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"President-elect Donald Trump approaches Inauguration Day with a significantly lower favorable rating than his three immediate predecessors received when they were presidents-elect. Trump's 40% favorable rating is roughly half of what Barack Obama enjoyed before his inauguration in 2009 (78%) and is much lower than the pre-inaugural ratings for George W. Bush (62%) and Bill Clinton (66%)."
"President-elect Donald Trump approaches Inauguration Day with a significantly lower favorable rating than his three immediate predecessors received when they were presidents-elect.
Who cares? He won.
The polls were wrong about his chances. Don't believe them.
As for the presidential polls, they were quite accurate: They predicted that Clinton would win the popular vote, which she did.
That is right. In terms of predicting the national popular vote outcome, the national polls did remarkably well in 2016. Granted, pollsters blew it in predicting the electoral college outcome which is measured differently.
But in terms of measuring national public opinion on big picture issues polling is still quite reliable.
Bottom line: if Trump supporters see something they don't like: call it fake news.
That may be one of the most damaging impacts of the Trump/Putin campaign in 2016. The truth is gone...there is no longer a baseline of common facts from which to construct our public dialogue. Trump built his political persona on the birther lie, etc.
Though to throw a bone to Trump supporters, his low approval ratings as of Jan. 2017 mean he has only one way to go and that is up. I believe he still has a decent chance at being a popular president.
Demagogues are skilled manipulators. If Trump gets a sweeping tax cut plan plus increased infrastructure spending he will be able to please many key constituencies. In the long run, he may do major damage to the economy but in the shorter run (2 to 4 years) he could be popular.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
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