Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight sounds alarm on Biden's polling: It 'isn't bouncing back' as we expected
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Pollster Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight is sounding the alarm on President Biden's struggle to rebound as his polling continues to nosedive in recent months.
"At the time, we theorized that Biden’s approval rating might recover before too long, especially once the news cycle moved on from the crisis in Afghanistan… But we’re now more than a month removed from Biden’s difficult August, and there have been no signs of a rebound in his approval rating," Rakich wrote. "At the end of the day on Oct. 5, Biden’s approval/disapproval spread was 44.8 percent to 47.9 percent. That approval rating, in fact, is so far the lowest of his presidency."
Rakich cited data showing the declining coverage of Afghanistan on cable news since the Taliban takeover yet Biden's bad polling continued, writing "This is consistent with the argument that the decline in Biden’s approval rating was never just about Afghanistan."