And two-thirds of reliable Democratic and Republican voters say they’d still support their party’s political candidate, even if that person had a moral failing that wasn’t consistent with their own values. Biden’s approval, nation’s direction remain steadyIn the poll, 45% of registered voters approve of Biden’s overall job performance, while 52% disapprove — unchanged from September. In the October 2010 NBC News/WSJ poll, Barack Obama’s approval rating was 45% (when Democrats lost 63 House seats in the midterm election). Seventy-one percent of voters say the country is headed in the wrong direction, compared with 20% who say it’s on the right track. And 60% say Biden won legitimately in 2020, compared with 33% (and 65% of Republicans) who say he didn’t.
