Poll: majority now believe that Joe Biden is kind of an idiot
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President Joe Biden's presidency is not going as smoothly as he probably hoped it would.
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Only 43% of respondents in a survey conducted between Sept. 13-19 believe the phrase "mentally sharp" describes Biden "well."
This represents an 11-point drop from March, when Pew found 54% of respondents said "mentally sharp" was a fitting descriptor for the president.
On top of the border crisis, cratering approval numbers, infighting among congressional Democrats, incompetent federal health officials bumbling their way through the coronavirus pandemic, and the chaotic, disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan, there's also a growing consensus the president is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, according to new Pew Research Center polling data.
A majority of respondents in Pew's most recent survey (56%) said "mentally sharp" either describes him "not at all well" or "not too well."
As if the steep decline in public opinion of the president's smarts was not embarrassing enough, it turns out Biden's mental acuity specifically is where Pew found the sharpest drop in all of his polled personal characteristics.
"Positive evaluations of several of Biden's personal traits and characteristics have shown similar decreases," Pew reports. "Compared with March, fewer adults say Biden cares about people like them, and fewer describe him as standing up for his beliefs, honest, a good role model and mentally sharp."
It adds, "Biden receives his least positive assessments for being mentally sharp. Currently, 43% say this describes Biden very or fairly well, an 11-point decline since March."
Put more simply, the longer the president is in office, the dumber people think he is. And it's likely not because of any single issue. The White House is the major leagues, as a former vice president, of all people, ought to know. His every move and action is now under scrutiny. He has to think on his feet and respond in real-time to real-life crises. The public can see now how Biden comports himself as the commander in chief. It's not just a theoretical game anymore. He can't just promise to do better than the last guy. He is actually expected to deliver, and to deliver competently and efficiently.
So far, the public apparently isn't impressed.
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I bet the WH is in a tizzy, trying to figure out how to stop the bleeding before the midterms.
According to our local "expert" we shouldn't count on the mid terms. You know the old stick your fingers in your ears and yell la la la la la la la.
Tunnel vision and wishful thinking ...........and stupid.
Was the Trump administration "in a tizzy" when those who actually knew and worked for the Donald had such a low view of him?
He's “like an 11-year-old child”— Steve Bannon.
Working with Trump is “like trying to figure out what a child wants”—White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh
“The White House has become an adult day care center”—Republican senator Bob Corker of Tennessee
“Morally unfit to be president,” “unethical” and “untethered to truth”—former FBI director James Comey, who also compared the US president to a mafia boss.
“Less a person than a collection of terrible traits” "an idiot surrounded by clowns" and he's "dumb as shit" —Trump’s former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn.
He's "a fucking moron" - former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
"An idiot with the intelligence of a kindergartner" - former National Security advisor HR McMasters
He's "an idiot" - former chief of staff John Kelly
It's rather funny that conservatives would be clamoring to ridicule our current President because of a poll of people that don't know him personally and aren't ever in the same room with him that think he's "kind of an idiot" when nearly every person who actually got to know the former President that most conservatives voted for thought of him as a moronic petulant kindergartner. Personally I'd take the "kind of an idiot" over moronic petulant kindergartner every time.
[This comment stands. There are other comments about Trump, including some made by the seeder. If those are on topic, so is this one.]
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You'll need to ask Trump or members of his Administration.
Do you think that Trump is the topic of this article?
Pro tip:
he isn't.
A poll which is a snapshot in time of whether a President is an "idiot" or not invites comparisons to former Presidents. Approval ratings are compared, policies are compared, and even idiocy can be compared. Trying to pretend that this poll should be viewed in a void without any other Presidential comparisons is moronic. It would be like trying to compare chili pepper heat with only one pepper. How can you determine how hot it is? By just saying "Well right now, without tasting any other peppers, 56% of people say this pepper is the hottest"?
But biden supporters and voters are immune to criticism here unlike Trump supporters and voters who are fair game for whatever comes to the minds of our domestic political opposition.
Wonder how many think he is just a full blown idiot as opposed to kind of an idiot
It's impossible to tell based on the poll data since the term 'idiot' wasn't actually used in the questions. But hey, making up bullshit is the RW way...
She didn't say anything about the poll.
We know President Biden is not an idiot. We know who must have been polled to reach that bogus conclusion.
Some folks are dreaming about the midterms (or in serious denial)! Dream on!
Opinions on that will vary
That’s for sure! I’m all in that he is an idiot.
You and what other person?
Being gullible isn't a good trait.
I will be here the day after the midterms--will you??
He may not be a total idiot, but he has certainly so far not proved himself up to the task regardless of what many Democrats think.
Idiots don't think Idiots are idiots.
Lmao!
Exactly! You said it so perfectly well and you are 100% correct.
The majority now seems to regret voting for Biden.
Hopefully, we can rein him in after the midterm shellacking the Dems will get.
yeah, good luck with that, after the orange menace finishes off splitting the republican party in two. bummer.
Don't need luck when history is on your side.
A shellacking it will be, and be sure to come by for a healthy serving of crow the day after the midterms!
Say, do you want fries with your crow?
The majority of us do not regret voting for Joe. They seem to think were going to take a shellacking in the midterms. If I was a betting person I would lay good money on that not being the case
See 5.2, no doubt that the majority of Democrats don't regret their vote but I think the majority of the rest of America does....
And there is a better than average possibility you would lose your money.
