Karl Magnacca: No president is going to have approval above 50% for the foreseeable future.

Friendly reminder that Ronald Reagan was called senile so often it became a running gag on SNL and the late night shows. He then won 49 of 50 states in the 1984 election.

Friendly reminder that Reagan's approval ratings were above 50% the entire year of 1984, and in the upper 50s by June.

No president is going to have approval above 50% for the foreseeable future.

This is true, but only because no president will have any desire to try. I think a lot of people forget that Biden was extremely popular for his first 100 days

No desire to try? How does a normal president appeal to the kind of person who would vote for Trump?

well for one you don't actually need to, he's at ~40% favorability right now; the best way to win an election is to appeal to those who don't have a candidate yet that being said if you do want to appeal to trump voters he's winning on every issue except abortion right now so he could work on that

No he wasn’t? You can just look this stuff up: projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approv... High water mark was about 55%.

why can people on this site not read man I really don't get it

It's not exactly reasonable to expect universal agreement that 55% is "extremely popular"

I felt like the context made the implied "for an american president" / "compared to where he is now" pretty clear but fair enough

There are charts at the bottom comparing him to other presidents and he’s consistently the lowest besides Trump.

the presidency is apparently the only place where 55% gets you on the honor roll

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