Sometimes polls are both accurate and say things you don’t like

On Tuesday, Pew Research Center published a poll that had unhappy news for President Biden. His approval rating had declined from 59 percent in April to 41 percent now, driven lower in large part by a decline in approval from Democrats from 95 percent to 76 percent. And that, in turn, was correlated to declines in Democrats’ confidence in Biden’s ability to handle the pandemic, make good decisions on the economy or bring the country together.

Obviously, most Democrats still view Biden positively. Just less so than before, including a decline in the percentage of members of his party who say they strongly approve of the job he’s doing. And particularly since this was a Pew poll — a firm with a strong track record carefully collecting the opinions of thousands of Americans — the finding was newsworthy. So I wrote about it.

And people got very annoyed. CONTINUED

Philip Bump, Washington Post


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