Colin Reed: Biden's awful approval ratings tell us he has completely misread the issues people care about

Biden's current low approval numbers are typically seen in the latter half of a president’s second term when the nation is ready for a new direction.

Numbers this low are usually reserved for the latter half of a president’s second term when the nation is ready for a new direction. But for Biden, the poll comes less than a year after his inauguration, less than a week after his Democrats suffered a series of setbacks in the off year gubernatorial races and exactly one year before the country decides control of Congress for the remainder of his first term, where the GOP now enjoys a 46%-to-38% advantage on a generic congressional ballot.