I think the biggest issue is simply that the struggling post-covid economy is blamed on Biden. Therefore people feel personally hurt by his policies.

Compare that to Trump who may have hurt a lot of people. But a majority felt unaffected personally. (I'm not an activist. I'm not trans. I'm not getting an abortion. I don't know the people coming across the border. I wasn't at the Capitol. Etc.)

I wasn't all that optimistic about a Biden presidency but he has actually accomplished a lot, in spite of a hostile Republican house, that the so-called media ignores. People in foreign countries understand this better than the average American who is quit ignorant about US politics. In fact, I hear more Putin/Republican talking points at the local sweat shop.

] While I would vote for someone more progressive if I had the choice, honestly a centrist may be good to just cool things down. Though Biden hasn't been great at that either.

I just wanted to say - how many times should this experiment be repeated before we figure out that no, centrist politicians to cool things down with the right doesn't work? You're just moving the Overton window further and further right, making it increasingly harder for leftist politicians to actually make progress.

We need more party's that are economically left but also have the right views that people want individually, like people seem to care about immigration yet the left pretends people don't. Though the right just pretends to care, which isn't very helpful either.

I wish democrats were the right wing option in American politics. Any decent country would value them as firmly neoliberal and basically conservative in the dictionary sense. Social progress laggards, fiscally careful, and totally latched to the corporate teat

The fact that they're the lefties was enough to make me leave for good. If things get much worse I'll renounce my citizenship.

Why do I suspect if they were asked which, they would all name things completely out of Biden’s control?

Speaking of which, as much as I couldn't stand George W. Bush, the financial collapse that happened on his watch was more or less the direct result of Bill Clinton repealing the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999.

See: Byron Dorgan's crystal ball -- specifically at 1:30 (he was only two years off).

Also, why didn't I get a pony?

I was told Jared Kushner accomplished it easily and it wasn't even the top of his side gigs...

One UN vote away and no more enabling. It can be done over the weekend.

He could stop pouring gasoline in the fire

I can’t remember an election where I voted for someone I approved of.

He already tried sending murder machines to Israel and he's out of ideas /s

I don't know this the case for whichever poll this is based on, but disapproval and approval aren't necessarily complementary.

Here is an archive version of the NYT article.

Here is a link to the Sienna College/NYT poll.

Here is the link to the Bloomberg poll from last week (discussed in the Guardian article) that supports some of the Sienna/NYT poll's findings.

Generally-speaking, on polls I've seen in the past, Trump is more-highly-regarded than Biden on economic issues among Americans.

I've seen inflation referenced as a factor. Relative to recent decades, the Biden administration saw relatively-high inflation, and the Trump administration slightly below the norm. Inflation is a pretty visible indicator to people -- you see gasoline prices every time you refill the tank -- so a lot of public opinion of how a president performs economically hinges on what inflation is doing while they're in office.

I don't know about any recent shifts in the last few months, but Biden polling poorly on economic issues is more-or-less what I'd expect.

I don't know how quickly that fades. Inflation has fallen off, but prices have already risen. Probably possible to look at past polling data to see how sticky perceptions are after periods of high inflation.

https://www.ft.com/content/78ba05d8-d712-494c-95e1-d58567754325

The public prefer a recession to inflation

Did I say the public hate inflation? I meant they really hate inflation. It’s old, but this study by Nobel laureate Bob Shiller examined how much people disliked prices rising and why. Posing detailed questions to respondents in the US, Germany and Brazil, he first found people didn’t really worry about recessions and prized low inflation. In the US, 75 per cent of his survey preferred a world with 9 per cent unemployment (12mn) and 2 per cent inflation to one with high inflation and low unemployment. Germans took the same view, with 72 per cent favouring the recessionary world, while the results in Brazil were closer, but still 54 per cent wanted to avoid high inflation. On deeper probing, Shiller found that people think inflation is something done to them by government or companies (they really believe in greedflation), but if their wages rise, they earned it all by themselves.