So you're saying that more than half of Americans would vote for Trump if they could vote again, even though he tried to steal the election , incited a riot at the national capitol, tried to extort votes from the Georgia Secretary of State, and lied about the election for 10 months running.
Wow.
Our country must be more fucked than anyone realizes.
The trumpturd supporters, yes
Sane reasonable intelligent decent people, no. We don't support steaming piles of shit like whatshisname
Did you see the Woodward and Costa interview on the Late Show Tuesday?
They stated that whatshisname and his supporters are the problem. They are the peril that remains.
The big lie and those who believe it and support that worthless steaming pile of shit are the problem.
It's a global problem.
No that's not what I said.
Inside Biden's falling poll numbers: 5 reasons why the president's approval ratings have dropped (msn.com)
Yes, and history tells us that doesn't bode well for the President's party in the midterms.
Might be as high as a 40 seat swing in the House.
But we need only 5.
And some red states added seats through the census while some blue states lost some.
Easy-peasy.
Great post! One that the democrats can’t respond to.
Let’s go for 60 seats!
... in the mess hall at club fed.
Where is THAT data in the poll Tex?
some of us have the ability to read and surmise from that reading.
Some of us prefer FACTS over fantasy.
if you have something to say about the topic, I would like to read it.
I asked you a question about the topic. As per your practice, you ignored it.
BTW Tex. you know that the seed cited in the poll doesn't say anything about Biden being an idiot right?
I can't help anyone that has to be told Biden is an idiot.
I don't need any help to recognize deflection Tex.
You know that the headline of your seed is bullshit. Just admit it.
I said I couldn't help anyone who doesn't know the difference. I said nothing about deflecting.
I'll let you worry over the words in the headlines.
the article is spot on.
Actually you didn't Tex. Why lie?
No, you deflected.
Oh I never expected you to have an issue with the headline of your seed being a lie Tex.
No Tex, it's a bias RW interpretation of ONE data point in a Pew survey with a bunch of unrelated blather tacked on. In short, typical of RW discourse.
if you have to be told that Biden is an idiot, I can't help you, nor am I interested in your opinion of the headline or article.
Wow, what a difference a day makes:
Yep, after reading your inane posts, I changed my mind.
Not interested in more bullshit.
My posts stating that the headline of your seed is a lie is neither insane nor bullshit Tex. Any member can review the actual poll can prove that to themselves.
The fact that your seed is predicated by a lie illustrates an utter lack of credibility.
More inane bullshit.
Thanks, I have had enough if it from you.
Not bullshit Tex. I invite 'our readers' to judge for themselves.
Oh and I will post as I please.
All bullshit, all the time.
Sure, you can post, no one said otherwise.
I don't care, I can ignore them!
And not have the last word?
There are a couple of interesting things about the seeding of the article.
First of all, the seeded link isnt there anymore. It seems MSN took the article down.
Secondly, the article , which originated on the Washington Examiner, a right wing newspaper, is an opinion piece, hence the inflammatory headline.
Normally, news articles that report poll results dont editorialize or categorize poll results in the manner this article does. There was no poll question about Biden being an idiot, that is the writers language.
So first of all, there is now no link for the article, and the actual article is an opinion piece and is so labeled by the Washington Examiner, but on NT is it is labeled incorrectly as NEWS.
Majority now believe that Joe Biden is kind of an idiot: Poll | Washington Examiner
I will fix that for accuracy.
I don't either. That's why I already have him on ignore and have had for months.
And??????
Great plan.
Which I will most cheerfully adopt!
And ............. you mislabeled the seed. And........ MSN , your source, has taken the article down, perhaps because it is such an inaccurate headline.
Maybe you were sleepwalking when you seeded it.
I don't regret voting for him. He's certainly not perfect, but I knew that going in. He is generally a calming, non-threatening presence, and we need that in the WH. Trump spent the majority of his time as president intentionally antagonizing half the country. It's time for that bullshit to stop.
As I've said often, I'm a big fan of gridlock. Gridlock ensures that the stupid, highly partisan legislation gets filtered out and only the things upon which the grownups agree get passed. I was disappointed to see both Georgia senate seats go the way they did, especially without a recount given that the margin between victory and runoff for Perdue was less than 10k votes.
On current performance, I think Democrats have a lot of work to do if they hope to maintain a majority in either chamber. So with any luck gridlock will soon be restored. In the meantime, we'll have to rely on the Sane Center coalition to keep anything too stupid from happening.
Jack, you stated my POV very well. I have zero regrets. I'm hoping that this country pulls aways from extremism and pulls more into the center.
Same here. My hope for Biden was that he would serve his single term behaving as a president (i.e. being presidential) and working on boring but necessary initiatives such as true physical infrastructure.
Unfortunately Biden is not doing this and is (not surprisingly given the nature of partisan politics) seeking massive spending, opening the border, etc.
Gridlock is our friend given the scarcity of altruistic, responsible statespersons and abundance of opportunistic career politicians.
“kind of an idiot”? He was a complete idiot before his brain was swiss cheesed by old age. Now he is 110% full blown idiot
Kind of? He’s a complete and total idiot. He’s incompetent.
Yeah well, when one polls idiots the outcome is usually reflective of those polled. Sounds to me like 'the red state runs' if you get the drift.
oh, so bad poll numbers just means idiots were polled?
sure explains a lot of the last 5 years.
Great article! So good that real cleat politics listed it today
To the contrary, the majority know for a fact that those who believe Joe Biden is an idiot are idiots.
Pee Wee Herman defense, eh?
Outstanding!
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