President Biden’s policy agenda is incredibly popular, much more popular than his opponent’s. But Biden the man? Not so much.

The question now is whom to blame for the approval gap between the president and his agenda: voters, the media or Biden himself.

Democrats have long argued that their policies are more popular than those of Republicans. In a recent blind test conducted by YouGov, that was unmistakably true. The polling organization asked Americans what they thought about major policies proposed by Biden and Donald Trump without specifying who proposed them. The idea was to see how the public perceived ideas when stripped of tribal associations.

Biden’s agenda was the winner, hands down.

Of the 28 Biden proposals YouGov asked about, 27 were supported by more people than opposed them. Impressively, 24 received support from more than 50 percent of respondents.

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    6 months ago

    I support the policies he took from the Sanders campaign to appear more progressive than he is, but he dropped most of those as soon as he got elected.

    Almost like we should’ve elected someone who actually had an established history of fighting for those policies, and not someone who adapted them in a stunted form to win an election.

    Corporations love his pork barrel spending though, yeah.