Beyond the topline of Trump's approval rating, CNN also asked how strongly Americans approved or disapproved of Trump's job performance. The percentage who moderately approve (11%) is similar to the percentage who moderately disapprove (10%).
The real nugget is that the 45% who strongly disapprove is significantly higher than the 28% who strongly approve. That 17-point gap is wider than the 7-point gap we found in April of this year.
What's so interesting about that is some form of enthusiasm gap on approval exists across age, gender, race and even education levels.
Now, it's not unusual for there to be an enthusiasm gap in which more people strongly disapprove than strongly approve of a president. We saw it with George W. Bush and Barack Obama at roughly this point in their presidencies.
The difference is that Trump's is much larger. Obama's strongly disapprove rating in CNN polling was never more than 10 points higher than his strongly approve rating through his first three years in office. The same held true with Bush.
Coming into 2020, it's easy to imagine that Trump may lack the enthusiastic supporters he will likely need to overcome what looks to be an unpopular standing overall.
So let me tell you how the other half looks at polls.
Remember that FOX poll that stated the 37% or whatever said he was "tearing the country apart"?
I posted that and none of my rep friends could find it and thought I was lying.
I told them how to find it and still called me a fibber.
Posted direct link to that very question and it's findings and question the "amount of people whom actually were polled on that question".
Polls don't matter to them. It is just mind blowing.
all polls had Hillary winning by a landslide. this is why trumpsters don't believe polls anymore. regardless of the fact that the 2016 polls were only off in a few keys areas, which led to him winning. they don't understand that or choose to ignore it.
No they didn't. The average of all polls was HRC +2.1, which was quite close to the result and within the MOE. The polls were remarkably accurate. The difference is that these are national polls, so they don't achieve statistical significance at the state level.
sorry, not a landslide, wrong wording, but a 92% chance of winning. from what I recall of watching that night.
Yes, the "inside straight" argument. And it was true. He won Michigan and PA by less than a percent each. Those flip, and the election flips. The problem is not the polls and the stats, the problem is the conclusions drawn by media analysts, disregarding the margins of error.
I think it is incredible that people still do not understand this 3 years later.
I mentioned that I had not seen 1 single poll with Clinton ahead by much. 55/45 yes but no landslide?
Most polls leading up to Election Day correctly had her up by a few percentage points.
correct....they had her by 3% nationally and she ended up at 2.1%
The only outliers were MI, PA and WI where tRump won by a combined 77,000 votes. That's what got him elected.
That and Putin on the ritz’s social media campaign that Team Trump Treason’s campaign knew about and “colluded” with.
It was online ADVERTISING and repetitive SLOGANS they fell for. Morons.
I found his aggressive rhetoric at the 9/11 memorial totally inappropriate. What a classless POS.
I found the fact that he's afraid to go to NYC totally inappropriate. Spineless.
Well, he did say he went down to the site to help in any small way he could whilst delivering remarks at the Pentagon memorial so he was there in spirit.
I found his aggressive rhetoric at the 9/11 memorial totally inappropriate. What a classless POS.
So did I. Of course, it did not change my opinion of him...just Trump being Trump.
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I found his aggressive rhetoric at the 9/11 memorial totally inappropriate. What a classless POS.
I found the fact that he's afraid to go to NYC totally inappropriate. Spineless.
Well, he did say he went down to the site to help in any small way he could whilst delivering remarks at the Pentagon memorial so he was there in spirit.
Everyone was and stiil IS. 912 was an eyeopener. All of 2001 was. That fastball that W threw at Yankee Stadium? strong Douchey J McDoucheface has been to NYC once since being sworn in in front of "record crowds". weak
At least Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino is outta jail. Trumpito couldn't have pardoned THAT guy? Ponderous.
Trump Gives A Rambling Mess Of A Speech At The GOP’s Baltimore Retreat — And He’s A Hit
The takeover of the Republican Party is complete.
BALTIMORE ― In disjointed, jumbled remarks delivered in a city that he proclaimed in July was “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” President Donald Trump addressed House Republicans at their annual retreat Thursday night and delivered a preview of his central reelection message: “You have no choice.”
