The Official Trump 1.0 Approval Ratings Thread

[I Won - Get Over It]

Rasmussen 3/5 - 3/9, 1500 LV  

Approve      48%(-1)
Disapprove 52%(+1)

Strongly:
Approve      32%(-1)
Disapprove 43%(+2)

Obama-effect...

[pbrower2a]

Rasmussen 3/5 - 3/9, 1500 LV  

Approve      48%(-1)
Disapprove 52%(+1)

Strongly:
Approve      32%(-1)
Disapprove 43%(+2)

Obama-effect...

It just keeps getting worse.

[I Won - Get Over It]

Gallup, 3/7 - 3/9   1500 A

Approve      42% (+1)
Disapprove 52%  (-1)

[I Won - Get Over It]

Ipsos, 3/7 - 3/9, compared to 2/28-3/4   

1629 A http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/CP3_2
Approve      49% (+4)
Disapprove 45%  (-3)

1394 RV http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/CP3_2/filters/PD1:1
Approve      51% (+4)
Disapprove 45%  (-3)

482 LV&RV http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/CP3_2/filters/PD1:1,LIKELY:1
Approve      50% (+3)
Disapprove 46%  (-2)

[Bandit3 the Worker]

lol...Reuters goes positive while Rassmussen goes negative. WTF

Reuters has been a right-wing organ for a long time.

[I Won - Get Over It]

SurveyMonkey, 3/3 - 3/9, compared to 2/24-3/2    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BztOs71zt1WpRnRGOFFaWkREN0k/view

12257 A
Approve      47% (+2)
Disapprove 52%  (-2)

8947 RV
Approve      49% (+2)
Disapprove 50%  (-3)

[ProgressiveCanadian]

A lot of Americans are still getting bamboozled.

[Devout Centrist]

A lot of Americans are still getting bamboozled.

They're active particapants, though.

[Lief 🗽]

A lot of Americans are still getting bamboozled.

nah, they're getting exactly what they wanted (a white nationalist administration)

[I Won - Get Over It]

Gallup, 3/7 - 3/9   1500 A

Approve      42% (+1)
Disapprove 52%  (-1)

Gallup, 3/8- 3/10   1500 A

Approve      44% (+2)
Disapprove  49% ( -3)


Trump's best numbers since January (Gallup).

A lot of Americans are still getting bamboozled.

nah, they're getting exactly what they wanted (a white nationalist administration)

Ahh, sort of!

[Hindsight was 2020]

Gallup, 3/7 - 3/9   1500 A

Approve      42% (+1)
Disapprove 52%  (-1)

Gallup, 3/8- 3/10   1500 A

Approve      44% (+2)
Disapprove  49% ( -3)


Trump's best numbers since January (Gallup).

A lot of Americans are still getting bamboozled.

nah, they're getting exactly what they wanted (a white nationalist administration)

Ahh, sort of!

Not a surprise his approval goes up in tracking polls whenever he has a week were he shuts up.

[Ronnie]

I think it's quite possible he'll have a net positive rating sooner or later, but I also believe his ceiling is historically low for an incumbent president.  He might not ever have more than 55% or so of Americans on his side, unless something cataclysmic happens, like a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11.

[Mr. Morden]

I think it's quite possible he'll have a net positive rating sooner or later, but I also believe his ceiling is historically low for an incumbent president.  He might not ever have more than 55% or so of Americans on his side, unless something cataclysmic happens, like a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11.

Excluding the "honeymoon period" during his first six months and the "riding off into the sunset" period during his final month or so in office, wasn't the same true of Obama?  Sure, there were a few individual polls where he was above 55%, but when else was the polling average for him higher than that, excluding the very beginning and the very end?  Trump of course isn't getting the same kind of early honeymoon period that Obama got, but I think if he follows the Obama trajectory from the middle of his first year onwards, he'd be very happy with that.

