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Except that's not how it works in the US. We don't have the Legislature hold a vote of "No Confidence" forcing a new government to form or elections to be held.
Except that's not how it works in the US. We don't have the Legislature hold a vote of "No Confidence" forcing a new government to form or elections to be held.
As Nate Silver notes, Trump’s recent approval ratings vary from a high of 55 percent (with 45 percent disapproval) in the aforementioned Rasmussen poll to a low of 39 percent (with 56 percent disapproval) in a survey from Pew Research. The differences are most likely the result of a combination of sampling and survey techniques. Trump consistently does better with narrower samples. Rasmussen claims to be measuring likely voters, even though we are more than a year and a half away from the next national election. Pew is sampling all adults, a significantly larger universe than those who will ultimately vote in that next election. Rasmussen is also famously a robo-pollster, which means he’s only reaching the half of the electorate that has land lines. Pew utilizes a traditional live-interview methodology, which is generally thought to be more accurate, but that some theorize can be misleading with respect to highly controversial politicians like Trump.
The truth... a sample size of 1,000 people (or similar) does not extrapolate into representing the entirety of America.
I saw a lot of people recently claiming how accurate Rasmussen was when trying to negate Gallup approval ratings (Gallup didn't have an election prediction poll, by the way).
They may not always be right, and should always be taken with a grain of salt.
But they're not totally useless.
They're a snapshot of where we are as a country at that moment. And they do have impacts on the real world.
For instance, if a president's approval rating drops low enough (say below 30/25%), he will start to lose support of Congressional people in his party. The reason for this is that they will start to worry about their own behind, especially if they're up for re-election. They don't want to be attached to a sinking ship, so will do what they must to get away from that president.
This can serve to limit a president's ability to put forth an agenda.
No, there are a couple of diehards on here who will be hanging onto him even after he is gone from office. There will be them, and that guy who went up on the stage and who salutes his cardboard Trump every day. Loyalty like that is hard to kill.
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There will be them, and that guy who went up on the stage and who salutes his cardboard Trump every day. Loyalty like that is hard to kill.
