have conditions improved? 36% obama and 30% biden. the battle of obamacare, it was not yet a popular program at all. there was concern about the effect on the economy, and yet still nearly half of americans today say biden was making it worse, not even close to how americans were responding to obama back then. that to me suggests this may be even a tougher mountain to climb. i know there aren t as many competitive seats. i m not suggesting democrats are going to lose 63 seats next year, but i do think the political terrain is every bit as tough as it was for democrats. these numbers are bad, 11 months are a bad time, but if we get to the spring and they start to harden some, that s where it gets difficult. again, covid driving the economic anxiety. next, we ll follow the conversation.
it s up ten points since march. the thirpurple line is covid. even that is down six points since march. and this is a question that has nothing to do with biden. we asked in the poll, do you think economic conditions in the country are good right now? that s the gold line. again, look from march to now. that is down 17 points. if you re trying to frame into the election the president s approval, jonathan martin, those are troubling numbers. they are, and this was always the risk of nominating joe biden was that he was seen as the best possible pick to beat donald trump. he wasn t seen as the most inspirational, transformational leader, he was the safe bet. a lot of democrats last year said, how do we get trump out of office and biden was seen as the easiest way to do that. i have a vivid memory over a year ago talking to people outside the white house the day the race was called for joe biden. what sticks out from that day is they were excited trump was
vaccine or two months after the johnson & johnson to get a booster. that s one issue. the other part we re not looking at is although the boosters and vaccines may protect against disease, they do that at a less efficacious rate than the prior variants. when we have a higher caseload, even though less people are becoming ill, when the numbers start to spike, that still causes a strain in the health system. three out of four teams have had to postpone games because of covid. cornell one of four college campuses saying they re going to partially shift things online. omicron is only 3% of the cases. even when we have to deal with delta, how do you do that juggle? it s hard to juggle. we don t know exactly what we re dealing with. keep in mind omicron was discovered a little under three weeks ago and we re already seeing it in 77 countries and 36
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gone. i would ask, aren t you excited about joe biden being president? they would be polite, but there was nobody among democratic partisans, those who were at the white house celebrating, who were thrilled with joe biden. they were thrilled that trump was gone. that is coming home to roost, because with trump out of the picture, it s about biden, and people aren t thrilled about what they have. they re happy about who left. there is also, no matter how you look at the numbers, there is covid fatigue throughout. no matter what number you re looking at, there is a covid exhaustion and how people feel personally about this. now, 11 months is a long time. that s a cliche. 11 months is a long time. we have no idea what covid will look like. we have no idea what the economy would look like. but when you have 7 to 10 americans say they re unable to find something, when you have 54% of americans saying they need to change the way they buy groceries, it s a problem. the white house is tryi