Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer now carries the worst approval rating of his entire career.

A new Marist poll puts just 27% of respondents rating the New York Democrat's performance as excellent or good, Straight Arrow News reported. Forty-one percent say he is doing a poor job.

That's a 7-point drop from last year and the lowest mark since Marist began tracking Schumer in 1999, the same year he entered the Senate. Nearly three decades in Washington, and the public has never been less impressed.

The Schumer Problem

The left-leaning media barely touched this story, which is telling. When a Republican senator polls badly, the coverage writes itself. When the Democratic leader in the Senate hits rock bottom with voters, the silence is deafening.

And what exactly has Schumer done to earn this slide? He's spent the last year as minority leader fumbling the opposition playbook, unable to land punches or articulate a vision that resonates beyond the progressive base. Voters seem to have noticed that Schumer's Senate Democrats are long on press conferences and short on results.

A 27% approval rating for a man who has held his seat since 1999 isn't just a bad number. It's a verdict. New Yorkers and Americans broadly are telling Schumer that seniority alone doesn't earn trust. Leadership requires something more than longevity, and the polling suggests he hasn't delivered it.

Texas Has a Different Problem

Meanwhile, in Texas, a story the right-leaning media largely ignored deserves honest attention. The Texas State Board of Education voted 8-6 to approve revisions to its new Bible-based school curriculum after officials identified more than 4,000 issues in the materials.

The corrections span factual errors, punctuation mistakes, and image licensing and copyright problems. The textbooks are already in circulation, though it remains unclear how many schools have adopted the optional curriculum.

Conservatives rightly champion the inclusion of the Bible in educational settings. The Bible is the most influential text in Western civilization. Its stories, moral frameworks, and historical significance belong in any serious curriculum that purports to teach children about the foundations of American culture and law.

But four thousand errors is not a rounding error. It's a quality control failure, and it hands opponents an easy weapon. Every factual mistake in a Bible-based textbook becomes ammunition for those who want religion scrubbed from public education entirely. If Texas wants to lead on faith-informed curricula, the execution has to be airtight. The cause is too important to undermine with sloppy workmanship.

Two Stories the Media Didn't Want You to See

What makes these stories interesting together is what they reveal about partisan media habits. Left-leaning outlets ignored the Schumer poll because it embarrasses their team. Right-leaning outlets glossed over the Texas curriculum mess because it complicates a policy they support.

Conservatives should be better than that. Acknowledging that a Bible curriculum shipped with thousands of errors doesn't mean abandoning the principle behind it. It means demanding excellence in its execution. Shoddy materials don't honor the Bible or the students reading it.

As for Schumer, his historic unpopularity tells a story that transcends one senator. The Democratic Party's leadership class is aging, disconnected, and increasingly unable to read the room. Schumer has been in office since the Clinton administration. His approval trajectory suggests voters are ready for something different, even if the party apparatus isn't.

One senator who can't lead. One state that rushed its homework. Both stories matter. Both deserved better coverage than they got.