Trump Approval Rating Watch thread.

[Puffnstuff]

Does he still love the uneducated?

But of course he does sir and he's counting on them for his last 4 years.

 

[woolfe9998]

Yeah for sure an outlier, but the average is still +7 for Dems. I don't see the Repubs keeping the House at this point without major changes in the next 18 months.

Yeah +7 average, but maybe it should be a bit higher because the PPP poll is the only recent one. The generic ballot polls aren't taken as often as POTUS approval polls. The last one before PPP was not only before the events of today and yesterday. It was before even the Comey firing.

 

[ch33zw1z]

So next up will be some terrorist attack and an all out war. Gotta keep Con base appeased.

 

[Puffnstuff]

So next up will be some terrorist attack and an all out war. Gotta keep Con base appeased.

Just how is it that war mongering is considered to be a conservative trait? Church people have some really twisted values and definitions for conservatism and I've had my fair share of disagreements with them over this.

 

[IronWing]

Just how is it that war mongering is considered to be a conservative trait? Church people have some really twisted values and definitions for conservatism and I've had my fair share of disagreements with them over this.

Nixon's continued escalation of the Vietnam War and secret war in Cambodia and Laos
Reagan's wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Lebanon, Libya, and Angola. Reagan's extension of the Cold War and asinine saber rattling. Shooting down an Iranian airliner
Bush's wars in Kuwait, Iraq, and Panama
Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and attempted coup in Venezuela
Obama's wars Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya

Conservatives have a history of killing people.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Just how is it that war mongering is considered to be a conservative trait? Church people have some really twisted values and definitions for conservatism and I've had my fair share of disagreements with them over this.

Onward Christian soldiers, they've even got a song

 

[Pens1566]

Guessing it hits 35 once the Comey story and Russian leak are factored in.

 

[alien42]

and that drop below 40% just happened...

54.1% disapproval and 39.9% approval

just how low will it go by weeks end?

and the 538 avg just hit an all time low, 54.3% disapproval and 39.7% approval.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Onward Christian soldiers, they've even got a song

Sadly that is supposed to be a spiritual battle not a physical one which they are supposed to fight through prayer, faith and fasting. Next I suppose that they'll want Congress to allocate funds for a Jesus shaped fighter jet and Jerry Falwell's picture on the $20 bill.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Sadly that is supposed to be a spiritual battle not a physical one which they are supposed to fight through prayer, faith and fasting. Next I suppose that they'll want Congress to allocate funds for a Jesus shaped fighter jet and Jerry Falwell's picture on the $20 bill.

it's all good. God the father, God the son, and God the holy spirit fully support ending their creations to further his word.

 

[Puffnstuff]

it's all good. God the father, God the son, and God the holy spirit fully support ending their creations to further his word.

Well brother I said that tongue in cheek because what organized religion is doing is just so ludicrous that even I must balk at it. Nobody will take a bona fide Christian seriously anymore because of what these mouth pieces are doing with all of their running around in God's name and they don't even know him. These church actors have behaved the same way since the beginning and will never stop doing these idiotic things to people. Seeing Trump give the commencement speech for Liberty U was like handing your infant daughter over to the big bad wolf and expecting him to behave himself.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Indeed. True Christians are tough to come by.

I lost my religion at about 10. Was forced to go until I got a job that was on weekend mornings.

The hypocrisy was too intense. I'm not good at pretending like that.

Christians nowadays want everyone else to be a Christian, or else.

I know that not all of them are like that, but there's enough in my xp that genralizing it is no problem.

 

[alien42]

and the 538 avg just hit an all time low, 54.3% disapproval and 39.7% approval.

and the slide not only continues but gains momentum, 54.9% disapproval and 38.9% approval.

 

[Sonikku]

Honestly I'm surprised it's even as high as 39% approval. That's a huge chunk of the population.

 

[alien42]

Honestly I'm surprised it's even as high as 39% approval. That's a huge chunk of the population.

it's a moving average so a drastic shift would be unusual. even W retained a 25% approval at the end of his disastrous 8 years.

 

[shortylickens]

Approval Rating means absolutely nothing.
Trump will spend the next 3 and a half years doing whatever he wants regardless of what 300 million people say.
And congress will never impeach him either.

 

[alien42]

Approval Rating means absolutely nothing.
Trump will spend the next 3 and a half years doing whatever he wants regardless of what 300 million people say.
And congress will never impeach him either.

of course it does and he won't do what he wants, just as he hasn't for the most part. the travel ban failed, healthcare isn't changing, a wall isn't being built, he will be lucky to even get a tax bill passed. the vast majority of his EOs have absolutely no teeth or change.

as for impeachment, we are only four months in and Trump literally incriminates himself on a near daily basis. i have faith that it will happen. his attorneys have apparently already started to prepare for it while he is out of the country.

 

[woolfe9998]

Approval Rating means absolutely nothing.
Trump will spend the next 3 and a half years doing whatever he wants regardless of what 300 million people say.
And congress will never impeach him either.

When approval ratings drop too low, the POTUS' own party starts to distance themselves from him, as a matter of political survival.

So far as impeachment, it's tough to predict. It will take a lot more than we have now before enough repubs will sign on. Yet Trump continues to self-destruct with his astounding stupidity and inability to keep his mouth shut. We'll see.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Honestly I'm surprised it's even as high as 39% approval. That's a huge chunk of the redneck population.

I had to fix that for you.

 

[Blackjack200]

When approval ratings drop too low, the POTUS' own party starts to distance themselves from him, as a matter of political survival.

So far as impeachment, it's tough to predict. It will take a lot more than we have now before enough repubs will sign on. Yet Trump continues to self-destruct with his astounding stupidity and inability to keep his mouth shut. We'll see.

I would love to see his approval ratings collapse into the low 30s or even the 20s, but I sort of agree with people that think they have a floor in the mid to high 30s. The people that still approve at this point like the mindless bombast, the pointless feuding, the gaslighting and the hate. They like it when he does shit like fire James Comey for investigating him. They like it when he invites Erdogen to the WH and his thugs beat up protestors. None of that is going to change, so I don't see approval ratings really cratering unless he does something truely disastrous.

 

[fskimospy]

I would love to see his approval ratings collapse into the low 30s or even the 20s, but I sort of agree with people that think they have a floor in the mid to high 30s. The people that still approve at this point like the mindless bombast, the pointless feuding, the gaslighting and the hate. They like it when he does shit like fire James Comey for investigating him. They like it when he invites Erdogen to the WH and his thugs beat up protestors. None of that is going to change, so I don't see approval ratings really cratering unless he does something truely disastrous.

Polls usually show somewhere around or below 25% of people strongly approving of Trump so I feel like his floor might be lower than you think.

 

[woolfe9998]

Polls usually show somewhere around or below 25% of people strongly approving of Trump so I feel like his floor might be lower than you think.

Right, we were told after the election that a significant chunk of Trump voters "held their nose" when voting for Trump, and were mainly voting against Clinton. I think his approval floor is going to be in the vicinity of low 30's but you never know. The sad part for Trump is I have a feeling we're going to find out.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

It's been ~2 weeks since this has been updated.
Let's go to the board! Show me "flailing and going down faster than a hooker in mardi gras"

 

[vi edit]

Pretty much what I expect...

 

[Pens1566]

I'll be interested to see how big a hit he takes from Comey testifying next week. Rumor is there's a bombshell coming.