So far the Russian invasion of the Ukraine hasn’t effected Biden’s nor the Democrats in congress approval/favorable ratings. Biden improved from 41 to 42% overall approval, congressional democrats from 22 to 23%, considering the margin of error of plus or minus 3 points, they’re the same as 3 weeks ago. The generic congressional ballot hasn’t moved, 45-43 in favor of the Republicans. This doesn’t mean there won’t be movement in the future especially if the war escalates. Time will tell.
What the polls are showing is most Americans are against Putin and invasion, but don’t want to get involved militarily. Sanctions are good, but that is as far as most Americans want to go. Interestingly is 20% of Americans want us to send Troops to the Ukraine to fight the Russians. The partisan breakdown of that is 25% of Democrats, 18% of Republicans, 17% of Independents in favor of sending in our military to help the Ukraine fight the Russians.
It seems the bottom line is most Americans are sympathetic to the Ukrainian’s, but don’t want to get involved militarily. 68% of all Americans approve of sanctions only, 65% sending weapons, military aid to the Ukraine. That’s as far as most are willing to go.
Kind of off topic with the above. But the bottom line is Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine hasn’t helped nor hurt Biden’s and the Democrats chances for the upcoming midterms. Usually when something like this happens, there’s a temporary spike for the president. That hasn’t happened. Probably because the invasion, the war doesn’t top domestic issues. The war probably won’t be a top priority or issue as long as we’re not involved militarily. My SWAG on this.
