This week a number of new job approval polls came out (Gallup, Quinnipiac, and others), and the average gap in job approval just stubbornly does not get better for Biden, regardless the cheering of the media, pundits wish-casting a “Biden Surge” and talking up the “recovered economy” and so on. It’s not working.
Below is an update on what the numbers mean, against the last 50 years of 1st term presidents running for re-election. Today is day 1,193 for Biden in his presidency, and you can see how his net job approval compares with the presidents who have gone before him. As you can see from the chart, Biden must improve his numbers. But even presidents who were younger, and in their prime, struggled to change the narrative in the final six months. The election day net job approval only tends to change in the direction its already headed.
Chart created from data provided by 538: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/
–DW
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
69 responses to “Biden’s Job Approval woes Continue”
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Inflation.
Economy
Illegals
Gas prices.
$$$ to the Grifter
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Tina, the list could be long. Its death by 1000 cuts. Even ardent pro-choice people cannot fathom how an elderly woman in her 80s will now spend LIFE in prison for the crime of sitting out in front of an abortion clinic hold a protest sign.
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Or the granny that walked through the capitol on j6. But even the free passers want granny to be fried.
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Everyone posting here has said the J6 granny was overcharged.
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Who will celebrate more- Robbie if Biden wins or Putina if Ukraine surrenders?
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Putina
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BL, I am generally in favor of aid to Ukraine, but I also want to know what our strategy is. It is, to say the least, troubling that Biden has not addressed the nation about what the goal is in Ukraine (except to yell at Republicans during SOTU for not voting for aid yet). A prolonged war of attrition is not something we can financially support indefinitely. There has to be a strategy for ending the war. I know it won’t be easy, but we elect presidents to find solutions to these types of complex problems.
Once again, kind thanks for keeping this site running.
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“There has to be a strategy for ending the war.”
Biden would send his uncle over there to find out what’s going on, but its too bad he was eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea.
That’s the leadership we are going to get from Biden.
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There is no strategy.
There are no audits.
They have no clue who is getting the $ and who is pocketing the $.
Even the free passers know this. They are just too stupid to admit it.
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We know exactly who is ultimately getting the weapons – dead and wounded Russian soldiers, destroyed ships, and armor.
Tina does not care how many Ukrainians are killed, wounded, raped, kidnapped or enslaved by Putin. She doesn’t care the Russia’s military will establish based on all of Ukraine – moving hundreds of miles further into Europe and against NATO. Cold hearted.
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Tina should admit she doesn’t care what Putin does to Ukrainians. But she doesn’t have the guts to admit she is so cold.
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The free passers are too stupid to admit they are wrong on Ukraine. But they also fell for j 6 hoax and the Russia hoax.
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It’s one thing to support Ukraine’s aid package. But, to deny the fact this aid is primarily unmonitored is to live in La La Land. Chip Roy, who undoubtably has more knowledge about the aid distribution than anyone here, has already cited the majority of aid given has been unaccounted for. However, those here then discredit him as an “isolationist,” giving them excuses to continue living in the fantasy that “Ukrainian citizens” are the ones being helped, not Ukrainian officials profiteering off of our tax dollars.
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Ukrainian war fatigue is something overlooked by people wanting to infuse the conflict with more money. Nonetheless, civilians are fleeing the country to escape the front line killing fields.
“A lot is written every single day about how overpowered the Ukrainians are in their fight against the ever-strengthening Russian Federation forces.
But now, the most pressing issue of the absolute lack of manpower by the Kiev regime is coming to the forefront of public opinion.
About a million military-age males have fled the Ukrainian territory seeking to avoid military service which has become in many ways a death sentence.
Not only that, but as much as 100 thousand troops have reportedly deserted their positions”
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Wrong for opposing Putin’s invasion? You are truly sick and sad.
Nobody here believed in the Russian collusion. People really did trespass at the Capitol on January 6th. The non-violent ones were overcharged. How sad it must be to be you.
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The aid is overwhelmingly military equipment. You know that. You and Tina are really battling to be HHR Clown now.
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Who brought on the war fatigue? Putin.
Why won’t you answer how many dead Ukrainians will be enough for you. Your talk of negotiations is nonsense. Putin will accept nothing less than all of Ukraine. He has said it.
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”The aid is overwhelmingly military equipment. You know that”
You don’t know, Bitter, anything about how much military equip is involved in that aid – only taking nuanced word from those peddling the aid package.
Regarding dead Ukrainians that are acceptable – none as far as I’m concerned. However, for you, it doesn’t seem to matter as long as a win can be accomplished by a country whose populace is being forced to fight.
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Jan, a vast amount of the aid is in the form of equipment, not cash. As well, from that equipment a vast majority is American equipment, which means jobs for Americans, tax revenue for America, increases sales for American companies, as all that equipment, once “sold” to the Ukraine, needs to be rebuilt.
I do know this from first hand experience.
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Lol, means shortages for stuff we need for our military.
and inflation across the board for at worst, Ukraine to give up a lot of territory vs at best for Ukraine to give up a little territory (as what was proposed early pre invasion before the Uk blob got involvrd.
