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The first Reuters Poll gives Biden an approval rating of 57, with 32 disapproving.
Their final poll for his predecessor gave Trump 35% approval, 63% disapproving.
I don't think Trump ever had 57% approval in any poll, even Rasmussen.
It's fairly simple really, if the Democrats don't nuke the filibuster they won't pass anything, because there's absolutely no chance of them swinging 10 GOP senators to vote for any bill. And if they're concerned about hurting their future electoral chances, they should probably realize that if they don't follow through on any of the promises they made during the campaign they're likely to lose the Senate in 2022 anyway. The sensible play is to just push through as much legislation as possible now, accept that this might create a backlash, but as the long term benefits of these policies start to play out and have positive impacts on society, that voters will be too be attached to them for any future GOP administration to undo them, just like what happened with Obamacare. Preserving the filibuster effectively favors the status quo, which suits Republicans just fine, and if four years of Trump weren't enough to hand the Democrats a 60 vote supermajority, then nothing will. This is not the time to play nice, this is the time to learn how to play power politics the way the right has been doing for 40 some odd years.
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Yeah, I get why they should. I'm wondering why they aren't. The whole point of Georgia being so important was control, and the ability to not be in this position right now. Ram through good policies, Republicans be damned!
To be fair, Biden has a lifetime of government experience, and 8 years as the VP, vs Trump's 0 years of any Government. I'd expect nothing less of Biden.
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Moderates can have more impact by voting in primaries. Ten million people voting for an independent party won't help the party win, but five million people voting in the Democratic or Republican primaries would be an important constituency. Just under 37 million people voting in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, and turnout is much lower for other races.
I also suspect that moderates would also be temperamentally unlikely to do something radical like form a new party. If there is a new party it would probably come from people who think Democrats aren't left-wing enough, or that Republicans aren't right-wing enough.
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Oh, please . . .
the problem is what is perceived as the "Republican Party" in terms of extremes.
There are Republicans out there who are not as ridiculous as the likes of Ted Cruz, but idiots like Cruz are so bombastic that they drown out the others in the party. Yes, there need to be more Republicans who speak up AND can work with the other side at times. (Its times like this I miss guys like John McCain, a person who could agree with other side some times.)