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President Trump’s Approval Rating Has Been Steady. Richard Nixon’s Once Was Too.
Thanks for posting, Silver is a good read.
Seems the article supports my pessimism, despite the title.
"Nonetheless, be careful if you think Trump’s demise is right around the corner. Even if there were a big shift in Trump’s approval ratings eventually, it could take a long time for it to come, perhaps only after he was successfully re-elected "
President Trump’s Approval Rating Has Been Steady. Richard Nixon’s Once Was Too.
Thanks for posting, Silver is a good read.
Seems the article supports my pessimism, despite the title.
"Nonetheless, be careful if you think Trump’s demise is right around the corner. Even if there were a big shift in Trump’s approval ratings eventually, it could take a long time for it to come, perhaps only after he was successfully re-elected "
This is the part I think is worth noting because Nixon’s numbers didn’t tank until it looked like he was guilty of something. Despite the contestant coverage, not everyone is paying attention to the Mueller report. Once it’s complete and his findings come out, I would expect a similar plunge of his numbers. May not be as bad because of Fox News’ influence as smellyman pointed out. But all it takes is for his numbers within the Republican Party to dwindle a bit below 85%. With solid evidence that he appears guilty, I think that can happen.
Nixon’s approval ratings remained steady throughout the rest of his first term, presaging his landslide re-election over George McGovern in 1972. But they began to crash at the beginning of his second term as Watergate went from a slow-burning background scandal to an acute political crisis.
President Trump’s Approval Rating Has Been Steady. Richard Nixon’s Once Was Too.
They didn't have Fox, Breitbart, the Russians and other fake news keeping Idiot America idiotic.
And that's a huge difference here. Nixon's supporters, even if they were dragged kicking and screaming, had to face reality. Newspapers, TV news, radio news...they all covered it with some accuracy. What happened was not really disputed. There is nothing that will turn right-wing news. In turn, there is nothing that will turn the supporters. It could be a video of Trump telling Putin "In exchange for you forgiving my debts, I will serve at your behest." Wouldn't matter. Nixon supporters never cared about Nixon more than they did their own country. "Pissing off libs" wasn't even a thing, much less more important than the actual good of the country. Trump's approval ratings are staying.
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President Trump’s Approval Rating Has Been Steady. Richard Nixon’s Once Was Too.
They didn't have Fox, Breitbart, the Russians and other fake news keeping Idiot America idiotic.
And that's a huge difference here. Nixon's supporters, even if they were dragged kicking and screaming, had to face reality. Newspapers, TV news, radio news...they all covered it with some accuracy. What happened was not really disputed. There is nothing that will turn right-wing news. In turn, there is nothing that will turn the supporters. It could be a video of Trump telling Putin "In exchange for you forgiving my debts, I will serve at your behest." Wouldn't matter. Nixon supporters never cared about Nixon more than they did their own country. "Pissing off libs" wasn't even a thing, much less more important than the actual good of the country. Trump's approval ratings are staying.
Perspective? About 130million people voted in 2016? Hannity or Maddow wins the ratings every night with 2-3 million viewers.
The average person is not glued to cable news following all of the twists and turns of this investigation. They will start paying more attention once the investigation ends and the hard facts come to light. 10% of Trump's 35-40% base are the only one's you need to reach. Those are the more rational suburban voters who can swing either way.
President Trump’s Approval Rating Has Been Steady. Richard Nixon’s Once Was Too.
They didn't have Fox, Breitbart, the Russians and other fake news keeping Idiot America idiotic.
And that's a huge difference here. Nixon's supporters, even if they were dragged kicking and screaming, had to face reality. Newspapers, TV news, radio news...they all covered it with some accuracy. What happened was not really disputed. There is nothing that will turn right-wing news. In turn, there is nothing that will turn the supporters. It could be a video of Trump telling Putin "In exchange for you forgiving my debts, I will serve at your behest." Wouldn't matter. Nixon supporters never cared about Nixon more than they did their own country. "Pissing off libs" wasn't even a thing, much less more important than the actual good of the country. Trump's approval ratings are staying.
The republican party was a more of a mix of people than it is now. Also, trump’s approval ratings are below average in states that carry a lot of electoral votes, and higher than average in slam dunk red states and less populated states.
Uh oh tweet from Avenatti: After significant investigation, we have discovered that Mr. Trump’s atty Mr. Cohen received approximately $500,000 in the mos. after the election from a company controlled by a Russian Oligarc with close ties to Mr. Putin. These monies may have reimbursed the $130k payment.
