Is Joe Biden actually that unpopular, or is polarization distorting his approval rating? | No. 180 — January 23, 2022

In which I show you some math that illustrates why you need to take polarization into account when comparing Biden's approval rating presidents'

Harry Enten, an elections and polling analyst for CNN, writes this weekend that “Only Trump was in worse electoral shape than Biden after his first year as president.” His article focuses on historical job approval ratings, and he writes::

Start out by just looking at his overall job approval ratings. Biden has an approval rating of only about 41% and a …