Democrats Were Lukewarm on Campaign Biden. They Love President Biden.Joe Biden never captured the hearts of Democratic voters in the way Barack Obama once did. But now that he is in office, he is drawing nearly universal approval from his party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/us/politics/biden-polls-approval-rating.html?smid=tw-share Joe Biden was never widely seen as capturing the hearts of Democratic voters in the way Barack Obama and Bill Clinton once did. For many of his supporters, he seemed simply like their best chance to defeat a president — Donald J. Trump — who inspired far more passion than he did.Yet in the first few months of his administration, Mr. Biden has garnered almost universal approval from members of his party, according to polls, emerging as a kind of man-for-all-Democrats after an election year riddled with intraparty squabbling.He began his term this winter with an approval rating of 98 percent among Democrats, according to Gallup. This represents a remarkable measure of partisan consensus — outpacing even the strongest moments of Republican unity during the presidency of Mr. Trump, whose political brand depended heavily on the devotion of his G.O.P. base. … (After 40 years as an ‘Independent’, I registeredas a Democrat to support Joe Biden. And,yeah, I still support him, enthusiastically.)
Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
@Fred, Ordinary Joe is the closest thing to Jimmy Stewart’s Mister Smith that we have had in my lifetime. My prayers go with him. My wife is fence sitting, raised in a conservative household in CT as she was. However, she alone among her siblings did not vote for Trump either time and did vote for Obama in 2008 at least. She also voted for Joe last November, but I fear that she would vote for Romney again were he to run in 2024. She worries about Harris being too liberal. We forged our relationship while our dads were dying of cancer. Had politics been more central to my life at the time that we met, then I would be single still.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/us/politics/biden-polls-approval-rating.html?smid=tw-share Joe Biden was never widely seen as capturing the hearts of Democratic voters in the way Barack Obama and Bill Clinton once did. For many of his supporters, he seemed simply like their best chance to defeat a president — Donald J. Trump — who inspired far more passion than he did.Yet in the first few months of his administration, Mr. Biden has garnered almost universal approval from members of his party, according to polls, emerging as a kind of man-for-all-Democrats after an election year riddled with intraparty squabbling.He began his term this winter with an approval rating of 98 percent among Democrats, according to Gallup. This represents a remarkable measure of partisan consensus — outpacing even the strongest moments of Republican unity during the presidency of Mr. Trump, whose political brand depended heavily on the devotion of his G.O.P. base. … (After 40 years as an ‘Independent’, I registeredas a Democrat to support Joe Biden. And,yeah, I still support him, enthusiastically.)
@Fred, Ordinary Joe is the closest thing to Jimmy Stewart’s Mister Smith that we have had in my lifetime. My prayers go with him. My wife is fence sitting, raised in a conservative household in CT as she was. However, she alone among her siblings did not vote for Trump either time and did vote for Obama in 2008 at least. She also voted for Joe last November, but I fear that she would vote for Romney again were he to run in 2024. She worries about Harris being too liberal. We forged our relationship while our dads were dying of cancer. Had politics been more central to my life at the time that we met, then I would be single still.