Midterm elections loom large as Biden’s approval drops in new polling

Annie Andersen: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES…

ONE YEAR AGO  – – 

DEMOCRATS WERE CELEBRATING PRESIDENT BIDEN’S  VICTORY OVER DONALD TRUMP

NOW 12 MONTHS LATER –

AND exactly 12 BEFORE THE MIDTERMS — 

HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED

DIFFERENT POLLS…

DIFFERENT NETWORKS

SAME RESULTS – 

AMERICANS , EVEN LIBERALS ARE FALLING OUT OF LOVE WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN.

Air Supply <<”I’m all out of love.”>>

Annie Andersen: According to a new poll from USA Today and Suffolk University has his approval rating SITS at 38 percent… and his disapproval rating at 59 percent. 

Joe Biden: <<”“I didn’t run because of the polls. I think what you’re going to see is the combination of what I did in the beginning in terms of the recovery act, and then this legislation, as well as the legislation we’re about the pass, god willing, on what’s called Build Back Better”>>

Annie Andersen: But it isn’t all bad news for Biden.

In October the unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent.. That’s a new pandemic low.

Not only that.. The number of new jobs created last month beat the expected number by more than 80 thousand. 

Wages are also up.. Almost 5 percent from this time last year… and 0.4 percent from September. 

BUT DEMOCRATS STILL HAVE A LOT OF GROUND TO COVER BEFORE THE MIDTERMS IF THEY WANT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL IN CONGRESS. 

So far 29 members have said they won’t be even trying to return 

In the senate, 5 republicans won’t be running again. 

Cook political has two of those seats… pennsylvania and North Carolina listed as tossups. 

And in the house, 14 Democrats and 10 republicans… including moderates Adam Kinzinger and Anthony Gonzalez won’t be returning. 

For the Dems… budget chair John Yarmuth is saying goodbye.

None of these seats are considered to be at risk, or even really in play according to Cook Political.

But turnout could impact those races.. 

After a big win in Virginia and a close race in New Jersey…

Republicans are excited about their future. 

Rather than focus on divisive issues… the GOP has made education a priority… taking into account both critical race theory and parent’s rights. 

Steve Shepard: <<” with a message like education, you can boil it down to one word, but different voters in different parts of the electorate heard different things when Glenn Youngkin talk about that and it worked for him.”>>

Annie Andersen: IF HISTORY IS ANY INDICATOR – DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE AN UPHILL BATTLE HEADING INTO 2022.    IN PAST MIDTERM ELECTIONS – the party with the White House bleeds seats.   

Democrats lost 63 seats in 2010… during President Obama’s first TERM.   

AND In 2018 DURING President Trump’s first midterm, Republicans lost 40 seats.    Republicans need a net gain of just one seat in the SENATE to win back the majority.   AND Democrats currently hold their most fragile House majority in eight decades. The GOP needs a net gain of five seats in the 435-member chamber to win back control. 

Straight from DC, I’m Annie Andersen