Riffing about Texas during the 2016 election and how he never doubted he would carry it, he said that if he were from the Lone Star State, he’d wear a cowboy hat all the time.
“I’d never take it off,” Trump joked. “I don’t have to worry about hairspray. I don’t have to worry about my hair blowing, beautifully blowing in the wind.”
Good luck getting these brainwashed dipshits on board.
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The whole link is perfect and right on. And that last line, "If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set." Yep!
written by Nate White:
“Stolen from a friend of a friend. The best description of Trump I have ever read, from a Brit.
Someone
on Quora asked, “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote this
magnificent response.
A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For
instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no
compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity,
no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities,
funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously
blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus,
we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once
said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I
don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not
ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British
sensibility – for us, to lack humor is almost inhuman.
But with
Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is –
his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual
act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And
scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually
thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty
prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And
in Britain, we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our
heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a sniveling sidekick instead.
There
are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic
decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a
gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is
below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or
voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that
a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he
does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my
kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to
British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us and most are.
* You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This
last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and
many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After
all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet or hear him speak a
sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being
artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of
shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad
infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the
world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so
nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumps of hair and scream in anguish:
‘My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”
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What we know about malignant narcissists is that they psychologically decompensate once they achieve the ultimate position of power. They worsen in every possible way: become more grandiose and paranoid, more aggressive and demanding, and progressively less in touch with reality (and Trump has never been fully in touch with it).
We can expect his narcissistic rage to intensify in proportion to his growing grandiosity and paranoia.
His handlers will have to resort to increasingly more “creative” ways to placate and subdue him — and it will work, for a while, until it doesn’t.
There’ll be blood, symbolic, if not literal, as he’ll fire and destroy his previously “trusted” associates, maybe even in rapid succession and without any rhyme or reason.
His demands for adulation will also become more intense and bizarre, and we’ll be witnessing idiotic and quite possibly dangerous displays of his “superiority” and might, likely military as well. This is where the possibility of him starting a war or two just to satisfy his ego becomes quite real.
It’s not only that he will never get better, but it is certain that he will get worse.
There has never been a case of a malignant narcissist in power whose pathology improved, or even remained stable: they always deteriorate, and often rapidly, as they become drunk on (what they see as) now unlimited power and adulation.
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Douchey J McDoucheface has been to NYC once since being sworn in in front of "record crowds". weak
At least Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino is outta jail. Trumpito couldn't have pardoned THAT guy? Ponderous.
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House panel approves impeachment inquiry rules
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/12/politics/impeachment-investigation-vote-house-judiciary-committee/index.html
RULES? get on with it already...
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Trump Gives A Rambling Mess Of A Speech At The GOP’s Baltimore Retreat — And He’s A Hit
The takeover of the Republican Party is complete.BALTIMORE ― In disjointed, jumbled remarks delivered in a city that he proclaimed in July was “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” President Donald Trump addressed House Republicans at their annual retreat Thursday night and delivered a preview of his central reelection message: “You have no choice.”
Riffing about Texas during the 2016 election and how he never doubted he would carry it, he said that if he were from the Lone Star State, he’d wear a cowboy hat all the time.
“I’d never take it off,” Trump joked. “I don’t have to worry about hairspray. I don’t have to worry about my hair blowing, beautifully blowing in the wind.”
Good luck getting these brainwashed dipshits on board.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-baltimore-gop-retreat_n_5d7aca3be4b00d6905959f7c
https://www.c-span.org/video/?464208-1/president-trump-delivers-remarks-house-gop-retreat
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“Stolen from a friend of a friend. The best description of Trump I have ever read, from a Brit.
Someone on Quora asked, “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote this magnificent response.
A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humor is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain, we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a sniveling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us and most are.
* You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumps of hair and scream in anguish:
‘My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/14/aoc-attack-ad-elizabeth-heng-cuomo-intv-cpt-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/us/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-trump-impeach.html
https://medium.com/@Elamika/and-so-it-begins-8427a49dd846
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