The warmongers saw $$$.
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Vic, I asked you this question earlier – do you work for the arms industry?
Also, making equipment for war purposes is an economic reason generically used to “promote” war. I’ve read it will take the US years to build and replace many of the armaments given to Ukraine, digging into our own reserves to do so including ammunition. We also don’t have the manufacturing capability we once had to readily produce more armaments, leaving us more vulnerable should we need munitions for our own needs – a possibility that is not unreasonable considering the volatility now present world-wide.
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Tina, we won’t have shortages. A lot of the weapons that are heading there have already been in stock for quite some time, and would need to be replaced eventually, sooner rather than later.
The problem we face is that what do we do. Give up on the Ukraine and then allow Russia to establish foothold in what was supposed to be the buffer between them and NATO? I understand people are concerned about the amount of money we have spent, and where it could have been used, but a. that money was NEVER going to the border. That is a direct line from the border to the ballot box for Dems, and they are never going to willingly give that up. b. see a over and over again. The Dems do not want a safe border, they want to dilute all the voting power they can in Red states.
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Jan. I think the best answer to your question is that Im confident in my response.
As for us being low and unprepared, I disagree. There is no widescale shooting war that we are going to be involved in within the next 12-24 months that we could not have sufficient armaments to be effective.
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I am so tired of this argument. PUTIN INVADED BECAUSE HE WANTED TO INVADE. BORIS JOHNSON AND JOE BIDEN DID NOT FORCE THAT KGB KILLER TO INVADE.
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Vic, your “best” answer answered my question.
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And who are your sources? How many yachts does Zelensky own? Remember when you fell for that Russian lie?
As I said, the proof of the aid’s effectiveness is Russian casualties. Or do you think the Russian troops were killed by bags of money falling on their heads? The ships sank because big bags of quarters were dropped on them?
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Why do you want Ukraine to surrender?
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The US did not have a secure border between Biden’s inauguration and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Yet, Jan and Tina think the border is not secure because of military aid to Ukraine.
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BL, I am generally in favor of aid to Ukraine, but I also want to know what our strategy is.”
Easy answer.
Our strategy should be to keep the Russians from annexing Ukraine as part of Putin’s declared plan for a “greater Russia” (aka new USSR).
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Poor Putin. He didn’t want to invade Ukraine but he was forced to by England and the US. Do you think the arms merchants were the Jews?
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George Soros, Maoist fund Columbia’s anti-Israel tent city (nypost.com)
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Speaking of self-hating Jews…..Soros.
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Jews are no different from everyone else. For some people ideology trump everything else. Look at “Catholic” Biden.
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Greg Price
@greg_price11
On Howard Stern’s show today, Biden claimed… – He saved 6 people from drowning as a lifeguard (Lie) – He received “salacious pictures” from women in the 70s that he handed to Secret Service (Definitely a lie and senators don’t have secret service protection) – That he was arrested as a kid while standing with a black family on their porch as people were protesting desegregation. (Lie) – That he was “runner-up in state scoring” in football. (Lie)
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The free passers will have to unscramble Biden’s interview with Coward Sterno.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bank-failures-begin-again-phillys-republic-first-seized-fdic
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Nobody at HHR is voting for Biden. But once Tina comes up with a stupid nickname or idea, she won’t stop.
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Deflection.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/worst-70-years-biden-approval-rating-absolutely-dismal
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Free passers will be baited by the article on dementeds approval rate.
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Finally got around to adding the Senate polling grid, showing the current polling average for the competitive races and where 51 seats is reached.
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Zzzzzzzzzzz
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huge advance – figured out how to make it so you can click on MD in the senate grid, and it will take you directly to the senate polls on the Maryland Polls page. Now I just need to load in tables for the polls of the other states with competitive senate races, and create those links too.
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Being less than high tech myself, I admire what you’re doing DW to add to and ease the access to polling data.
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Great Job DW. I think a lot of people are overlooking how important the Senate is. I think there is an outside chance to get Murkowski et al proof in this election if things fall correctly
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DW – MD gets us to 51, not 50. I think you forgot that WV is, or will be, in the R column bringing us to 50.
TX is not even close to being in play, even with Ted Cruz who is a good conservative, just not all that likeable. Race wont be closer than 8 points.
Im surprised at the OH number. I think Brown is in serious trouble there and that could flip easier than other states.
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Hi Vic,
WV gets us to 50, presuming TX is not in play.
But for now I show TX as in play due to the polling average. So with TX not part of the 50, its WV getting us to 49, and MD getting us to 50, and TX to 51.
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Is Tina still giving the Mother of all RINOS Donald Trump a free pass?
How about war criminal “Pooty Poot”?
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Is Tina still giving conspiracy theory garbage sites like Gateway Pundit and Zerohedge a pass?
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Vic,
The OH numbers will improve, remember that the current polling was all done during a hotly contested GOP primary.
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J6 Antifa protester get 7 years.
