Egyptian authorities have detained at least 73 campaign volunteers for a challenger to incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in the December election, a rights group said Tuesday. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said the detainees were volunteers working for presidential hopeful and critic Ahmed Altantawy. The dozens of supporters face a variety of charges including joining a terrorist group — government parlance for the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood — and spreading false news.
During an interview with Yahoo Finance, Trump said that he doesn't expect to face Florida's GOP governor, adding most Republicans wouldn't run against him.
NBC sounded a rather different note, “At 100 days, Biden s approval remains strong.”
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These varying evaluations result from both different numbers and different analytic perspectives.
Start with analysis.
Comparisons are critical in analyzing poll data, but one must always ask, “compared to what?”
Less positive appraisals of President Biden’s standing compare him to the full range of presidents past. President Biden isn’t enjoying quite the honeymoon his predecessors did.
He’s just nowhere near the 83 percent approval John Kennedy
John Neely KennedyMORE registered 100 days in, nor even Eisenhower or Reagan’s 73 percent.
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Lest the obvious go unsaid, however, that’s not really a meaningful comparison for reasons that have nothing whatever to do with Joe Biden and everything to do with the partisan sclerosis that has deadened the responsiveness of the body politic to both personalities and polices.