Three days after President Trump was sworn into
office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney
Michael Cohen for help on a wide portfolio of issues pending before the
federal government — including the company’s proposed merger with Time
Warner, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
The
internal documents reveal for the first time that Cohen’s $600,000 deal
with AT&T specified that he would provide advice on the $85 billion
merger, which required the approval of federal antitrust regulators.
Trump
had voiced opposition to the merger during the campaign and his
administration ultimately sided against AT&T. The Department of
Justice filed suit in November to block the deal, a case that is still
pending.
Cohen’s deals with AT&T and other
corporate clients were first revealed this week by an attorney for
adult-film star Stormy Daniels, but the new documents obtained by The
Post offered greater detail about his arrangement with telecom company
and the type of work he had been hired to perform.
It
is unclear what insight Cohen — a longtime real estate attorney and
former taxi cab operator — could have provided AT&T on complex
telecom matters.
At the same time he was collecting $50,000 a month from AT&T, Cohen was being paid large sums to advise other companies on a broad variety of issues, including the Affordable Care Act, accounting practices and real estate.
In
the wake of Trump’s election, corporate clients paid Cohen at least
$2.95 million through a company called Essential Consultants, according
to figures confirmed by the companies.
Essential
Consultants was the same company Cohen used in October 2016 to route
money to Daniels in exchange for her agreement not to disclose an
alleged affair with Trump.
The corporate
payments he received demonstrate how Cohen was able to turn his ties
with the new president into money-making opportunities, despite Trump’s
campaign pledges to “drain the swamp.”
AT&T
and the pharmaceutical company Novartis, another Cohen client, said
this week that they provided information about their dealings with
Trump’s lawyer to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last year. Cohen
is also under investigation by prosecutors in New York for possible
bank fraud and campaign finance violations.
The
$600,000 that flowed to Cohen from AT&T was the equivalent of 3.5
percent of the $16.8 million the company spent on lobbying in 2017,
according to disclosure forms.
A “scope
of work” describing Cohen’s contract in an internal AT&T document
shows that he was hired to “focus on specific long-term planning
initiatives as well as the immediate issue of corporate tax reform and
the acquisition of Time Warner.”
He was also
directed to “creatively address political and communications issues”
facing the company and advise the company on matters before the Federal
Communications Commission.
AT&T declined to
comment on the documents, which were provided to The Post anonymously,
but did not challenge their authenticity.
Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan, declined to comment. Cohen did not respond to requests for comment.
The
internal AT&T documents show that Cohen was supposed to spend half
of his time on “legislative policy development” and the other half on
“regulatory policy development.” Payments to Cohen were approved by two
executives in AT&T’s public affairs office in Washington.
The
documents specified that Cohen, who was not a registered lobbyist, was
to spend none of his time engaged in lobbying. They described his work
as advising the company, not contacting federal officials.
Under
federal rules, individuals must register as lobbyists if they spend 20
percent of their time working for a client on legislative and executive
branch issues and if they have had contact with at least two government
officials related to that client, according to Larry Noble, a former
general counsel of the Federal Election Commission and an expert on
lobbying law.
Cohen’s work for AT&T did not
appear to meet that definition, Noble said. However, he noted that
hiring the president’s lawyer could trigger ethical questions.
“It
is an ethical concern if you have a lawyer who appears to be selling
access to a current client, who is president,” Noble said.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer for Trump, said Wednesday that the president was unaware of Cohen’s consulting agreements.
AT&T
has declined to comment on the specific amount it paid to Essential
Consultants. Under the one-year contract, the company has said, Cohen
was hired to provide “insights into understanding the new
administration.”
In an internal email to
employees obtained by The Post, AT&T said Cohen was among “several
consultants” the company hired in early 2017 “to help us understand how
the President and his administration might approach a wide range of
policy issues important to the company, including regulatory reform at
the FCC, corporate tax reform and antitrust enforcement.”
At
the time the contract was signed, AT&T was trying to build ties to
the new administration. Months earlier, Trump had come out strongly
against the proposed merger with Time Warner, which owns CNN — a network
he often berates as “fake news.”
“As an
example of the power structure I’m fighting, AT&T is buying Time
Warner and thus CNN, a deal we will not approve in my administration
because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few,”
Trump said during a speech in Gettysburg in October 2016.
On
Jan. 12, 2017, Cohen and AT&T’s chief executive, Randall
Stephenson, were both seen visiting Trump Tower in New York, days before
the contract with Essential Consultants was signed.
But
although the two men arrived within minutes of each other, they did not
meet that day and have never met, AT&T said this week.
At
the time, AT&T said that Stephenson had “a very good meeting” with
Trump but that the Time Warner merger “was not a topic of discussion.”
