Hopefully Hoping For Biden

Published: March 8, 2022, 5:14 p.m.

There was a striking moment on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. Moderator Chuck Todd brought up a poll recently released by NPR and Marist that showed President Joe Biden's job approval rating at 47%, with a disapproval rating of 50%. The screen showed that poll in contrast to another NPR/Marist survey from two weeks earlier that showed Biden's approval rating at 39%, with a 55% disapproval rating. One poll was done before Biden's State of the Union address and the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the other was done after. What happened?