TRUMP' approval rating? Compare Trump back to Truman, "Actually is very unpopular PRES"

[centerleftFL]

What's the old line? There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics. HE lies. HE lies again HIS people believe him. STATISTICS show how much he lied. He is STILL underwater with well over half the population. 92% approval 47% of the population? That electoral college 'thing' REPUBLICANS have wanted abolished for decades, won't be TOUCHED now!

Donald Trump is actually a very unpopular president

Yes, his base likes him, but his overall numbers are terrible.
By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias[email protected] Jul 23, 2018, 1:30pm EDTSHARE

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Recent polling on President Donald Trump has increasingly been covered in a way that emphasizes Trump’s high numbers with self-identified Republicans rather than his low numbers with the American public.

For example, a new poll released on Monday shows Trump underwater by a 52-45 margin and gives Democrats a 6-point lead in the generic congressional ballot. But it was largely touted for showing that among Republicans, Trump has a better approval rating than Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and George H.W. Bush ever managed to achieve.


Ed O'Keefe

In @wsj/@nbcnews poll of Trump, this: “Of the four previous White House occupants, only George W. Bush, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, had a higher approval rating within his own party at the same point in his presidency." https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-approval-rating-inches-higher-buoyed-by-republican-support-1532293201 …

7:44 AM - Jul 23, 2018
Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Inches Higher, Buoyed by Republican Support
Donald Trump’s approval rating edged higher during a week in which he faced withering criticism following a summit with Vladimir Putin, signaling that he is positioned to weather the latest controv...

By the same token, over the weekend, an Axios/SurveyMonkey poll generated the headline “Poll: Huge GOP majority backs Trump’s Putin performance.”

In fact, the poll showed about what you would think — partisanship heavily influences evaluations of events — but Trump’s performance at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki was overall very unpopular and likely even hurt him at the margin with his precious base.

Axios
American politics has grown more polarized over time. It’s become easier for presidents to maintain the political support of their co-partisans than it was in the days when both party coalitions were regional hodgepodges with little underlying ideological coherence. This, combined with Trump’s personal focus on his base, has enabled Trump to mostly hang on to his GOP supporters.

The truth, however, is that Trump is an unpopular president by historical standards, and his party appears to be suffering predictable consequences.

Donald Trump is historically unpopular
A useful corrective to these niche polls showing Trump’s appeal to select segments of the electorate is to use FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker to compare his overall popularity to that of other presidents.

As you can see, at this point in their presidencies, every president going back 60 years — Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, and Dwight Eisenhower — was more popular than Trump is.

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Donald Trump is actually a very unpopular president

 

[airplanemechanic]

Why did you start another thread on Trumps popularity? Are there not like 3 currently running now?

 

[dave p]

What's the old line? There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics. HE lies. HE lies again HIS people believe him. STATISTICS show how much he lied. He is STILL underwater with well over half the population. 92% approval 47% of the population? That electoral college 'thing' REPUBLICANS have wanted abolished for decades, won't be TOUCHED now!

Donald Trump is actually a very unpopular president

Yes, his base likes him, but his overall numbers are terrible.
By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias[email protected] Jul 23, 2018, 1:30pm EDTSHARE

Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Recent polling on President Donald Trump has increasingly been covered in a way that emphasizes Trump’s high numbers with self-identified Republicans rather than his low numbers with the American public.

For example, a new poll released on Monday shows Trump underwater by a 52-45 margin and gives Democrats a 6-point lead in the generic congressional ballot. But it was largely touted for showing that among Republicans, Trump has a better approval rating than Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and George H.W. Bush ever managed to achieve.


Ed O'Keefe

In @wsj/@nbcnews poll of Trump, this: “Of the four previous White House occupants, only George W. Bush, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, had a higher approval rating within his own party at the same point in his presidency." https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-approval-rating-inches-higher-buoyed-by-republican-support-1532293201 …

7:44 AM - Jul 23, 2018
Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Inches Higher, Buoyed by Republican Support
Donald Trump’s approval rating edged higher during a week in which he faced withering criticism following a summit with Vladimir Putin, signaling that he is positioned to weather the latest controv...

By the same token, over the weekend, an Axios/SurveyMonkey poll generated the headline “Poll: Huge GOP majority backs Trump’s Putin performance.”

