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Old 09-05-2018, 08:34 AM
 
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Trump's approval ratings were even lower than this on election day 2016, amiright?
No they were roughly 44-46% then and even then what did it matter.. He was not in office at all yet then.. Now he has been over 19 months
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:37 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Gee glad we are being kept up to date on the polls the dems are enjoying posting. Some of us have more important things to do than pay attention to polls that mean nothing at this stage of the game.
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:40 AM
 
Location: Living rent free in your head
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At this rate soon only 1/3 of the country, the lowest in history (well, it already beats that for a modern POTUS) will "approve" of the 5th grader.

I wonder, at that point, if this tiny minority will still think they are the "right" ones and that 2/3 of the country and 95% of the rest of the world is wrong.

My take is yes...they will. What is yours??

https://fivethirtyeight.com/

39.8% Approve!
Even Rasmussen which has a +5 or +6 R bias has him at 44% OUCH!
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Southern Nevada
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Yep, we've all been had. The booming economy, record low unemployment, record consumer confidence, high GDP, businesses prospering, job growth .... all these things must be figments of our imagination.

The country is in better shape than it's been in years and the lefties just want to tear it down in favor of socialism, open borders, illegal aliens, high taxes, and big government control over everything. Tell me how that benefits anyone?

If the left come up with something better, I'll listen, but to date your incessant daily whining is just annoying. If you think you're proving a point, you are sadly mistaken.
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Living rent free in your head
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The only people being had are the ones believing polls lol
You really don't understand polls, do you? When you ask people how they will vote you are calculating what will happen in the future, that can change at any time. When you ask people their opinion of a politician it's not necessary to guess about how many will vote or change their minds, it's is how they feel right now, that's easily measurable and not controversial unless the question itself is biased or loaded.
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:44 AM
 
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The only people being had are the ones believing polls lol
Trump believes in polls.
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:47 AM
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I always wondered how a billionaire and a millionaire convinced poor people that America wasn't great and that the system was broken. It is obviously working pretty well for them.
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:48 AM
 
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The only people being had are the ones believing polls lol
Last I checked, the final estimate of Trump's chances were 1 in 4 on the morning of the election. That's not 1 in 100. That's 1 in 4. And the national popular vote margin was spot on (estimated to be about 2% and it was 2.1%)

It doesn't make the polls wrong that the leading candidate lost. It makes your interpretation of it wrong.

Think of it this way. I think we'd all agree that if we flip a coin, there's a 50% chance of getting heads and a 50% chance of getting tails. Now, if I told you to flip a coin on Nov 8 2016 and if it came up heads twice in a row, that is equal to the chance of Trump winning, I think you'd realize the chances weren't great, but he indeed had a chance.

Now, Trump won. It came up heads twice. Does it mean that coins don't have a 50% chance to land on tails just because you got heads twice? No, of course not. There's a track history showing that coins generally have a 50% chance of showing heads on a flip.

And saying "polls are wrong" is the same as saying coins don't have a 50/50 chance because you found one instance where you got heads twice in a row as opposed to the track history that shows that they can be fairly accurate.
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:49 AM
 
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What is "to be had" ? I made the choice that best fit my ideals at the time, there were no other better ones. We are working on the second SCOTUS pick , not to mention the 56 other judges he's appointed. Other than the whole "bump stock" debacle I've heard nothing on the anti 2A front, small business and consumer confidence is at an all time high, my 401k is doing great, my home value is still going up and here in the automotive manufacturing business we are going gangbusters on 2023 programs, illegal immigration is down 60%..... I've got nothing to be unhappy with there.


Did health care get figured out, no
Did the tax reform thing help, for myself , it's too early to tell.
Does he come across as a moron in public , sure.
Does it suck that our country has just continued to become more polarized, after starting with Obama's term, yes, and I don't see any change to that.
Has he hit 100% in my book...no, but not a single president ever has.


Again, what is "to be had" ?
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Old 09-05-2018, 08:49 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Gilead
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The only people being had are the ones believing polls lol
Except for Rasmussen. All polls are fake but that one because it's favorable to Trump. That's how we know it's the real deal because everyone just LOVES Trump. Trump and his supporters say so and they have the final verdict on what truth is.
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