This Headline About a New Poll on Biden's Popularity (or Lack Thereof) 'Missed the Lede'

Doug P. | 9:51 AM on January 11, 2025

There are just nine days to go until the country can start to try and put the Biden-Harris years behind it, though the negative effects will linger for quite a while.

Now that the era of Biden is almost at an end, there's a new poll showing how many people thought this was a good or great presidency, and this is how The Hill framed the story:

One-quarter in a new poll say President Biden was a ‘good’ or ‘great’ president https://t.co/rXyYhO1vAe
— The Hill (@thehill) January 10, 2025

First off, who are the people who think Biden was a "great" president? However, that certainly would have been framed differently if the headline were about Trump.

One in four people … that means three of the four thinks he sucks.

Thinking you missed the lede here, guys. https://t.co/i6ik1vYNqK
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) January 11, 2025

Translation: 75% (the other three quarters) thinks he’s a garbage president

And they posted this like it was a win. https://t.co/Hu8omj1YYw
— The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) January 11, 2025

That's your headline? 25% approve of Biden? Oh boy you stretched that percentage as far as it would go🤣🤣🤣🤣
— Someone Important (@justimportant2) January 10, 2025

This approval number still seems incredibly high:

Only one-quarter of Americans said President Biden was a “good” or “great” president, getting lower approval numbers than President-elect Trump at the end of his first term and former President Obama at the end of his second term, according to a survey released Friday.
The new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 25 percent of U.S. respondents said they thought of Biden as a “good” or “great” president. During the same period four years ago, 36 percent of respondents said the same about Trump while 52 percent characterized Obama in the same light eight years ago.