“The
conversation focused on how AT&T can work with the Trump
administration to increase investment in the U.S., stimulate job
creation in America, and make American companies more competitive
globally,” the company said.
In
the wake of the revelation of Cohen’s link to AT&T, ranking
Democrats on antitrust subcommittees in both the House and Senate sent a
joint letter to the Justice Department’s top competition enforcer,
Makan Delrahim, asking whether he knew of the company’s payments to
Cohen during his agency’s independent review of the Time Warner merger.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
According
to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to
describe ongoing litigation, Delrahim was not aware of AT&T’s
payments to Cohen.
Meanwhile, Novartis chief
executive Vasant Narasimhan sent an email to employees Thursday calling
the company’s $1.2 million contract with Cohen a “mistake” and
acknowledging that the revelation “was not a good day for Novartis.”
“We
made a mistake in entering into this engagement and, as a consequence,
are being criticized by a world that expects more from us,” Narasimhan
wrote.
Narasimhan joined the company in 2005,
but did not take the helm of the global drug giant until this February.
“I was not involved with any aspect of this situation,” Narasimhan wrote
to employees, adding that it had been a difficult day for himself and
his family.
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So, we have the following dots connected between Team Trump Treason and Russians. Team Trump Treason and the mob. Team Trump Treason and members of the Russian mob. Team Trump Treason, russians and the NRA. Team Trump Treason, Russians and the RNC. Is it any wonder, I reject you first, that the RICO statues will apply?
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https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2018/05/05/apnewsbreak-mueller-team-questions-trump-friend-tom-barrack
Follow the money from Russia with love and a PTape all the way to impeachment.
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The Liar-in-Chief has a friend named Barrack?
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His popularity is actually rising, and he is getting undeserved credit for Korea.
If he is able to pull out a peace deal there, I can see him getting reelected if the economy holds.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/president-trumps-approval-rating-has-been-steady-richard-nixons-once-was-too/
President Trump’s Approval Rating Has Been Steady. Richard Nixon’s Once Was Too.
Thanks for posting, Silver is a good read.
Seems the article supports my pessimism, despite the title.
"Nonetheless, be careful if you think Trump’s demise is right around the corner. Even if there were a big shift in Trump’s approval ratings eventually, it could take a long time for it to come, perhaps only after he was successfully re-elected "
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Perspective? About 130million people voted in 2016? Hannity or Maddow wins the ratings every night with 2-3 million viewers.
The average person is not glued to cable news following all of the twists and turns of this investigation. They will start paying more attention once the investigation ends and the hard facts come to light. 10% of Trump's 35-40% base are the only one's you need to reach. Those are the more rational suburban voters who can swing either way.
After significant investigation, we have discovered that Mr. Trump’s atty Mr. Cohen received approximately $500,000 in the mos. after the election from a company controlled by a Russian Oligarc with close ties to Mr. Putin. These monies may have reimbursed the $130k payment.
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Cohen’s $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cohens-600000-deal-with-atandt-specified-he-would-advise-on-time-warner-merger-internal-company-records-show/2018/05/10/cd541ae0-5468-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?utm_term=.e3bc3fb53250&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1
Three days after President Trump was sworn into office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney Michael Cohen for help on a wide portfolio of issues pending before the federal government — including the company’s proposed merger with Time Warner, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
The internal documents reveal for the first time that Cohen’s $600,000 deal with AT&T specified that he would provide advice on the $85 billion merger, which required the approval of federal antitrust regulators.
Trump had voiced opposition to the merger during the campaign and his administration ultimately sided against AT&T. The Department of Justice filed suit in November to block the deal, a case that is still pending.
Cohen’s deals with AT&T and other corporate clients were first revealed this week by an attorney for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, but the new documents obtained by The Post offered greater detail about his arrangement with telecom company and the type of work he had been hired to perform.
It is unclear what insight Cohen — a longtime real estate attorney and former taxi cab operator — could have provided AT&T on complex telecom matters.
At the same time he was collecting $50,000 a month from AT&T, Cohen was being paid large sums to advise other companies on a broad variety of issues, including the Affordable Care Act, accounting practices and real estate.
In the wake of Trump’s election, corporate clients paid Cohen at least $2.95 million through a company called Essential Consultants, according to figures confirmed by the companies.
Essential Consultants was the same company Cohen used in October 2016 to route money to Daniels in exchange for her agreement not to disclose an alleged affair with Trump.
The corporate payments he received demonstrate how Cohen was able to turn his ties with the new president into money-making opportunities, despite Trump’s campaign pledges to “drain the swamp.”
