in this thread we will analyze the reason behind Trump's slump.
Stagnant wages? Racism? Tariffs?
All of the above? Other? Thanks.
John Harwood on Twitter
I understand Trump's approval is stuck on 42%. This begs a question.
What are 42% of Americans approving of?
We have the Omarosa fixation. Many view Omarosa as an unreliable opportunist, but Trump is obsessed. He is a well man.
CNN writes, "Now ask yourself this: Would you ever be as focused -- bordering on obsessed -- with someone who you didn't care about and who you genuinely believed was just saying all sorts of false things? Would you call that person all sorts of names -- including a number with quite clear racial under- (and over-) tones, if that person didn't matter? The answer of course is "no." The fact that Trump appears to be absolutely fixated on Omarosa -- and the book she wrote about her time in the White House -- speaks to the fact that Trump is concerned about what impact the allegations she makes about him might have."
Trump is confirming that much of what Omarosa is saying is true. Look at his Presidential statements, euphemistically called tweets.
"While I know it's 'not presidential' to take on a lowlife like Omarosa, and while I would rather not be doing so, this is a modern day form of communication and I know the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible."
"When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible,
because she only said GREAT things about me - until she got fired!" What an incredibly stupid statement to make.
"When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!"
That's our President speaking. Obviously, he has a mental problem.
Maybe one could get hired and fired by the same person (or company) twice in your life. Maybe. But four times? That speaks to something totally outside the ordinary, a compulsion of sorts.
What in the world are 42% of Americans approving of? I dearly would like to know.
Part of the reason for Trump's unlikely approval number is the support he gets from the rural south. Also, he does well in other rural areas of the U.S. with a low population. Rural areas tend to be less informed than suburban and urban areas. Also, while most educated people are turned off by Trump's obsession with Omarosa, it is entirely possible that many in the rural South applaud Trump for his tweets. See map. Green shows approval. Red shows disapproval.
No matter how you look at it, the majority of Americans, 60%, do not like Trump.
You mean 60% of those polled..
Polls have proven to be wrong when it comes to Trump..
But I have never allowed polls to influence me one way or the other.
I remember the 1980 election of Reagan and the far left going after the media for announcing Reagan as the winner before all the votes were counted, they claimed the media announcing so early affect the election. It is nothing new for the far left to blame others because they have horrid candidates..
When have the polls proven to be wrong when it comes to Trump? Be specific. Don't you dare mention the 2016 election. The final national polls on Nov. 8, 2016, were remarkably accurate. The poll in question is a national poll.
Of course, you have never accepted polls as long as Trump has been President. When Obama's approval rating slipped to 44%, I bet you believed in polls then.
Polls mean nothing until a week before the election. I think the 2016 election is a great example. Did the following polls truly reflect Trump's support from a couple months out to the just before the election? Was Clinton really up by 14+ points nationally just 12 days before the election?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/8115/mcclatchymarist-poll-clinton-15-hank-berrien
Another day, another
disastrous poll for Donald Trump. A new McClatchy/Marist poll conducted on Monday, August 1, found Clinton with a staggering 15-point lead, 48% to 33%.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/politics/new-hampshire-poll-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/index.html
Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton holds a double digit lead -- 15 points -- on Donald Trump in New Hampshire, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
http://time.com/4546942/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-lead-poll/
Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over
Donald Trump, polling 14 percentage points ahead nationally, according to a new
Associated Press-GfK poll, which comes 12 days before the presidential election.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/27/upshot/pennsylvania-poll.html
Hillary Clinton leads him by seven percentage points, 46 percent to 39 percent, in a four-way race. And in a contest that could decide control of the Senate, the Republican senator Pat Toomey trails the Democratic challenger Katie McGinty by three points.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/16/clinton-holds-11-point-national-lead-over-trump-nbcwsj-poll.html
Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump by double digits with just over three weeks until Election Day, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted entirely after the second presidential debate.
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/clinton-leads-trump-by-15-points-among-early-voters-1.5454487
With 11 days to go before the U.S. presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 15 percentage points among early voters surveyed in the past two weeks, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-clintons-big-lead-means-a-steadier-forecast/
A friend asked me the other day whether there’s anything preventing Hillary Clinton from rising further in our forecast, beyond what have generally been very good polls for her. Clinton’s chances
are up a bit — she’s hit
88 percent in our polls-only forecast, up slightly from 86 percent on Friday and 83 percent a week ago. In the polls-plus forecast, Clinton’s chances are
85 percent, up from 80 percent a week earlier
https://bearingdrift.com/2016/10/16/wason-poll-clinton-15-points-virginia/
Democrat Hillary Clinton now holds a 15-point advantage over Republican Donald Trump in Virginia, according to a tracking survey released Sunday by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University. Clinton leads Trump among likely voters in Virginia, 44-29 percent.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/25/upshot/north-carolina-poll.html
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New York Times Upshot/Siena College survey released on Tuesday confirms that Mr. Trump’s standing has deteriorated considerably. Hillary Clinton has a seven-point lead over Mr. Trump in North Carolina, 46 percent to 39 percent, among likely voters in a three-way race including the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.
http://www.kut.org/post/poll-hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-texas
Texas may be a battleground state this election, according to a new poll of all 50 states by the Washington Post, which shows Hillary Clinton with a narrow edge over Donald Trump in Texas 46 to 45 percent among registered voters.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/10/politics/clinton-leads-trump-wisconsin-poll/
Clinton leads Trump by 15 percentage points, 52% to 37%, among likely voters -- with 10% supporting neither candidate. That's a huge jump from the same poll's findings in July, when it had Clinton at 45% to Trump's 41%.
https://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/msu_state_of_the_state_survey.html
EAST LANSING, MI -- A survey from Michigan State University's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research suggests Democrat Hillary Clinton has a wide lead over Republican Donald Trump among Michigan's likely voters.
The quarterly State of the State Survey conducted by the institute tracked voters from Sept. 1 to Oct. 30 and found that among likely voters in Michigan, 52 percent said they would vote for Clinton and 32 percent said they would vote for Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/politics/ariona-poll-hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-by-five/index.html
(CNN)A new poll shows Democrat Hillary Clinton with a lead in the traditional Republican stronghold of Arizona, yet another sign of Donald Trump's shrinking path to the nomination.