05-08-2024, 11:02 AM
(05-08-2024, 10:20 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I really do think that the biggest problem right now is that Congressional approval ratings are abysmal and there is a large portion of the country that does not see Congress as an entity functioning in good faith. I mean, the spread on the approval polling average, the SPREAD, is over 50 percentage points meaning there are over 50% more people in the country that disapprove of what Congress is doing than approve of it. We should not at all be surprised at this sort of thing right now.
That statistic isn't really that surprising. According to the 538 (thanks for turning me onto that site), neither of our presidential candidates is close to having a positive approval/opinion number. As of yesterday, 56.8% of Americans disapprove of Joe Biden and 53.2% have a negative opinion of DJT.
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