[CapoteMonster]

I think it's quite possible he'll have a net positive rating sooner or later, but I also believe his ceiling is historically low for an incumbent president.  He might not ever have more than 55% or so of Americans on his side, unless something cataclysmic happens, like a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11.

Excluding the "honeymoon period" during his first six months and the "riding off into the sunset" period during his final month or so in office, wasn't the same true of Obama?  Sure, there were a few individual polls where he was above 55%, but when else was the polling average for him higher than that, excluding the very beginning and the very end?  Trump of course isn't getting the same kind of early honeymoon period that Obama got, but I think if he follows the Obama trajectory from the middle of his first year onwards, he'd be very happy with that.

He was around 55% for pretty much all of 2009 and around his second inauguration, but your pretty much right in that people were split on Obama for most of his presidency.

[jdk]

Gallup, 3/7 - 3/9   1500 A

Approve      42% (+1)
Disapprove 52%  (-1)

Gallup, 3/8- 3/10   1500 A

Approve      44% (+2)
Disapprove  49% ( -3)


Trump's best numbers since January (Gallup).

A lot of Americans are still getting bamboozled.

nah, they're getting exactly what they wanted (a white nationalist administration)

Ahh, sort of!

Not a surprise his approval goes up in tracking polls whenever he has a week were he shuts up.

It is pretty sad where the bar he has set for himself is so low all he has to do is not completely embarrass himself for a couple days and his approval rating goes up, and he still can't behave long enough to even reach 45%

[I Won - Get Over It]

Gallup, 3/8- 3/10   1500 A

Approve      44% (+2)
Disapprove  49% ( -3)


Trump's best numbers since January (Gallup).

Gallup, 3/9- 3/11   1500 A

Approve      45% (+1)
Disapprove  49% (---)

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

So, when Trump keeps his mouth shut for an extended period of time, his approvals go up, but when he says something stupid, it goes down?

[Ronnie]

So, when Trump keeps his mouth shut for an extended period of time, his approvals go up, but when he says something stupid, it goes down?

Yeah, it's been that way since the very beginning, as far as I can tell.

[Reaganfan]

So, when Trump keeps his mouth shut for an extended period of time, his approvals go up, but when he says something stupid, it goes down?

Yeah, it's been that way since the very beginning, as far as I can tell.

Someone noted on CNN I believe a few months ago that they believe the President "polls bad". So as in the campaign, perhaps we should take any polls, good or bad, with a grain of salt.

[pbrower2a]

So, when Trump keeps his mouth shut for an extended period of time, his approvals go up, but when he says something stupid, it goes down?

Yeah, it's been that way since the very beginning, as far as I can tell.

Someone noted on CNN I believe a few months ago that they believe the President "polls bad". So as in the campaign, perhaps we should take any polls, good or bad, with a grain of salt.

No poll is perfect. Note the 'margin of error'. The definitive poll is the election.

Donald Trump masterfully played desperation and resentments. Other pols had no solution for the end of the age in which industrial toil was adequate for living a good life. We liberals never had a problem with industrial workers getting paid well for doing jobs that many of us could never have done except at gunpoint. People deserve to be paid well for doing those jobs. But will economic reality comply?

The 'Establishment' Right, the Chamber of Commerce types who believe that a healthy economy that fosters corporate profits will create a just order, turned to importing instead of manufacturing about 35 years ago to undercut manufacturing. So we have plenty of stuff made in foreign sweatshops instead of in America. But even without Big Business becoming importers instead of manufacturers we would still have the problem of saturation of manufactured needs.  We have gone from having to buy to get thoroughly-new stuff to replace stuff as it wears out, becomes dowdy, or becomes technologically obsolete. 

Are there still people using VHS or cassette tapes? Still watching CRT televisions? Those who do might get to enjoy a 1990s lifestyle cheaply. If one is poor in America one might do that. I would encourage people just starting out in life to do so while they amass some savings. You can't eat style.

