President Biden saw his highest approval rating since November on Monday, ticking up to 43 percent. A new poll from the Financial Times and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business…
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Biden coasted to victory in 2020

    What?

    Are you talking about popular vote? That sadly doesn’t matter.

    Biden won a handful of states by razor thin margins, which got him the presidency. And it took his campaign spending a literal billion dollars to accomplish that

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/politics/2020-election-trump-biden-closest-states/index.html

    And he’s less popular now… Not just nationwide, but in state polling for those states.

    We don’t live in a direct democracy, so you have to look kinda close to see what’s happening.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Biden won a handful of states by razor thin margins

      Biden’s margins improved substantially from election day, as the mail-in ballots filled up the vote count. Pennsylvania’s margin grew by 80,000 votes from the razor thin win he had when polls closed. He won states Democrats hadn’t taken since the 1970s. He nearly swept the Midwest, with the tipping point state of his win being Wisconsin.

      And he’s less popular now… Not just nationwide, but in state polling for those states.

      Oh yeah. He’s absolutely fucked now. Very real chance he loses in a landside in 2024 as all of those Obama-Trump-Biden states flip back into Trump’s column.