I hope that is alright with Tina and Janzam, but maybe he is just another “victim” who was “coerced” and “invited” to attack police officers, trespass the Capitol, destroy public property and steal personal and private property.
Maybe they want to give him a pass too, right?
“John Sullivan, aka JaydenX, a 29-year-old from Utah, was sentenced on Friday for his role in instigating the January 6 Capitol riot. He’s been in custody since his conviction in 2023 on five felony and two misdemeanor charges for obstructing the joint session of Congress, civil disorder, and carrying a knife into the U.S. Capitol.
The government sought a seven-year prison sentence, one of the longer terms handed down to January 6 defendants. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth sentenced Sullivan to 72 months, or six years, in prison, and three years of supervised release. Sullivan will also pay $2,0000 in restitution, and Sullivan will lose approximately $90,000 in profits he made selling footage of the riot.
Sullivan, who pretended to support Trump while being a leftist activist with ties to Antifa and BLM, made statements revealing his true intentions, saying, “I brought my megaphone to instigate s***” and to “make those Trump supporters f*** s*** up.” The government argued that Sullivan went to the Capitol with the “goal of inciting the crowd,” and to “foment anarchy.”
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I have long oppose Noem as VP pick, I think she is a lightweight that brings nothing to the table.
But do I care that she had to shoot her dog for what seems like good reasons?
It is easy to have your dog euthanized. Shooting him is harder.
So no, I don’t care.
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I feel sorry for people who claim they were incited to riot. It presents 2 choices – They are so incredibly stupid they could be tricked into doing something they did not want to do OR they are lying and think we are stupid enough to believe them.
Once again, the only people responsible for the actions of the protesters was the the protestors. They were solely responsible but also overcharged.
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Breaking News – Nobody incited me to protest, trespass, or riot today.
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The J6 example used, John Sullivan, was one of a handful of provocateurs on site at the J6 protest. In his case he was an Antifa linked guy, traveling to DC to make trouble, and selling his riot footage for profit to the media. Sullivan was far afield, though, from representing the majority of people honestly protesting an election full of controversial irregularities. Furthermore, there are still people jailed for 3 + years awaiting trial mainly based on “trespassing.” Between the time these people have been in jail, without any due process, other rioters, BLM members, violent border crossers etc have been jailed and then immediately released without consequences. The bland outcry here to the governmental overreach and injustices being committed in their own American backyard is stunning.
Rather, all support goes to a flagging country incrementally becoming a dictator- type nation, filled with civilians too afraid to protest lest they be imprisoned themselves – one whose parents spend what they can to get their military age children out of the country to avoid conscription.
In the meantime:
”While the new US military aid package will diminish the firepower disparity against Kiev in the short run, and the new mobilization laws will diminish the dire lack of ‘human resources’ in the long run, the collapsing morale of the troops seems to have no antidote in sight.
Meanwhile, Russia advances. Fast.”
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Yes, come pick up your boxes. We did not plant anything in them.
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Jan is giddy about Putin’s upbeat prospects. Disgusting.
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MIKE JOHNSON NEEDS TO COME CLEAN! Latest Report Reveals Democrats, Speaker Johnson, RINOs and Joe Biden Secretly Sent LONG-RANGE MISSILES to Ukraine to Fire into Russia to Expand Doomed War – WAR ROOM REACTS! via gatewaypundit
https://x.com/gatewaypundit/status/1784361827926745348
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Rep. Andy Biggs on $60 Billion Ukraine Aid Bill: Speaker Johnson “Put Together a Coalition with Democrats,” We Could Solve Southern Border Crisis “With Just a Fraction of The Money”
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Zzzzzzzzz Expand doomed war? Those damn Ukrainians daring to fight back.
Of course, no condemnation of Putin by Jan and Putina for starting the war.
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Students hold mock executions outside the Boden white house correspondence dinner this evening.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1784373260399845406
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Zzzzzzzzzz We could give Biden $1 trillion and he won’t spend a penny on border security.
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Watching a broadcast of Reagan’s first press conference in April 1981. Masterful.
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from representing the majority of people honestly protesting an election full of controversial irregularities.”
I agree that most people at the Jan 6 rally were “honestly protesting”.
Unfortunately some of them engaged in criminal behavior by assaulting police officers, trespassing in the Capitol, destroying public property, and stealing public and personal property.
Many were overcharged, but the “they were coerced” to engage in criminal behavior is of course a huge crock of crap.
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oe Biden Secretly Sent LONG-RANGE MISSILES to Ukraine”
It is so “secret” even Bunu knows about it.
Of course we should sent Ukraine long range missiles. The Russians are firing long range missiles at Ukraine on a daily basis.
GFY.
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I cannot fathom what is so hard to understand about this. If you want to secure the border, then you must elect Trump to the presidency. There is NO OTHER WAY. You could authorize Biden to spend, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 on the border, and he would not actually spend one penny to improve the border security.
So there is NO POINT to all these stupid calls for border spending until Trump becomes the president.
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New thread
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