The survey found that just one in four voters (24%) think the country is moving in the right direction – a key question in the run-up to a national election – and more than twice as many voters said that Biden’s policies had personally hurt them than those who said they had helped.
Of the two-thirds of the country that feels the nation is headed in the wrong direction, the poll found that 63% said they would vote for Trump.
In the Bloomberg survey, a large share of the respondents voiced concerns with Biden’s age and a significant percentage said Trump was dangerous, and suggested the number of “double haters”, as pollsters call voters who approve of neither candidate, is significant.
Most folks are going to say “the country is moving in the wrong direction.” That’s just a natural outcome of having a centrist (center-right by EU standards) as President in a highly polarized political climate.
Progressives want more social services. Conservatives want to own the libs.
While I would vote for someone more progressive if I had the choice, honestly a centrist may be good to just cool things down. Though Biden hasn’t been great at that either.
I think the biggest issue is simply that the struggling post-covid economy is blamed on Biden. Therefore people feel personally hurt by his policies.
Compare that to Trump who may have hurt a lot of people. But a majority felt unaffected personally. (I’m not an activist. I’m not trans. I’m not getting an abortion. I don’t know the people coming across the border. I wasn’t at the Capitol. Etc.)
I wasn’t all that optimistic about a Biden presidency but he has actually accomplished a lot, in spite of a hostile Republican house, that the so-called media ignores. People in foreign countries understand this better than the average American who is quit ignorant about US politics. In fact, I hear more Putin/Republican talking points at the local sweat shop.
“Bernie would be a centrist in Europe!” Says the American,
“The fuck is this moron smoking?” says the AfD voter
] While I would vote for someone more progressive if I had the choice, honestly a centrist may be good to just cool things down. Though Biden hasn’t been great at that either.
I just wanted to say - how many times should this experiment be repeated before we figure out that no, centrist politicians to cool things down with the right doesn’t work? You’re just moving the Overton window further and further right, making it increasingly harder for leftist politicians to actually make progress.
We need more party’s that are economically left but also have the right views that people want individually, like people seem to care about immigration yet the left pretends people don’t. Though the right just pretends to care, which isn’t very helpful either.