With the midterm elections just six months away, things aren’t looking good for Democrats. Vote notes that 30 Democrats in the House of Representatives will not seek re-election, with one of them stating that the party “faces extinction”. A poll released Sunday shows support for President Joe Biden is frail in the state he won in a landslide in the 2020 presidential election.
Questionnaire released this week conducted by the University of Suffolk and The Boston Globe showed that 46 percent of voters said they approved of Biden’s performance as president. An additional 46 percent of voters said they disagreed. Only 7 percent were undecided. voters. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Thirty-seven percent of voters aged 18-35 approved of Biden’s candidacy for president. Forty-seven percent said this was not the case. Fifty percent of voters aged 36 to 45 said they disapproved of Biden’s job performance.
By political party, 95 percent of Republicans surveyed disapprove of Biden’s job performance. Fifty-three percent of independents disapprove of Biden’s actions.
Forty-seven percent of white voters, 48 percent of black voters, and 42 percent of Latino voters approve of Biden’s performance as president.
In a statement shared via Boston GlobeDavid Paleologos, director of the University of Suffolk Center for Policy Research, said the poll results are a preview of the 2022 midterm elections.
“If you are technically underwater in Massachusetts, that sends a powerful signal to the country,” Paleologos said.
“When independents in Massachusetts are so negative about the departure of an incumbent Democratic president who won that state, one wonders what an independent voter from a swing state in Ohio, Nevada or New Hampshire thinks,” Paleologos added. “This poses a real midterm election challenge for Democrats.”
