Pomp and circumstance returned just in time for President Biden to deliver an outstanding State of the Union address (SOTU) yesterday. … While it was a great speech, don’t overestimate its likely impact. Rarely do State of the Union speeches yield significant or lasting effect on presidents’ approval ratings. While […] Read more »
What Biden’s State of the Union Speech Was For
President Joe Biden sought to repair Americans’ faith in his leadership with a forceful State of the Union address last night that portrayed him as a resolute champion of financially squeezed families at home and freedom abroad. … The speech was the performance of a president who remains confident in […] Read more »
Biden enters first State of the Union with second lowest approval on record
President Joe Biden gives his first State of the Union address at a time of international upheaval. Polling shows that Americans don’t trust Biden when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s the latest manifestation of how American satisfaction with Biden and the direction of the country have turned […] Read more »
How Does a War in Europe Impact Biden at Home?
It has been almost 80 years since the world witnessed a land war in Europe. As such, we should be cautious about making broad pronouncements of what Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will mean to the current world order. We also shouldn’t assume we know how Americans will respond and react, […] Read more »
Foreign Policy Unlikely To Save Democrats in the Fall
… While we don’t know the trajectory that the Russia/Ukraine crisis will take, and there are many factors that can impact on midterm elections, we do know that in the absence of a large number of U.S. military deaths, Americans rarely vote on foreign-policy issues, particularly in midterms. The state […] Read more »
Former Biden, Trump Pollsters Discuss the 2022 Midterms at IOP Forum
A pair of top political pollsters said Tuesday that the fast-moving foreign policy crisis in Ukraine and the uncertain trajectory of Covid-19 in the United States have cast uncertainty over the 2022 midterm elections, which will shape the latter half of President Joe Biden’s first term. The pollsters — John […] Read more »