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[Machiavellian]

sundin13 said:

Jaicee said:

Well it's now been just over six months since Joe Biden was sworn in as president. Thought I'd check Real Clear Politics to see his latest polling average. In doing so every few months, we see a trajectory emerging.

Polling really only works in aggregate (and even then it has issues), so it is hard for me to really accept the results of a single poll/pollster as proof of any big changes in preferences. Further, you can't really just put approval numbers over voting trends and expect a 1:1 trend. As voting is a comparison, you may disapprove of someone and still vote for them because the other candidate is worse.

Trump is definitely proof of that.  70+ million votes with the worst approval rating in a long time.  Even though he had a pretty low approval and high disapproval level he still gain the majority of the partisan vote.