The Republican Party has withdrawn from the democratic experiment, choosing instead to rally behind insurrectionists and white nationalists. There needs to be a recognition that, realistically speaking, the days of a president enjoying approval ratings above 50% are effectively over. The reality is, in this day and age, the way we interpret polls has got to change. So why in the world is the political media so quick to jump right back on the polling bandwagon six months later? It turns out, there was absolutely zero correlation between job approval polls on Biden and the outcome of the midterm elections. The results were a far cry from Republicans flipping 60 House seats as they had been crowing about.

Democrats ultimately gained ground in the Senate and, by the narrowest of margins, lost the majority in the House. Of course, the conventional political analysis was completely wrong about the midterm elections. “How well will Biden’s low approval explain the midterm results?” was a headline that appeared in the Washington Post on election day. “Joe Biden’s poll numbers are in a very bad place for Democrats,” CNN pronounced in late October. It wasn’t that long ago that similar assessments were made for the Democrats in the run-up to the midterm elections. Right on cue, the Washington media establishment went into overdrive, characterizing the poll numbers as “ bleak” and “ brutal.” Over the weekend, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed President Biden’s approval rating at 36% and had him down 7 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup with Donald Trump.

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