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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    4 months ago

    It might not but since you effectively have a binary choice, which Israeli policy do you prefer, Bidens or Trump.

    if it’s really a tie, then start looking at the other policies to see which is the lesser of the two evils.

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      4 months ago

      This whole goddamned news cycle is about how we don’t have a binary choice. Or more accurately we could have a different binary choice. Biden isn’t locked in. If the primary argument to vote is “Trump is worse”, then it’s not important that Biden be the candidate on the other side.