Independents respond to Biden SOTU

By Don Varyu

March 8, 2024

I’m not a great believer in polls, particularly ones taken right after a one-off event like the State of the Union address. We know what the reactions will be. People supporting the party of the President will like it; those in opposition are not realistically going to change their minds.

What value there is might come from independent voters—at least those who claim to be. In any case, I do think Joe Biden’s SOTU screen test (for the role of perfectly viable old guy) did come out well for him, at least as measured by the independent voters CNN recruited. The results fore independent respondents on individual issues are listed below in the before and after columns:

These have to be encoueraging for the Biden camp. But it’s only one poll, and as they say themselves, it’s still more than half a year until election day.

But it’s also important to report the reaction of former President Trump to Biden’s performance; he informed his Truth Social followers that Biden’s hair looks better from the front than the back (seriously). And let’s face it—the man pays no small attention to hair.

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