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2022-03-07 Home Front: Politix
Biden gets a bounce after the State of the Union, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows
[NPR] After what's been a bleak several months politically for President Biden, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds he is seeing a significant boost in his approval ratings across the board following his State of the Union address and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"This is an unusual bounce," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll. "It gets him back to where he was pre-Afghanistan."

Here's a look at some of the numbers:

  • Overall approval rating jumped to 47%, up 8 points from the NPR poll last month. Presidents don't generally see much, if any bounce, out of a State of the Union address. Since 1978, there had only been six times when a president saw an approval rating improve 4 points or more following State of the Union addresses, according to the pollsters. Three of those bounces were for former President Bill Clinton.

  • Ukraine handling is up 18 points to 52%.

  • Coronavirus pandemic handling is now 55%, up 8 points.

  • Economic handling up 8 points to 45%.
I always trust NPR polls.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-03-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Funny....dat.
Posted by crazyhorse 2022-03-07 01:17||   2022-03-07 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course. That address was Periclean, nay, Churchilian! One for the history books.

Any statesman who gave such a stirring speech would see his approval shoot up like a rocket. What else could possibly account for this?

Say what?
Posted by Wank The Dog 2022-03-07 01:28||   2022-03-07 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Ukraine handling is up 18 points to 52%.

Well well well.

Now we know why the shit-for-brains and his Rainbow Crew encouraged Little Zelensky to keep poking the bear.

Just in time for the midterms. These people are beyond disgusting. Such transparent fucks. Sickening.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 01:38||   2022-03-07 01:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Even a dead cat can get a bounce.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-07 01:52||   2022-03-07 01:52|| Front Page Top

#5 It’s NPR/PBS. The probability of the questions being neutrally phrased and the sample being representative rather than strongly biased to the left approach zero.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-07 02:54||   2022-03-07 02:54|| Front Page Top

#6 That poll is an outliar...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-07 04:59||   2022-03-07 04:59|| Front Page Top

#7 "We sampled our newsroom, and everybody said Joe and the Toe are a swell couple"
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-07 06:47||   2022-03-07 06:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Caught NBC nightly news for the first time in a long while. Lester Holt was vacationing in reporting from Western Ukraine. NBC did a bunch of takes from politicians about Ukraine; not one word quoted or mentioned about Biden.
Posted by Airandee 2022-03-07 09:24||   2022-03-07 09:24|| Front Page Top

#9 The bravery of Ukraine is great but unfortunately, the media will be able to give Biden some of the credit for it.

However, by the summer the Ukraine situation will be stabilized one way or the other and the price of gasoline will be even worse than it is now.
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-07 10:07||   2022-03-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

#10 The lowest price for gas in my little burg is $5.19/gal. Avg price is around $5.50/gal.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-03-07 11:07||   2022-03-07 11:07|| Front Page Top

#11 "This is an unusual bounce,"

In fact, it is unbelievable. Manufactured poll results. Let's face it Fake POTUS is a dangerous moron who was installed by criminals on the left. He has dementia. The Emperor has no clothes.
Posted by JohnQC 2022-03-07 11:33||   2022-03-07 11:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Since 1978, there had only been six times when a president saw an approval rating improve 4 points or more

That's says a lot about the class of occupants of the White House since '78.
Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-07 11:42||   2022-03-07 11:42|| Front Page Top

#13 However, by the summer the Ukraine situation will be stabilized one way or the other and the price of gasoline will be even worse than it is now.

The jury is still out on how this little disruption will impact Ukrainian agriculture but, if you have any spare change, you might want to invest in wheat futures. It's what Pelosi would do.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-07 11:56||   2022-03-07 11:56|| Front Page Top

#14 The day after SOTU I wondered on this forum whether or not I should watch the recording of it on my DVR, being as how I did not watch it live. After viewing clips of the address on Tucker and other TV shows I got a good look at Ms. Kackle Toe sitting, standing and applauding at the designated statements that Joe made. These clips allowed me to make my decision which was that I could not bear to watch the entire SOTU because that woman is so damned repulsive. Somebody must have warned her about the cackling because she looked mean and threatening...sinister, like some gangster's broad. But it didn't matter. Blithering idiot Biden is bad enough but I cannot stand looking at that woman. I deleted the recording without watching it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-07 12:07||   2022-03-07 12:07|| Front Page Top

#15 As the stockbrokers call it: Dead Cat Bounce.
Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-03-07 12:26||   2022-03-07 12:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Guess they haven't filled up the car yet, or don't pay for their own gas.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-07 13:05||   2022-03-07 13:05|| Front Page Top

#17 wheat up 4% today

oil up to $120/bar WTI - a level, which if sustained, would be a disaster to the US economy (except for the drilling and production industry)
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-07 13:14||   2022-03-07 13:14|| Front Page Top

#18 As Michael Jordan said, "Eat your Wheaties futures - and don't forget your whole grains Potash"
Posted by Ghost of Soros 2022-03-07 13:19||   2022-03-07 13:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Then blame Big Oil's record profits like what the UK did. IIUC they imposed price controls, turned on subsidies to drop the (up front) price to consumer, then added Green Energy fees up to the point where the price was still lower, and better, but some 20-25% more than it could be. What a deal!

Russia, The Sauds, the Iranians, the Venezuelans, everywhere but Made in USA.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-07 13:23||   2022-03-07 13:23|| Front Page Top

#20 Gas Prices too high, go buy an electric car.

Bold sales pitch.

I don't get it. Is Buttgig trying to tank support for this "Administration"? Oh, that's right, got his position because of who he slept with.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-07 14:42||   2022-03-07 14:42|| Front Page Top

#21 ^ Buttgig sleeps with Hunter?
didn't know he swung that way
Posted by Spavinter Spawn of the Antelope6675 2022-03-07 14:46||   2022-03-07 14:46|| Front Page Top

#22 IIUC, Hunter Biden's real preference are Russian prostitutes.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-07 14:54||   2022-03-07 14:54|| Front Page Top

#23 ^ and Widower Sister-In-Laws
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-07 14:58||   2022-03-07 14:58|| Front Page Top

#24 Yeah, and that one with his cousin is...uncomfortable. The missing trifecta would be sister, but, you know, The Big Guy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-07 15:30||   2022-03-07 15:30|| Front Page Top

#25 ^ cousin underage niece
Posted by Spike Cravise1149 2022-03-07 15:44||   2022-03-07 15:44|| Front Page Top

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