Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

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(01-28-2021, 09:39 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: on Executive Orders:

Mostly because nobody knows what they actually entail. They are all generic 'feel good' statements that people can sign on to that allow the administration to dissociate from any negative consequences.  If I asked someone 'are you in favor of Biden's policy to reduce scholarship opportunities for girls and give them to transwomen?' that there would be 83% approval.  Or if I asked, 'Do you support Biden throwing 80,000 people out of work with no plan to transition them to other jobs?'

Any polls coming out right now about Biden are complete and utter propaganda. They aren't seriously intended to measure whether people actually like anything, just to further a narrative into believing he has magically received a near universal mandate to implement his policies instead of just narrowly winning a vote based, primarily, on the fact that he wasn't Trump.  They are intentionally structured to elicit positive results because humans are social creatures so the first step is convincing them they are 'wrong' to feel how they do because they are in the minority.

Polls should never be taken at face value of anything other than the narrative being constructed unless you've really dug into the polling methodology.  The best way to read them, is to think about what result the entity promoting it or sponsoring it wants, and then consider the 'negative' responses (to the outcome, not the actual yes/no) as being the floor through which no amount of manipulation could pierce through.  Reading this, I would say the vast majority of the public is on board, at least philosophically, with anti-discrimination and economic measures aimed at the middle and working class.  There is still a solid 30-40% resistance to sweeping environmental legislation and immigration changes, though.