People are focused on Hispanics’ low approval of Biden (red box), but take a look at the real outlier: +65 yo Americans. 🧵 
Biden is + with +65 yos with his highest approval number of any age bracket at 48%. This is insane if you consider the race cross tabs here. Only 23% of seniors are non-white so being at 48% with seniors blows out demographic expectations. aarp.org/home-garden/li…
His white approval rate is in the low 30s. It’s possible they crammed Ds into the +65 segment to lift that approval number up. Could have done the same with whites w/degrees. This was a favored tactic for Florida polling in ‘20 that showed Biden up +5%. Eagles
Overall disappointment on the left for Biden not being ‘left enough’ (only held back by Manchin) and no Green New Deal explains general dissatisfaction across younger ages that should support him. 76% from Ds is weaker than Obama ever had. They’ll vote D even if mad at Biden.
Black approval rate isn’t high enough to make up for it either. It’s such an outlier that polling shenanigans is the likely culprit. There is another possibility. The +65 crowd might have seen the world pass them by. Biden’s play for normality in ‘20 might work due to no tweets
The +65 crowd will swallow that covid is better. It’s not, but there’s no death ticker on tv and no nonstop psyop. Biden is awful but a known quantity. These people can think ‘90s Biden is a return to normal. They don’t have kids in schools. Their homes are paid for. They have $.
They aren’t working. DEI doesn’t affect them yet. The age skew isn’t as bad as in France where Macron enjoys amazing support from the elderly ‘68ers. It’s still bad if not a function of poll chicanery. We shouldn’t be surprised by the last gen that watches TV & believes its lies
These are the civility types. These Boomers likely rank JFK as a top 5 president because of vague memories curated by the media and his handsome smile. They hated Trump because the media & what he reminded them of themselves.
Biden offers a better (in their mind) reflection of a declining old man who has kids that look out for him (for corrupt deals) and younger minorities pat his back & praise him for being hip to their wants (a good white).
The Boomers are desperate to think we can go back to ‘95. They want to believe we can go back to the good ol’ days. Biden is a symbol of that era. They mocked him for decades, but he is a remnant of the old bipartisan screwing over of America that made them wealthy
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