President Biden’s policy agenda is incredibly popular, much more popular than his opponent’s. But Biden the man? Not so much.

The question now is whom to blame for the approval gap between the president and his agenda: voters, the media or Biden himself.

Democrats have long argued that their policies are more popular than those of Republicans. In a recent blind test conducted by YouGov, that was unmistakably true. The polling organization asked Americans what they thought about major policies proposed by Biden and Donald Trump without specifying who proposed them. The idea was to see how the public perceived ideas when stripped of tribal associations.

Biden’s agenda was the winner, hands down.

Of the 28 Biden proposals YouGov asked about, 27 were supported by more people than opposed them. Impressively, 24 received support from more than 50 percent of respondents.

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    He’s only unpopular because of bots, trolls, and the likes of fox “news”. He’s what AMERICA needed after having a child with 34 felonies ruling by incompetence and revenge for four sad years.

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      hes mostly unpopular because the media dosnt cover 90% of the shit he does, and what they do cover they cover vaguely and don’t credit him, because the media is heavily invested in another trump win because trump winning brings in ratings as people tune in every day to see what new horror he has released upon society, like they did in his first term.

      Broadcast media has too much vested in a trump win to ever give biden appropriate coverage.

      Its why all teh coverage of the debate was “BIDEN OLD, MUST QUIT” and almost nothing about trumps lies or the CNN moderator just letting trump go.

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        the media dosnt cover 90% of the shit he does

        He is in the media spotlight constantly. If the President shits, we get news on it. And we have a plethora of friendly venues happy to report all the nice things Biden says he’s doing (until he gives up halfway through, because the Fifth Circuit court or a senior aid or a Senate Parliamentarian tells him to stop).

        But it’s not selling, because peoples’ material conditions aren’t improving. The Inflation Reduction Act didn’t improve the cost of living. The college loan forgiveness benefited less than 1% of student borrowers. The exhorbitant sums sent to Ukraine haven’t ended the war or even clawed back any territory. The climate isn’t getting any cooler.

        all teh coverage of the debate was “BIDEN OLD, MUST QUIT” and almost nothing about trumps lies

        The coverage could have been “Biden Slams Trump on His Many Lies”. But Biden didn’t do that because he’s a senile old coot.

        Oh gee! Why isn’t Rachel Maddow singing Joe Biden’s praises right now? Must be because she’s a Russian Bot who hates Democrats and America.

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      He’s only unpopular because of bots, trolls, and the likes of fox “news”.

      And a years-long campaign by Republicans to tap into people’s prejudices against old people. Never mind they’d struggle to name one actual policy position they’d disagree and haven’t bothered to learn of all the things they’d wholeheartedly support if they were just aware of them.

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      Imagine picking a Democratic candidate that can’t even handle the bullshit from fox news and then acting all surprised when his polls start to tank.

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      No. Dismissing criticism like this is exactly how you got here. People have been raising legitimate concerns for years. And then he decides to 100 percent support genocide of Palestinians during the campaign. Not even conditioning military aid on compliance with international law. Which has the same effect as starting an unpopular war.

      That debate was his last chance to convince undecided voters he still has 4 years of mental competency in him and he failed.

      This is what happens when you run a sham primary with a weak candidate.

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        The budget is allocated by Congress and must be dispensed as allocated by the executive branch. Biden could not legally stop the weapons going to Israel. How many times must this be repeated? I see you and others in every single political thread trying to lay dead Palestinian children at Biden’s feet. Biden doesn’t want any more Palestinians to be destroyed- he seems to be a fundamentally decent person. Even though I strongly dislike Biden as president and hate the government of Israel, we all know Trump would ramp up the genocide for his buddy Netanyahu. Are you going to keep playing dumb? It’s that fucking simple.

        Unless Biden steps away these are the choices. More, or less, genocide? Because it’s not going to stop until Israel decides it is done.

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          A. That’s not true, check out Trump’s last term for examples of not spending the money as Congress directed.

          B. There are laws expressly forbidding the disbursement of aid to regimes committing war crimes. The Leahy Law and Foreign Assistance Act. The bar is internally low as well, “credible evidence”. Anyone who has picked up a newspaper in the last six months has seen credible evidence.

          C. This is how you pressure politicians. Don’t tell us to vote for him because we can pressure him and then cry when we pressure him.

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      but what makes him qualified

      as a career politician what has he done to affect your life so much that y’all immediately want to suck him off so hard?

      was it the crime bills, the conservative far right immigration policies, his failed response to $7.25 minimum wage, was it women losing rights they have had for over half a century?

      or is it strictly because he is a democrat and likes the color blue?

      no the US does not need either of the two senile elders with mental decline

      yes that happens after a certain age and anyone who thinks these two are mentally capable or immune to laws of time have never had to take care an elder before

      Biden is 82 years old way past retirement and Trump is not far behind

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        What you’re not seeming to take into account is that every democrat I know has issues with Biden but since he is a career politician we know he’s capable of putting knowledgeable people in places he doesn’t have expertise in, which is what a competent leader does (which means I can’t even mention trump, doesn’t come close). The right doesn’t seem to understand you can get your ideas and policies across without full complete love and support for the candidate. He’s not the Dems supreme leader like the right has where everyone has to bow down, it’s a system and he’s just a head to rally behind while others get stuff done.

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        Hot take: that crime bill attack was always an interesting one to me.

        In Hillary’s election she got heavily criticized for supporting it while non-conservatives supported it, Biden wrote it, Bill Clinton signed it, Bernie Sanders voted for it. I was somewhat surprised this election when people actually remembered that Biden wrote it at all. I didn’t hear much about it in 2020.

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        The effective and qualified people he surrounds himself with. Sorry for the death of your argument. RIP