No state seems safe for President Biden.
A new poll of Deep Blue Massachusetts voters shows the commander-in-chief is regarding as popular in the Bay state as the Yankees and Manhattan clam chowder – Biden’s approval rating among Democrats having fallen by 13 percentage points in three months.
The Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll released Tuesday shows 41% of registered voters in Massachusetts approve of the job Biden is doing, while 48% disapprove.
Among Democrats, Biden’s approval rating has fallen from 75% in April to 62% now, while more than one in four (26%) disapprove of his professional performance.
In the April edition of the Suffolk/Globe poll, voters in Massachusetts were split on Biden 46% to 46%.
Massachusetts has voted for Republican presidential candidates only five times in the past century, and Biden got 65% of the vote there in 2020.
The survey says voter worries regarding the economy are driving the president’s numbers down as two-thirds of Massachusetts voters say they think the US is either stuck in stagnation or in recession – although no official decision has been made on the latter issue.
In April, 35% of Commonwealth voters thought the United States was in a recession. Today, nearly 46% of voters say the same.
“A 10 point [increase] in a three-month period, this is something that policy makers, academics and ordinary people certainly need to consider,” said David Paleologos, director of the Center for Policy Research at Suffolk University. “The economy is really weighing on Bay State residents, so the fallout is really happening with the president.”
Eighteen months following Biden entered the White House, 54% of voters in Massachusetts say events in the United States have gone worse than expected, while only 10% say they have gone better than expected and 33% say it went as they expected.
The poll was released the same day a survey of New Hampshire Democrats showed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg narrowly ahead of Biden in the nation’s top primary state.
Buttigieg, 40, had the support of 17% of likely Democratic primary voters in the University of New Hampshire poll, while the incumbent might only manage 16%. California Governor Gavin Newsom and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), each had 10% support in the poll.
The same survey found that 74% of Granite State Democrats said they didn’t want Biden to run once more.
