Red State: "Panic Time for Democrats As Joe Biden Gets No Bump From Terrible State of the Union Speech."
I don't understand. Didn't America see the fiery vigor from Old Yeller?
Biden has seen no State of the Union poll bump yet. In fact, today's updated approval rating average is a new all-time lowhttps://t.co/hBrpbNmo7Q pic.twitter.com/kDP2Fc4xjK
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) March 12, 2024
NO! Not really?
ReplyDeleteSince 1989:
Bush 1991 got a post-State of the Union bump.
Clinton 1998 also got a SOTU bump.
Obama 2014 also got a bump.
And... that's it. 3 out of the last 26. There were no other significant rises.
As for Trump and Biden? If your mother was in a coma, and her isoelectric EKG monitor line looked like one of their approval rating trajectories following a State of the Union speech? You'd pull the plug.
Since 1989, the average presidential approval bump a week after a State of the Union has been one-half of one percentage point.
Political scholars call this The Half-Point Honeymoon.
A month after the last 26 speeches, the average presidential approval had gone up by zero points.