AT&T and the pharmaceutical company Novartis, another Cohen client, said this week that they provided information about their dealings with Trump’s lawyer to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last year. Cohen is also under investigation by prosecutors in New York for possible bank fraud and campaign finance violations.
The $600,000 that flowed to Cohen from AT&T was the equivalent of 3.5 percent of the $16.8 million the company spent on lobbying in 2017, according to disclosure forms.
A “scope of work” describing Cohen’s contract in an internal AT&T document shows that he was hired to “focus on specific long-term planning initiatives as well as the immediate issue of corporate tax reform and the acquisition of Time Warner.”
He was also directed to “creatively address political and communications issues” facing the company and advise the company on matters before the Federal Communications Commission.
AT&T declined to comment on the documents, which were provided to The Post anonymously, but did not challenge their authenticity.
Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan, declined to comment. Cohen did not respond to requests for comment.
The internal AT&T documents show that Cohen was supposed to spend half of his time on “legislative policy development” and the other half on “regulatory policy development.” Payments to Cohen were approved by two executives in AT&T’s public affairs office in Washington.
The documents specified that Cohen, who was not a registered lobbyist, was to spend none of his time engaged in lobbying. They described his work as advising the company, not contacting federal officials.
Under federal rules, individuals must register as lobbyists if they spend 20 percent of their time working for a client on legislative and executive branch issues and if they have had contact with at least two government officials related to that client, according to Larry Noble, a former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission and an expert on lobbying law.
Cohen’s work for AT&T did not appear to meet that definition, Noble said. However, he noted that hiring the president’s lawyer could trigger ethical questions.
“It is an ethical concern if you have a lawyer who appears to be selling access to a current client, who is president,” Noble said.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer for Trump, said Wednesday that the president was unaware of Cohen’s consulting agreements.
AT&T has declined to comment on the specific amount it paid to Essential Consultants. Under the one-year contract, the company has said, Cohen was hired to provide “insights into understanding the new administration.”
In an internal email to employees obtained by The Post, AT&T said Cohen was among “several consultants” the company hired in early 2017 “to help us understand how the President and his administration might approach a wide range of policy issues important to the company, including regulatory reform at the FCC, corporate tax reform and antitrust enforcement.”
At the time the contract was signed, AT&T was trying to build ties to the new administration. Months earlier, Trump had come out strongly against the proposed merger with Time Warner, which owns CNN — a network he often berates as “fake news.”
“As an example of the power structure I’m fighting, AT&T is buying Time Warner and thus CNN, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few,” Trump said during a speech in Gettysburg in October 2016.
On Jan. 12, 2017, Cohen and AT&T’s chief executive, Randall Stephenson, were both seen visiting Trump Tower in New York, days before the contract with Essential Consultants was signed.
But although the two men arrived within minutes of each other, they did not meet that day and have never met, AT&T said this week.
At the time, AT&T said that Stephenson had “a very good meeting” with Trump but that the Time Warner merger “was not a topic of discussion.”
“The conversation focused on how AT&T can work with the Trump administration to increase investment in the U.S., stimulate job creation in America, and make American companies more competitive globally,” the company said.
In the wake of the revelation of Cohen’s link to AT&T, ranking Democrats on antitrust subcommittees in both the House and Senate sent a joint letter to the Justice Department’s top competition enforcer, Makan Delrahim, asking whether he knew of the company’s payments to Cohen during his agency’s independent review of the Time Warner merger.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
According to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to describe ongoing litigation, Delrahim was not aware of AT&T’s payments to Cohen.
Meanwhile, Novartis chief executive Vasant Narasimhan sent an email to employees Thursday calling the company’s $1.2 million contract with Cohen a “mistake” and acknowledging that the revelation “was not a good day for Novartis.”
“We made a mistake in entering into this engagement and, as a consequence, are being criticized by a world that expects more from us,” Narasimhan wrote.
Narasimhan joined the company in 2005, but did not take the helm of the global drug giant until this February. “I was not involved with any aspect of this situation,” Narasimhan wrote to employees, adding that it had been a difficult day for himself and his family.
The 2 biggest scandals of Trump's presidency are suddenly converging - Business Insider https://apple.news/Ae-oWn_qQSuyyDJS5Q3smbQ
See? Connecting dots is soooo much fun!
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Connecting dots is so very much fun! 3D? How’s connecting the dots with the Blue Agave? Hey? Huh, huh, huh! Comrade?
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Watetgate: 2 years and a month
Benghazi: 2 years
Good things come to those who wait, comrade.
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....well, except if you were waiting for something to come of the Benghazi nonsense.
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0 years but you know, lock her up!
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