Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

[David Horn]

(03-29-2021, 04:00 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: There was a poll done recently in Georgia about who believed what.  Most Republican believed in the Big Lie.  Most Republicans beloved there was a love fest at the capitol on January 6.  In short, Earth Two is alive and well among those that get their news from Republican leaning sources.  Most Republican politicians have no choice but to avoid being primaried by going along with it.

I don't think it will work.  Almost by definition, those that are still listening to Republican sources are still Republicans.  The number of Republicans are going down.  If you choose to win the primary, which you almost have too, the general election will get you.  Traditionally the party that holds the White House gains power in the mid term elections, but will the people really vote not to solve the crisis problems?  If it is crystal clear that obstruction is holding up Biden's agenda, will they gain voters by being obstructionists?  Are the Republicans going to hold on to obstruction obviously enough that the Democrats can kill the filibuster and get much of their agenda through anyway?

That doesn't mean things are not on a hair's edge.  If one Democrat wants something, he can hold anything on the legislative agenda hostage.

One of my daydreams is that Harris publicly announces she will not vote for the Democrats if the public is not backing a bill big time.  If the Republican want to be partisan, so be it, but if the people want something to pass she will stay with the people.

I don't know that it will break the partisan desire of the Republicans to vote against the interests of the people who are electing them, but maybe?

It seems that Biden learned the lesson of 'too little, too late' and is working on a consistent pattern of big wins with Democrats alone.  The infrastructure bill will prove that true or not, because it has to pass.  If the GOPpers have no intention of building things for their constituents, as I suspect, then Biden will bless abandoning the filibuster (or forcing it to the floor as a speak-a-thon), and pass it with Dems alone.  If it plays that way, the Republicans are dead for the next cycle.

Let's see who and how many play chicken with their political futures this time. Bets? Anyone?