The Official Trump 1.0 Approval Ratings Thread

[Middle-aged Europe]

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https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/826949540183957504

Haha

On Jan. 26 they had 35% in favour of impeaching Trump, and 50% against it. I wonder what surge is to expect here.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2017/01/americans-think-trump-will-be-worst-president-since-nixon.html

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Lol at the 3% of Trump voters that also say they favor impeachment.

#Trumpgrets


Gallup approvals remained unchanged today btw at 43/52.

[Middle-aged Europe]

CNN/ORC national poll, conducted Jan. 31 - Feb. 2:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2017/images/02/03/rel2a.-.trump.pdf

Trump job approval:
44% approve
53% disapprove

Among the 53% who disapprove of Trump in the CNN/ORC poll, 43% have a "strong" disapproval of him.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/donald-trump-approval-rating/index.html

[Middle-aged Europe]

Today's Gallup approvals:

Approve 42% (-2)
Disapprove 53% (+3)

That's the highest disapproval for Trump in a Gallup poll so far.

[Middle-aged Europe]

He always polled badly, even the day he won over 300 electoral votes.

Yes, and he ran against a candidate who was almost as disliked as him, and trusted even less (somehow). Trump isn't some magical politician whose unpopularity is irrelevant. It just so happens that when you pit two unliked candidates against each other, that attribute seems to cancel out in that race.

This. If the Democrats manage nominate a likeable candidate in 2020, Trump is toast. That is, if Trump is even on the ballot in 2020...

[Middle-aged Europe]

Have we ever had a President that had mostly disapproval ratings this early in his Presidency?

These are unsual and unprecendented circumstances though. Normally, when you manage to win a presidential election it's a foregone conclusion that you have to be a popular guy. At least in the beginning.

But this time, a generally disliked candidate defeated an equally disliked candidate in the electoral vote, while losing the popular vote. Trump never had the support of a plurality - let alone a majority - of voters. The same applied to George W. Bush of course. But then again, the voters didn't think that Bush was an narcissistic asshole.

[Middle-aged Europe]

LOL, West Virginia.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Jesus...

What's so shocking? Everybody knows he's a buffoon, a cheat, and a loser.

In fact, there's an editorial about the first weeks of the Trump presidency on German news site SPIEGEL ONLINE right now, titled ""BIG LOSER! SO SAD!" (in English). He's quickly becoming the world's laughing stock and comedy relief.

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At the current rate, Trump could reach Dubya's negative record of 25% approval in about three months from now. And that's indeed within the realm of possibility.

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Arkansas (Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College)

60% Approve
35% Disapprove

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R):

53% Approve
30% Disapprove

Do you support or oppose President Trump’s travel ban?

61% Support the Trump travel ban
34% Oppose the Trump travel ban

http://talkbusiness.net/2017/02/trump-popularity-unchanged-with-arkansas-voters-hutchinson-job-approval-solid

Because Arkansas is so high up on ISIS target list

Have you already forgotten the Little Rock massacre???

[Middle-aged Europe]

Gallup

Approve 42% (-1)
Disapprove 53% (+2)

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I wonder if the entirety of this presidency will be like this:

Trump says or does something incredibly stupid. Polls drop for a week or so. Trump recovers in the polls. Trump says or does something incredibly stupid again.

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Trump continues to crash big league in Gallup. Down to 39/55 today. I suppose you could conclude that health care is taking a toll on his numbers.

People are starting to notice they're getting screwed by Trump, huh?

[Middle-aged Europe]

Trump continues to crash big league in Gallup. Down to 39/55 today. I suppose you could conclude that health care is taking a toll on his numbers.

Has he been under 40 on Gallup before? I don't recall but at a glance only see him at 40.

He was at 38% on 2/16.

This was one day after Andy Puzder withdrew as Labor Secretary nominee, three days after the resignation of Michael Flynn and seven days after the Ninth Circuit upheld Washington v. Trump.

This is different now, however. Voters could be personally affected by government policy in a negative manner and everybody knows it. Hence it's the sharpest drop in a two-day time span so far.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The AHCA is anything but popular as well, polling at 24/49.

Tom Cotton was right... if AHCA passes like that the GOP is going to lose the House.

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iCitizen has it at 42/58.

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Wat.

According to their crosstabs, they broke the poll results down to the four Census Bureau regions: Northeast, South, Midwest, and West.

https://icitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/TrumpApproval_031617_Crosstabs_Final.pdf

So, maybe "West Coast" is a bit misleading as a description since it probably included Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Arizona as well.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Americans wondered what it would be like to have a non-politician as President, and they are finding out.

That's doing non-politicians a bit of an injustice, since Donald Trump is a special kind of non-politicianperson. I assume that someone like Bill Gates for instance would have made a significantly better president. Not that this is a particular hard task.

Still, Trump proves that is better to have a politician than a non-politician as president, since a previous political career can serve as sort of a vetting process. If Trump had been acting as a senator ten years ago as he's acting now, maybe he never would have gotten the Republican nomination. Or at least I hope so.

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For historical comparison, here are the Gallup approvals of U.S. presidents during mid-to-late March of their first year in office:

Obama 63%
Bush II 58%
Clinton 53%
Bush I 56%
Reagan 60%
Carter 75%
Nixon 65%

[Middle-aged Europe]

The collapse in support has to be due to the AHCA and wiretapping allegations.

And maybe Meals on Wheels aka Budgetgate.

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But for we know, he might try to engineer a another mid size or bigger war to make him a hero or "the horse in midstream" or creates a bubble to postpone the downturn until 21 or 22.

Considering how "competently" he has run things so far, he'll probably lose any war he starts.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Gallup remains pretty stable today

Approve 39% (+-0)
Disapprove 56% (+1)

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Gallup, MARCH 22-24

41 (-/-)
54 (-/-)

The next three days will be interesting to see. The Gallup poll which is released on Tuesday will be conducted 100% after AHCA has failed.

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Today's Gallup

Approve 36% (-4)
Disapprove 57% (+3)

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Today's Gallup

Approve 36% (-4)
Disapprove 57% (+3)

0.0

Lowest Gallup approval for Trump ever.

Second-highest disapproval so far.

(He had a 58% disapproval on March 18... five days after the CBO score on AHCA came out, three days after Muslim Ban 2.0 was blocked, and two days after his budget request was released.)