President Biden’s overall approval rating stands at 44% this week

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This week’s Ipsos’ Core Political illustrates President Biden’s waning support among Republicans and independents on specific issues as his overall approval rating stands at 44% this week.

The majority of Americans (58%) continue to believe the country is off on the wrong track. This is particularly true among Republicans (81%) and independents (63%), but about two in five (38%) of Democrats believe it as well. CONTINUED

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One in four Democrats say their own party failed to make use of its power

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One in four U.S. Democrats say their party did not take full advantage of its grip on the White House and Congress last year, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, in a troubling sign for their voters’ enthusiasm in this year’s congressional elections. …

The poll, conducted online Jan. 31-Feb. 8, found 28% of Democrats said their party was unable to get things done last year because they were too busy fighting each other or lacked resolve. Forty-seven percent blamed Republicans for blocking Democratic efforts and only 25% said the party had been able to accomplish most of its goals. CONTINUED

Jason Lange, Reuters

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GOP culture war attacks ‘alarmingly potent,’ DCCC warns

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… The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is recommending a new strategy to endangered members and their teams, hoping to blunt the kinds of GOP attacks that nearly erased their majority last election and remain a huge risk ahead of November. In presentations over the past two weeks, party officials and operatives used polling and focus group findings to argue Democrats can’t simply ignore the attacks, particularly when they’re playing at a disadvantage. A generic ballot of swing districts from late January showed Democrats trailing Republicans by 4 points, according to the polling. CONTINUED

Sarah Ferris & Ally Mutnick, Politico

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California: Festering problems plaguing the state are weighing down Newsom’s standing with voters, as concerns about Covid recede

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The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds California voters now hold a more critical view of the job Gavin Newsom is doing as governor than they did immediately prior to his successful defeat of last year’s recall election. According to the poll, 48% of the state’s registered voters approve of the Governor’s performance overall, while 47% disapprove.

These ratings compare to more positive appraisals found by the poll in July and September of last year, when 50% approved and 42% disapproved, and are significantly lower than was found in September 2020, when Newsom received a 64% approval rating from the state’s voters.

Contributing to voters’ more mixed assessment of the Governor are growing concerns of how Newsom is handling several festering problems, such as homelessness and crime, that are now plaguing the state. CONTINUED

Mark DiCamillo, Berkeley IGS Poll

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Washington, D.C.: About 3 in 4 residents support vaccine rules Bowser just rescinded, poll finds

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About three-quarters of D.C. residents support the city’s vaccine requirement to enter certain businesses, a policy that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) ended Tuesday.

The citywide Washington Post poll finds 74 percent of residents support D.C.’s requirement to show proof of vaccination before going inside restaurants, gyms, concert venues and sports arenas. Most D.C. residents also say Bowser’s restrictions on residents and businesses have been “about right.” CONTINUED

Justin Wm. Moyer, Emily Guskin & Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post

Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Other Groups Declines

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Americans’ confidence in groups and institutions has turned downward compared with just a year ago. Trust in scientists and medical scientists, once seemingly buoyed by their central role in addressing the coronavirus outbreak, is now below pre-pandemic levels.

Overall, 29% of U.S. adults say they have a great deal of confidence in medical scientists to act in the best interests of the public, down from 40% who said this in November 2020. Similarly, the share with a great deal of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests is down by 10 percentage points (from 39% to 29%), according to a new Pew Research Center survey. CONTINUED

Pew Research Center

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