"The articles about the CNN poll concentrate on the 56% who do not approve of anything Biden has done during his presidency.
"The buried lede: 57% of Americans consider Biden’s first year in office a failure.
"It doesn’t surprise me because the “disapprove” column came out on top for every question:
When Biden loses CNN they hit the bottom. This generally pro-Biden article does not approve of Donald Trump yet rates him higher than Biden.
The sense of turmoil was captured in a new CNN/SSRS poll released Thursday that showed waning faith in US elections and found that most of the nearly 60% of Americans who disapprove of how Biden is handling his presidency were unable to name one single thing they like that he has done. "He's not Donald Trump. That's pretty much it," one despondent respondent said. Another answered: "I really like his new cat, Willow Biden.". . .
. . ."But Biden may also have done too little to rally the nation behind him. He lacks the steadying and sunny confidence of President Franklin Roosevelt, who piloted his nation through the great crises of the Great Depression and World War II. Some Americans also saw the ambition of Biden's social spending plan as a betrayal of the moderate image he had cultivated on the campaign trail. The pandemic's refusal to loosen its grip over the first year of his presidency hammered his reputation for competence. The US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which should have been a political winner, was instead a parable of presidential incompetence when it descended into bloody chaos. High inflation has been responsible for ending countless political careers in the last century, and the White House's repeatedly wrong comments downplaying the seriousness of price hikes for basic goods haven't helped." . . .
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