In fact, the poll showed about what you would think — partisanship heavily influences evaluations of events — but Trump’s performance at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki was overall very unpopular and likely even hurt him at the margin with his precious base.

Axios
American politics has grown more polarized over time. It’s become easier for presidents to maintain the political support of their co-partisans than it was in the days when both party coalitions were regional hodgepodges with little underlying ideological coherence. This, combined with Trump’s personal focus on his base, has enabled Trump to mostly hang on to his GOP supporters.

The truth, however, is that Trump is an unpopular president by historical standards, and his party appears to be suffering predictable consequences.

Donald Trump is historically unpopular
A useful corrective to these niche polls showing Trump’s appeal to select segments of the electorate is to use FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker to compare his overall popularity to that of other presidents.

As you can see, at this point in their presidencies, every president going back 60 years — Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, and Dwight Eisenhower — was more popular than Trump is.

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Donald Trump is actually a very unpopular president

And yet history has proven Truman to be one of our best Presidents. If the last election should tell you anything, its that polls are wrong.

 

[TNHarley]

You mean he has high support from his supporters but he has low support from people that dont support him?

 

[centerleftFL]

You mean he has high support from his supporters but he has low support from people that dont support him?

Yeah, that's pretty much how it works!

In this case OVER 1/2 of the population.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Polls say:

"Hillary in a landslide."

 

[toobfreak]

Why did you start another thread on Trumps popularity? Are there not like 3 currently running now?

Because he wants to prove that despite Trump's all time high of 45% approval in some polls, he's really really unpopular. It is VERY VERY important to the snowflakes that all news of Trump be bad so that they have some thread of hope to hang onto.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Trump has no path to the White House!

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

What's the old line? There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics. HE lies. HE lies again HIS people believe him. STATISTICS show how much he lied. He is STILL underwater with well over half the population. 92% approval 47% of the population? That electoral college 'thing' REPUBLICANS have wanted abolished for decades, won't be TOUCHED now!

Donald Trump is actually a very unpopular president

Yes, his base likes him, but his overall numbers are terrible.
By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias[email protected] Jul 23, 2018, 1:30pm EDTSHARE

Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Recent polling on President Donald Trump has increasingly been covered in a way that emphasizes Trump’s high numbers with self-identified Republicans rather than his low numbers with the American public.

For example, a new poll released on Monday shows Trump underwater by a 52-45 margin and gives Democrats a 6-point lead in the generic congressional ballot. But it was largely touted for showing that among Republicans, Trump has a better approval rating than Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and George H.W. Bush ever managed to achieve.

Ed O'Keefe

In @wsj/@nbcnews poll of Trump, this: “Of the four previous White House occupants, only George W. Bush, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, had a higher approval rating within his own party at the same point in his presidency." https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-approval-rating-inches-higher-buoyed-by-republican-support-1532293201 …

7:44 AM - Jul 23, 2018
Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Inches Higher, Buoyed by Republican Support
Donald Trump’s approval rating edged higher during a week in which he faced withering criticism following a summit with Vladimir Putin, signaling that he is positioned to weather the latest controv...

By the same token, over the weekend, an Axios/SurveyMonkey poll generated the headline “Poll: Huge GOP majority backs Trump’s Putin performance.”

In fact, the poll showed about what you would think — partisanship heavily influences evaluations of events — but Trump’s performance at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki was overall very unpopular and likely even hurt him at the margin with his precious base.

Axios
American politics has grown more polarized over time. It’s become easier for presidents to maintain the political support of their co-partisans than it was in the days when both party coalitions were regional hodgepodges with little underlying ideological coherence. This, combined with Trump’s personal focus on his base, has enabled Trump to mostly hang on to his GOP supporters.

The truth, however, is that Trump is an unpopular president by historical standards, and his party appears to be suffering predictable consequences.

Donald Trump is historically unpopular
A useful corrective to these niche polls showing Trump’s appeal to select segments of the electorate is to use FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker to compare his overall popularity to that of other presidents.

As you can see, at this point in their presidencies, every president going back 60 years — Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, and Dwight Eisenhower — was more popular than Trump is.

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Donald Trump is actually a very unpopular president

Which makes sense given the fact that Trump is terrible president.