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and again....the same polls that said Hillary was leading by a landslide.
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Originally Posted by Bureaucat
Average Approval of Presidents After 2 Years In Office
Best To Worst in History
1. John F. Kennedy: Approve 74% Disapprove 13% (Net +61%)
2. George W. Bush: Approve 72% Disapprove 24% (Net +48%)
3. Lyndon B. Johnson: Approve 70% Disapprove 16% (Net +54%)
4. George H.W. Bush: Approve 69% Disapprove 27% (Net +42%)
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Approve 67% Disapprove 19% (Net +48%)
6. Richard M. Nixon: Approve 59% Disapprove 23% (Net +36%)
7. Ronald Reagan: Approve 56% Disapprove 36% (Net +20%)
8. Harry Truman: Approve 55% Disapprove 32% (Net +23%)
9. Barack Obama: Approve 55% Disapprove 41% (Net +14%)
10. Jimmy Carter: Approve 54% Disapprove 30% (Net +24%)
11. Bill Clinton: Approve 51% Disapprove 43% (Net +8%)
12. Gerald Ford: Approve 46% Disapprove 37% (Net +9%) 13. Donald Trump: Approve 38% Disapprove 57% (Net -19%)
Donald Trump is the only President in Polling History to be underwater after 2 years in office, and he’s underwater by a mile. Usually, a President is more popular in the first years of his term than later on. The only exception to that among his polled predecessors was Reagan.
If you add the definitely will vote for Trump and might vote for Trump categories, you get 44%, which is about the high water mark of Trump approval in polls, which means that even some Trump supporters are uncertain that they would vote for him again.
Trump has to have a major third party candidate siphoning off votes, because he can’t win a one on one matchup against anyone.
Howard Schultz to the rescue.
That 56% definitely not re-elect has to be the most negative for an incumbent President at the midway point in the history of American politics.
He gained a point! Hey, pay people and some of them will change their minds!
But he can't get out of his own way. Note that he did a good thing (opened the government) but yet threatened to close it again. A real politician would have just opened it again and said "they MUST make a deal".....and left threats unsaid.
Always remember - whatever Trump says or does is - by definition - "right" to most of his followers. Sadly, only 2-3% of them (actually 7% if measured against his supporters rather than the population) dumped him (approval-disapproval) during the recent mess.
Trump's approval ratings are fine. Especially if you consider his ratings have gone UP among minorities since he took office.
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Trump’s situation is not as dire as Democrats might hope, since his approval rating has stubbornly refused to budge.
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It has been 712 days since Trump became president. That many days into his own presidency, President Ronald Reagan had less public support than Trump does, according to a tracker from the political science website FiveThirtyEight.
President Barack Obama, whose first-day approval bested Trump’s by more than 20 percentage points, was less than 5 percentage points more popular than Trump 712 days in. President Bill Clinton was less than 2 percentage points more popular.
Of course, voters sent all three former presidents back to the Oval Office for a second term.
I think he's like 75/25 odds of winning re-election.
People are in such denial - they think Trump is going to lose support. Trump's voters are not going anywhere, heck even Ann Coulter will vote for him again. This should have been obvious 3 years when among other things he made fun of McCain being a POW and mocked mentally disabled people and his numbers did not dip. He summed it up best by making a handgun gesture and stating "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters."
What people need to understand is that Trump is a useful idiot. His voters KNOW he's a slimy businessman with no ethics, they knew it before and they know it now. IT DOES NOT MATTER. He's not there to conduct sermons and hold hands, he's there as a bulldog to change the course of Washington.
The winner of 2020 will completely depend on who the challenger is. If it's another left leaning, permissive on illegal immigration and soft on trade deals left winger, forget it he is getting another 4 years you can bank on it. If the challenger is an appealing centrist candidate who believes in fairness and the rule of law, he will probably not make it
People are in such denial - they think Trump is going to lose support. Trump's voters are not going anywhere, heck even Ann Coulter will vote for him again. This should have been obvious 3 years when among other things he made fun of McCain being a POW and mocked mentally disabled people and his numbers did not dip. He summed it up best by making a handgun gesture and stating "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters."
What people need to understand is that Trump is a useful idiot. His voters KNOW he's a slimy businessman with no ethics, they knew it before and they know it now. IT DOES NOT MATTER. He's not there to conduct sermons and hold hands, he's there as a bulldog to change the course of Washington.
The winner of 2020 will completely depend on who the challenger is. If it's another left leaning, permissive on illegal immigration and soft on trade deals left winger, forget it he is getting another 4 years you can bank on it. If the challenger is an appealing centrist candidate who believes in fairness and the rule of law, he will probably not make it
Exactly.
I didn't vote for him because of his integrity or the fact he was a choir boy; I voted for him for the Supreme Court (and to a lesser extent that he would in some way get a wall built).
His chances are good...though we're not going to hear that from the dishonest fake news "media".
............He's not there to conduct sermons and hold hands, he's there as a bulldog to change the course of Washington.
The winner of 2020 will completely depend on who the challenger is. If it's another left leaning, permissive on illegal immigration and soft on trade deals left winger, forget it he is getting another 4 years you can bank on it. If the challenger is an appealing centrist candidate who believes in fairness and the rule of law, he will probably not make it
That's about it. All these predictions of whether he will win or lose are meaningless until after the DNC decides who will run. And unless the DNC has changed its rules, they will make the choice, not the Democrat voters. The DNC pretended to allow a fair vote, but actually the voters were never given a choice - it was always going to be Hillary.
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