allies filled to do in 2020, through the electoral voting system into chaos and create a showdown with the next president by a vote in the representatives. history suggests democrats are on route to a midterms lacking, as president obama once called it. traditionally, glossy in congress. expect performed so poorly that it s almost a portland this point. yes, president biden s all-time low poll numbers are in helping his party and senate majorities. the true picture is more complicated than that. brand new, shiny reconciliation bill and the climate. there s also new polling this week, suggesting that things might not be is as the first seemed. despite biden s 33% approval rating, and the fact that 50% of headed in the wrong direction, recent polls also show a slight majority still want them in control of congress. democrats real opportunity is in the senate, where they have a chance to take several seats held by republicans. in wisconsin, the democratic lieuten
for. yeah, somebody to help us. that s why we just want to live and move forward. you know? it s gone, it s the past. move on to better days. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin. thank you for watching. welcome to the show. a media. senate sunday, march hundred ace of the 22 and two midterms. we re doing the whole of today show to those elections what, they mean and what might happen. they are quite possibly the most important of our lifetime in, yes, that said about every election, let me just point out on january the 6th, 2021, donald trump might still be president right now. and republicans are already trying to who could do with trump s
infrastructure investment of jobs act. it was a landmark legislation, meant to overhaul the country from roads, bridges, broadband. you said at the time, a quote, we can reaffirm the american people s faith that our democracy can put change in the lives. yet, americans don t really know about this change you ve helped bring about. most voters don t even know this happened. 30% no about the tree. you re right about the. that s with this 100 days is really about. some snow we can run not doing something that has to do with infrastructure. it s a great story. people come out, republicans, democrats will cost the state. i think that will be true if we pass this reconciliation package as well. there are massive benefits for
the modernity but i want to try and work across the aisle with the new republican speaker, joe martin, and republicans in the house and senate. so, he did. he then became the marshall plan. nato, the response is stalled and marching through europe. all of that would ve been impossible if truman had just said, you know, i m finished or i m gonna do nothing but fight the other side. that s truman. if we look at recent years, we ve gone democratic presidents like obama, clinton, both getting select-y. look comes to mind we just played a bit of tom brokaw are seeing more radical republicans and let s take over in the house, possibly. what can you learn from their? that s for sure. i m so glad that you re using that historical video from 1994 because it tells us a lot.
run succeed in 2010. if you look at the metrics, it wasn t like two or 3 million people who voted for barack obama a bit complete a steak at a let you had. isn t adding flow these measures are important because what we saw in 2010, we saw a large swath of the obama and not participating in the midterm elections. does that is a lot of time. our younger voters pullback, minority voters, you have an electorate that s older and less diverse in the midterms. it tends to benefit republicans. one of the things that i m seeing in the data right now which is different than what we saw on 2010 there is more interest in the midterm election right now in 2010. even though younger voters and