Biden drags Democrats down

BIDEN DRAGS DEMOCRATS DOWN. Most of us see President Joe Biden's falling job approval rating as a measure of his declining popularity. But for every candidate, Democrat or Republican, running for the House or Senate this year, Biden's numbers mean political life or death. That is because the president's job approval rating is an extraordinarily important factor in the midterm elections.

Biden's is low and going lower. A new Pew poll puts Biden at 41% approval versus 56% disapproval. Those results are very close to the RealClearPolitics average of several polls, which has Biden at 40.8%...