period on that level of pessimism. the president s job rating, 45% approve of his job. and it s been lower in other polls. when it comes to the presidential attributes that our poll has tracked, just 31% give the president high marks for being competent and effective. just some around 20% actually believe that he has the mental and physical capacity to be president, and those are some grim perceptions about the president and also the direction of the country. mark murray, ali vitale, thank you very much for that. as the president gets ready to speak to congress. the house of representatives and republicans there are ramping up their investigations into his administration. with the new house select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, that s what they call it, set for its first public hearing this thursday picking witness. led by republican congressman jim jordan set to focus on what conservatives see as possible
final days of his campaign not in purple states, but in blue states california, new mexico, illinois, and new york, where he will be campaigning later today in suburban westchester county. here s why his job approval ratings at 40 a news poll and low let me put this in context for you. what does a job rating mean? some people believe it s the single-most indicator to understand. bill clinton tran lated into a 54-seat loss. a 45 march job approval for president obama, 46 her for president trump, 40 house seat loss for his party. what will 44% give us and here s to me the number you probably ought to care about the most in this poll? the state of the u.s. economy? 81% tell us they are dissatisfied.
midterm results are investment connected to presidential job rating. how much responsibility do you think president biden has? i think he gets a bum wrap. he s fixing or roads and bridges, bringing jobs back from china, he took on the big drug companies. you know where these dark money is coming into the races is because we took those drug companies a. he s helps or veterans with extraordinary health care. he s done gun safety plans, and let s not forget the rescue plan. he s working through the damage of the trump years and the pandemic and he s not getting enough credit for it. we have more to do, and he ll be the first one to tell you that. based on all your answers, it sounds like you don t believe democrats did anything wrong. you believe if you don t do well, it s simply you had bad messages or didn t communicate it right? is that your basic take? first of all, neither of us know what s going to happen to tuesday, but we re not perfect, but we are responsible adults who did
by the way, given what happened to paul pelosi, we asked voters about the current climate of political violence. voters are more likely to view the political rhetoric as an important contributing factor. when we asked who is responsible for this elevated rhetoric? social media companies come out on top almost universally blamed for our current political climate, and then trish and republican officials and biden at the bottom. let s turn back to the battle not house. i want to point out some key numbers for you to keep track of. in the seven times since the truman era when the president s job rating has been below 50% in the first term, that president s
trying to limit the losses. especially where democrats have made this competitive. they are in the game. the goal is to limit the losses on the senate side, trying to pick up one or two seats and save seats like nevada and new hampshire. one thing we are not talking about enough is the republicans picked up seats in redistricting. especially when the house margin was six seats going into the midterms. limiting losses is the name of the game for democrats who overcame so many things to make the midterms competitive. mark, i go back to you. as somebody who studied the most recent poll. the biggest factors at play are? the biggest at play, i would see where president biden s job rating is. if it s 44% like in our poll,