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Clearly these groups were deliberately skewed to hype the dishonest storyline that Biden is failing. Poll numbers tell a different tale. Biden’s performance is approved by 75% of Democrats and by a majority of those who lean Democratic.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/01/25/views-of-joe-biden/

The media is deliberately framing that story as “Biden’s approval ratings among Dems has tanked ” — it is true his numbers are down 20 points but that is deeply misleading because they have dropped from an unusually high 95% approval among Dems.

These focus groups are blatantly biased. If they had been chosen by objective standards intended to give viewers real insight into how Americans are thinking then 3/4 of the Democrats would have had positive things to say about Biden.

Our media has allowed itself to become an arm of the right wing propaganda machine. The fact that they would use the odious right wing spinner Frank Luntz is proof. He used to do this regularly for NBC with little criticism. Those same networks would never choose someone like James Carville to do the questioning.

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