{"id":1545472,"date":"2022-07-09T06:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T10:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545472"},"modified":"2022-07-09T06:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T10:19:47","slug":"bidens-right-track-wrong-track-number-is-worst-in-more-than-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-right-track-wrong-track-number-is-worst-in-more-than-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Right Track\/Wrong Track Number Is Worst in More than a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-right-track-wrong-track-number-is-worst-in-more-than-a-decade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/direction_of_country-902.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the worst since 2011<\/a>, which means not only is it worse than at any point during Trump\u2019s presidency, it\u2019s worse than at any point during <i>a pandemic that killed a million people<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\/status\/1545155362147500034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan McLaughlin<\/a> sums it up thusly: \u201cPollsters: how do you feel about America under Joe Biden? Americans: literally a global plague was better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What the hell was going on in this country in late 2011 that made voters (slightly) more sour about the future then than they are now amid grinding inflation, lingering COVID, and bitter partisan divisions?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s any consolation to Dems, the only other time in the history of RealClearPolitics\u2019s tracker that the numbers were this bad came during the first term of a Democratic president who went on to get reelected comfortably the following year.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that the bad vibes will linger longer during Biden\u2019s administration, though, and not just because of inflation. Have a look at the right track\/wrong track numbers over the past year:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-08-at-9.23.21-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-481481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first sharp drop in the \u201cright track\u201d share came last August, following the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco. That was followed by eight months of stasis, then by another drop in May presumably due to rising gas prices and growing concerns about the cost of living. But look how much altitude the \u201cright track\u201d share has lost in just the past two weeks, from 22.8 percent on June 28 to 17.9 percent today. Did anything happen in late June to cause liberals who\u2019d stuck by Biden until that point to suddenly turn dark about which track the country was on?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/allahpundit\/2022\/07\/07\/angry-dems-wonder-why-isnt-biden-doing-more-to-delegitimize-the-supreme-court-n481314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oh. Right.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inflation will end in the next year or two (<em>I think?<\/em>) but national abortion rights won\u2019t be returning to America anytime soon. The resulting progressive disaffection will remain a problem for Biden for the rest of his term. And, as with inflation, there\u2019s little he can do to try to solve it.<\/p>\n<p>He makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10992193\/Be-effing-President-Democrat-anger-Biden-reaches-boiling-point.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490&#038;ito=1490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a great scapegoat for pissed-off lefties<\/a>, though!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One Democratic strategist bemoaned to DailyMail.com that \u2018this White House is just always like a half step behind.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Be the effing president,\u2019 the strategist said of Biden\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Progressives want all the change, the vast majority of the country just wants to get to some semblance of normal again, moderates are tired of the progressives being detached from independent voters, and everyone wants [Attorney General] Merrick Garland to empanel grand juries yesterday,\u2019 [another] strategist said. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018With inflation, January 6th, Russia invading Ukraine, the Supreme Court imposing cultural shocks, and the new Omicron variants all dominating the first half of this term, it makes it really hard to make anybody happy,\u2019 the strategist said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What kind of wave are we looking at this fall, exactly? Short answer: <i>A big one.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Governor:<br \/>Drazan \u2013 32.4%<br \/>Kotek \u2013 31.4%<br \/>Johnson \u2013 24.4%<\/p>\n<p>Generic Ballot: <br \/>GOP \u2013 47.1%<br \/>Dem \u2013 42.5% <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yV8cK991U5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/yV8cK991U5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Hughes (@jeremybhughes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremybhughes\/status\/1545185451912429570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Longer answer: A big one, but probably not as big as some expect. Remember, Biden\u2019s garbage numbers are to some degree independent of Democratic interest in turning out this fall, which looks to have <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/allahpundit\/2022\/07\/07\/hmmm-dems-surge-on-generic-ballot-following-end-of-roe-n481267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risen since the Dobbs decision<\/a>. And remorseless gerrymandering over the last decade has shrunk the number of competitive seats. Years ago, before Americans began sorting themselves geographically by their politics, an 80-seat pick-up in the House in an environment like this one might be feasible. In 2022, writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/house\/house-overview\/house-math-and-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Walter<\/a>, a 35- or 40-seat pick-up is more realistic.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-08-at-9.55.32-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-481489\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walter notes that enormous wave elections tend to happen when a rump minority in the House suddenly surges into power, winning back dozens of competitive seats they had lost in poor previous cycles. But the current House GOP isn\u2019t a rump minority; they gained seats in the last congressional elections in 2020, in fact. Incumbents have also gotten used to an endless series of tit-for-tat wave elections, she points out, which means they\u2019re less likely than they were in the past to take victory for granted. Case in point: Patty Murray is a five-term Senate incumbent running in one of America\u2019s most reliably blue states but she\u2019s taking no chances this year, having already spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/28\/democrats-getting-the-jitters-in-washington-and-colorado-00042679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than a million bucks on ads<\/a> attacking her Republican challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proved a few years ago that it\u2019s still possible to catch an incumbent napping when she successfully primaried Joe Crowley. But it\u2019s harder in a general election in an era of waves, when figures like Murray know that being proactive in defending their seats may be the difference between defeat and victory.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t be too glum about Walter\u2019s projection. Even if Republicans gained a \u201cmere\u201d 41 seats, that would leave them north of 250 in the House \u2014 their biggest majority since before the New Deal. That\u2019s what a sub-18 percent \u201cright track\u201d number will do to a party in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the worst since 2011, which means not only is it worse than at any point during Trump\u2019s presidency, it\u2019s worse than at any point during a pandemic that killed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}