
via National Review
Feb 25, 2025
M3 Strategies, the pollster, is a GOP-affiliated group...nothing about the numbers it is reporting here is shocking save for the extreme depths to which Johnson has sunk.
I’ve lived long enough to know what it looks like when a politician truly craters in the polling. I’m not talking about “Donald Trump after January 6”–level unpopularity -- those are rookie numbers. I’m talking about that swooning, sickeningly dizzying feeling when you see the bottom just fall out from underneath a pol (maybe one you like, maybe one you loathe), and he simply no longer has many public friends. I remember George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama after Obamacare went online, Karen Bass after the Los Angeles fires, and Joe Biden after That Debate. My reflexive response ...