Liberals have traditionally been good at standing with labor unions as the best means for achieving fair pay and good working conditions. Big Business hates unions, preferring to use fear as a tool of management. People scared of hunger might take a pay cut just to hold a job when jobs are scarce -- and of course keep jobs scarce. The only difference between modern capitalists or executives on the one side and feudal princes or antebellum planters is that capitalists and executives can't get away with what feudal prices and antebellum planters used to get away with. If you wonder how the antebellum planters dealt with the reality of slavery with its exploitation and dehumanization of slaves, then historical records show that those exploitative, dehumanizing slave-masters saw themselves as benefactors to 'their (and in a very possessive sense of the pronoun)' slaves and could not imagine how non-slave-holding Northerners who had small farms or small businesses could be so dense as to not see a 'reality' so self-evident to the slave owners. 

Yes, I see the economic elites getting away with pathological narcissism and even sociopathic behavior that few of us could get away with. As someone who has been humbled in cr@ppy jobs in which subordination and deference are necessary traits of survival, I cannot escape resentment of people who treat others badly for personal gain. 

But we liberals cannot create jobs unless we can promise big infrastructure projects like Boston's  Big Dig or what has become the Pat Tillman Bridge on what will eventually be Interstate 11 or 13 connecting Las Vegas and Phoenix. Donald Trump has promised some big infrastructure projects, but those imply crony capitalism and 'looter' privatization. Giving public water projects to private monopolists and transforming current freeways into toll roads might not go over so well.

Donald Trump played the populist card that nobody else dared play, but he turned it in for the  profits-first ideology of Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and the other corporate interests which took over the Establishment while playing up bigotry that gentlemen now avoid. Now we see what we have. Donald Trump isn't going to convince liberals to give up their values even if he gets good economic results. He's going to need to create a vibrant economy, and the most that he can offer is another speculative boom... as if people who don't remember the housing boom of the Double-Zero decade want a repeat of the corrupt boom and the inevitable bust.

[I Won - Get Over It]

Rasmussen 3/5 - 3/9, 1500 LV  

Approve      48%(-1)
Disapprove 52%(+1)

Strongly:
Approve      32%(-1)
Disapprove 43%(+2)

Obama-effect...

Rasmussen 38 - 3/12, 1500 LV  

Approve      47% ( -1)
Disapprove  53% (+1)

Strongly:
Approve      31% (-1)
Disapprove  42% (-1)

Rasmussen shows -6 vs Gallup -4

[Hindsight was 2020]

Rasmussen 3/5 - 3/9, 1500 LV  

Approve      48%(-1)
Disapprove 52%(+1)

Strongly:
Approve      32%(-1)
Disapprove 43%(+2)

Obama-effect...

Rasmussen 38 - 3/12, 1500 LV  

Approve      47% ( -1)
Disapprove  53% (+1)

Strongly:
Approve      31% (-1)
Disapprove  42% (-1)

Rasmussen shows -6 vs Gallup -4

Crazy theory could he start doing worse in Rasmussen because consertives are more pissed over the health care bill?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Crazy theory could he start doing worse in Rasmussen because consertives are more pissed over the health care bill?

I think those who think the bill isn't conservative enough are so extreme that there just aren't that many people who think that way. We're talking Tea Party stuff here.

[pbrower2a]

Rasmussen 3/5 - 3/9, 1500 LV  

Approve      48%(-1)
Disapprove 52%(+1)

Strongly:
Approve      32%(-1)
Disapprove 43%(+2)

Obama-effect...

Rasmussen 38 - 3/12, 1500 LV  

Approve      47% ( -1)
Disapprove  53% (+1)

Strongly:
Approve      31% (-1)
Disapprove  42% (-1)

Rasmussen shows -6 vs Gallup -4

Crazy theory could he start doing worse in Rasmussen because consertives are more pissed over the health care bill?

Who knows -- we may be seeing the start of some splits among 'conservatives' on some key issues. 'Conservatives' toed the line quickly around the new President.

[Ronnie]

Or it's just noise and Rasmussen isn't a great pollster.