The poll by John Zogby Strategies, issued last week, discovered that 45 percent of independents want the GOP in charge of the House and Senate, compared to 27 percent who want Democrats to retain their majority. The remaining 28 percent announced they were not sure just yet.
The same survey discovered that Republicans held a three-point advantage, 46 percent to 43 percent, on the generic congressional ballot.
“In my four decades of polling, Democrats need about a five percentage-point advantage [in] nationwide congressional preference in order to maintain a majority of Congress,” pollster John Zogby announced in a statement. “With a three-point Republican lead, and a substantial lead among independents, signs are pointing today to the possibility of a big Republican advantage going into 2022.”
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The same survey put President Biden’s approval rate at 46 percent, with 52 percent of respondents disliking his performance. While Biden’s approval number is higher than in some other recent surveys, Zogby stressed that 40 percent of respondents announced they “strongly” disapproved of the president’s work.
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“Biden’s overall numbers are borderline at 46 percent, but with 40 percent strong disapproval, his room for growth is severely limited,” he explained.
Just 20 percent of respondents announced they “strongly” approved of the president’s performance.
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The online survey of 777 registered voters was conducted on Dec. 17 and carries a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.6 percentage points.
Biden’s approval numbers plunged throughout his first year in office as the White House grappled with many crises, including the chaotic Afghanistan departure, supply chain backlogs, new COVID-19 variants, and inflation.
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Furthermore, congressional Democrats have been unable to pass the president’s $2 trillion social spending agenda because of the opposition of moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).
The senator said he ended up killing President Biden’s massive social and environmental spending bill because White House staff pushed him to his “wit’s end.”
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“It is not the president. This is staff,” the West Virginia Democrat told home-state radio host Hoppy Kercheval.
“And they drove some things, and they put some things out, that were absolutely inexcusable. They know what it is.”
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Manchin went on: “I’m always willing to work and listen to try. I just got to the wit’s end and they know the real reasons what happened.”
Republicans need only to win a net of five seats to recover command of the House of Representatives, and 23 House Democrats have already declared they are not seeking re-election next year.
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