BAD POLL FOR JOE – AND ONE THAT IS BOUND TO BE QUOTED WIDELY AND DISCUSSED PRIVATELY.  FROM NEWSMAX: 

Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: President Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president for a second term.

This is according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research which finds much of the public united in sizing up the one trait Biden cannot change.

The president has taken to raising the age issue himself, with wisecracks, as if trying to relax his audiences about his 80 trips around the sun.

Age discrimination may be banned in the workplace, but the president's employers — the people — aren't shy about their bias.

In the poll, 77% said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years. Not only do 89% of Republicans say that, so do 69% of Democrats. That view is held across age groups, not just by young people, though older Democrats specifically are more supportive of his 2024 bid.

In contrast, about half of U.S. adults say former President Donald Trump, 77, is too old for the office, and here the familiar partisan divide emerges — Democrats are far more likely to disqualify Trump by age than are Republicans.

What's clear from the poll is that Americans are saying out with the old and in with the young, or at least younger.

Democrats, Republicans, and independents want to sweep a broad broom through the halls of power, imposing age limits on the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court. In all about two-thirds of U.S. adults back an age ceiling on candidates for president and Congress and a mandatory retirement age for justices.

Specifically, 67% favor requiring Supreme Court justices to retire by a certain age, 68% support age ceilings for candidates for House and Senate, and 66% support age ceilings for candidates for president.

COMMENT:  There's no question that, given his obvious physical and cognitive problems, age is a serious problem for Joe Biden.  It may well be his most serious problem.   Should Trump not be on the ballot, Biden will be facing an opponent decades younger than himself.  The contrast could be devastating, especially if Biden agrees (highly unlikely) to a live debate.

This poll will be used in the whispering campaign within the Democratic Party, already begun, raising serious questions about Biden's ability to run for another term.

August 28, 2023