{"id":41878,"date":"2021-04-19T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41878"},"modified":"2021-04-19T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:06:24","slug":"figures-dont-lie-but-liars-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41878","title":{"rendered":"Figures Don&#8217;t Lie, But Liars Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/548649-biden-hits-59-percent-approval-rating-in-pew-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a> posted an article headlined, &#8220;Biden hits 59 percent approval rating in Pew poll.&#8221; Considering the crisis at the border, the diplomatic flubs, the end of energy independence, etc., that strikes me as amazing. This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2021\/04\/15\/biden-100-days-methodology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link to the methodology<\/a> used in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>This is a screenshot of the group polled:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PewPollMethodology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41879 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PewPollMethodology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PewPollMethodology.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PewPollMethodology-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PewPollMethodology-500x178.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s almost 2 to 1 Democrats polled. Isn&#8217;t it interesting that President Biden&#8217;s approval rating in the poll was roughly 2 to 1. Frankly, I think that all this poll shows is a nation divided on party lines.<\/p>\n<p>The article at The Hill, of course, has a bit of a spin:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A majority of Americans\u00a0\u2014 59 percent\u00a0\u2014 approve of <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\" data-nid=\"188332\">President Biden<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s handling of his job as he approaches 100 days in office, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2021\/04\/15\/biden-nears-100-day-mark-with-strong-approval-positive-rating-for-vaccine-rollout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The poll<\/a> found\u00a0Biden&#8217;s job approval is up 5 percentage points from 54 percent in March, while 39 percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of his work thus far.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Biden&#8217;s 59 percent approval rating is 20 percentage points higher than that of former <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s in a Pew poll from April 2017 and is similar to the approval ratings of former Presidents Obama and George W. Bush in April of their first terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Pew poll surveyed 5,109 adults from April 5 to 11, which was days before the Biden administration recommended pausing the use of the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine. The poll has a margin of error of\u00a02.1 percentage points.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Public polling in Biden&#8217;s first months in office has generally shown the public gives him <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/548563-biden-handling-of-coronavirus-keys-positive-approval-rating-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high marks<\/a> on his handling of the pandemic and his <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/545816-ap-poll-finds-biden-with-61-percent-approval-rating\">overall approval rating<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what President Trump&#8217;s approval ratings would have been had the media covered him fairly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, The Hill posted an article headlined, &#8220;Biden hits 59 percent approval rating in Pew poll.&#8221; Considering the crisis at the border, the diplomatic flubs, the end of energy independence, etc., that strikes me as amazing. This is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13340,13675,11429,13372,10589,9533],"class_list":["post-41878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-approval-ratings","tag-methodology","tag-pew-research","tag-president-biden","tag-president-trump","tag-the-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41880,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41878\/revisions\/41880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}