A new poll has recently come out from the Morning Consult and Politico, affirming that the new United States President Joe Biden has an approval rating of 62% with a disapproval rating of 33%. This analytical data poses great questions to be scrutinized in order to gather an explanation for its occurrence. In today’s divisive U.S. political climate, a 63% approval rating is exceptionally high, even for what is known to be considered the honeymoon period. When a president first takes office, he is often given what is called a Honeymoon Period: For a few months, the public, the media, and members of Congress tend to give the president the benefit of the doubt and treat him well. However, this honeymoon period is usually fairly short and often gives way to opposition and hostility. Yet, the key takeaway of this information should be focalized on the fact that Joe Biden has the political capital to effectively do whatever he pleases. This then leads to the questioning of whether his amount of political power at the moment would have an effect on the amount of issues he chooses to take on and leave alone, and how it would affect his numbers.
Additionally, a Quinnipiac University poll finds Biden’s average approval rating is 55% and his average disapproval rating is 39%, which makes for an average net approval rating of +16 points. Nothing ever seemed to shake Donald Trump’s job approval rating. It moved less than any other president in the polling era. So far, Biden’s proven to be even steadier than Trump. And very much unlike Trump, people seem to actually like what Biden is doing. Biden’s net approval rating a month ago stood at +18 points in an average of polls. That means his net approval has shifted by only 2 points in his first month in office. In Trump’s first month in office, his net approval rating fell considerably more. He actually started with a slightly positive net approval rating of +1 or +2 points, depending on how you averaged the polls. A month in, he was at about -7 points. Steadiness in the polls is nothing new for Biden. The size of his advantage over Trump in the national presidential polls during the 2020 campaign was the most consistent in polling history. There’s really no way of knowing how steady Biden’s approval rating will be over the next few months. But you can see how the formula Biden used during the 2020 campaign could work for him in the White House.
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