Ik AOC isn't that great but -16% lmao :amerikkka-clap:
I guess what Americans really love is dying from COVID
Net favorability can be a weird metric. "No opinion / neutral" tends to be a popular response in these polls. So someone like AOC might have 30% "favorable" / 30 "no opinion" / 40 "unfavorable" for a net favorability of -10. But that might reflect 100% unfavorability among Republicans and a 50/50 "favorable / no opinion" split among Democrats. So then in an election, she might win 60/40, despite having -10 net favorability.
That said, it's not irrelevant either, because strong favorability / unfavorability can be a reasonably good predictor of outcomes if you interpret it right, especially in recent years. Trump's win in 2016 could arguably have been predicted by his high favorability and high unfavorability, while Hillary had high unfavorability and low favorability.
Republicans are really good at making one or two Democrats into a giant lightning rod to hate on. Some of that hate is deserved. But its often just Ben Garrison tier "This FEMALE legislator is UGLY and EVIL and STUPID" superficial smearing.
Hillary was a great instance of this. People spent decades ranting about her clothing, the tone of her voice, and various Pizza-gate tier conspiracies. If you asked what Hillary did in Haiti, maybe one in ten people would know what you were talking about. And voters who hated her the most inevitably knew the least.
In some sense, it lets folks like Hillary get away with murder precisely because "Buttery Males!" dominates the minds of the public, rather than her shitty attempt at health care reform in the 90s or her disastrous State Department lead effort to topple Libya.
Remember all statistics without context are trying to mislead or misinform you.
you are reading this poll wrong, it’s change in favorability, Sinema could’ve gone from 2% to 4%
I don't think that's true. These numbers are net favorable minus net unfavorable. It's just that she also had the most "no opinion" because most Americans don't know who she is.
OP this is literally the opposite of the truth. Sinema is at the bottom on the list. Look at page 13.
https://mcusercontent.com/ca678077bc522bd7bd74bacbf/files/f5e7728d-554a-39d2-2939-8c4849d081c6/HHP_October_12PM_vF.pdf
I read through the whole thing and I'm choosing to believe it's not real.
Tbh a lot of the questions seem pretty leading. Take the crypto section:
Do you believe individuals should be able to conduct financial transactions free from the oversight of governments and tax authorities or not?
61% agree
How concerned are you that cryptocurrencies are used by hackers, terrorists, and other non-state actors?
71% somewhat/very concerned
The US government should support the cryptocurrency industry as a counterweight to China's digital currency efforts
62% somewhat/strongly agree
People should be free to use crypto without oversight, except when they're hackers and terrorists, and also the government needs to be involved in supporting crypto to own China. You can't tell me that people aren't just nodding along and being like, "Uh, yeah sure" to these questions.
damn sanders is the man. we could've had a decent president for once :doomer:
Uninformed liberal voters who still think she’s on their side, centrists, and Republicans.
Having lost faith in the possibility of a brighter future, the thing the average voter really wants from their leaders is to make people who are worse off than they are themselves suffer.
Net favourability. But still Christ the AOC media stunts have hurt badly.
i was disappointed that i didnt see more sinema costumes this halloween. i feel like that would be an easy slam dunk
I don't think these favorability polls are too useful, especially for politicians (like Sinema) for whom most Americans don't have an opinion.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised. I imagine Sinema's ratings with Republicans are halfway decent, while most other Dems will have near-zero approval from them. Swing voters do exist, as much as it's hard to believe.
Think about Susan Collins in 2020. She had very poor favorables because most Republicans do not like her but a decent number of Democrats do, but she won comfortably because Republicans came home for her and those Democrats crossed over. Sinema is trying to do the same thing, although unlike Collins I imagine Sinema will face a primary challenge.
you can see some of that famous american sexism is the lower numbers for every woman.
Three straight years of people putting her on a pedestal while other people fling shit at her. How could this happen?
Clearly, Mikie Sherrill and Henry Cuellar are just better at their jobs, because they're too invisible for people to hate them.
Considering how deeply unpopular Pelosi already was, falling another 18% must make her favorability lower than Jeffrey Epstein's.
You definitely cannot draw that conclusion from this. For a bunch of reasons.
