In the past few weeks, President Biden’s job approval rating has dropped precipitously while his disapproval rating has risen sharply
amid concerns surrounding the delta variant of the coronavirus, the associated economic fallout from the pandemic and the ongoing withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
Just how much have things changed for Biden? A month ago, his approval rating stood at 52.7 percent and his disapproval rating sat at 42.7 percent, according to
FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker, for a net approval rating of +10.0 percentage points. But as of Thursday,
1 his approval rating stood at 47.1 percent and his disapproval rating at 47.0 percent, for a net approval rating of +0.1 points.
In an era of deep political polarization where
we rarely see big shifts in public opinion of presidents, this counts as a pretty big swing...