might tell him no.
  - mensetmanusman 1y ago
    So these polls are about the idea of Biden and not the person? That also supports the idea that polls don’t matter.
    - mindslight 1y ago
      Yes, polls are obviously about the administration's actions. And people's opinions of administrations are obviously important - even more so with politicians' tendency to promise everything while campaigning, then focus on different things when actually in office. And this effect is even more pronounced with Trump's signature blend of contradictory word salad and shameless direct lying.
      - mensetmanusman 1y ago
        So it doesn’t matter if Trump lies then? because the idea of Trump is to lower taxes, protect rural jobs via manufacturing tariffs, prevent millions from cutting in line?
        mindslight 1y ago
        I'm not interested in another Gish gallop. I recall a previous exchange with you which you just dropped once I started digging into the superficial talking points.
wqaatwt 1y ago
> -6.9% Still extremely high by global standards considering everything. e.g. Hollande in France was at less than -80% not that many years ago.

by buckhx 1y ago

mensetmanusman 1y ago

Approval ratings are just measures of partisanship. Ideally it drops to zero. The fact that it was nearly 40% for a leader experiencing dementia-like symptoms confirmed this with political theoreticians.

mindslight 1y ago
Biden had a team around him to work with, plus the general separation of responsibilities of independent agencies. So nominal "Biden" was doing just fine regardless of the one man. This time we're getting the full dementia experience from a manic mad king who has already driven away anyone that might tell him no.
- mensetmanusman 1y ago
  So these polls are about the idea of Biden and not the person? That also supports the idea that polls don’t matter.
  - mindslight 1y ago
    Yes, polls are obviously about the administration's actions. And people's opinions of administrations are obviously important - even more so with politicians' tendency to promise everything while campaigning, then focus on different things when actually in office. And this effect is even more pronounced with Trump's signature blend of contradictory word salad and shameless direct lying.
    - mensetmanusman 1y ago
      So it doesn’t matter if Trump lies then? because the idea of Trump is to lower taxes, protect rural jobs via manufacturing tariffs, prevent millions from cutting in line?
      - mindslight 1y ago
        I'm not interested in another Gish gallop. I recall a previous exchange with you which you just dropped once I started digging into the superficial talking points.

wqaatwt 1y ago

> -6.9% Still extremely high by global standards considering everything. e.g. Hollande in France was at less than -80% not that many years ago.