Whoa, Nelly: Gallup Trump Approval 38% Disapproval 57%

[DemocratSinceBirth]

https://news.gallup.com/poll/203207/trump-job-approval-weekly.aspx

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Wake us up when Approval dips below 38%

yawn.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I don't think he's been much below that in any reputable poll.

Maybe 34% or 36% in a quinnipiac poll.

[mucifer]

28. nbc had him at 34 a few days ago

[DemocratSinceBirth]

30. 43%

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-62-percent-say-trump-isn-t-telling-truth-russia-n948226

[mucifer]

32. and this:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. Sad that 9% of Americans support him when he know he's lying about something important.

[appleannie1943]

2. I have to wonder about the mental health of the 38%

[ooky]

10. I've accepted that anyone who is still saying they approve of him is as lame as he is.

That is all.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. I agree. I hear people (mostly Republicans) saying that Democrats need to reach out to

Trump supporters. I think it would be a fruitless gesture. If they are still supporting Trump, they are not likely to listen to anything we might say to them.

[workinclasszero]

24. Half of them are Russian troll army

The other half are Nazis, KKKers, Incels, gamergate misogynists, Trump cult evangelicals and freepers.

[Buckeyeblue]

3. So in any given roomful of 100 people....

38 of them are batshit crazy. How comforting!

[redstatebluegirl]

5. If it were here in Oklahoma it would be more like 70 of them.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. I don't think I could take it.

I love living in a blue area

[redstatebluegirl]

8. Every day is a new challenge that is for sure.

There are some really nice people here but it is crazy nuts politically. It is where our jobs are so here we are. I would do anything to move back close to Chicago.

[Adrahil]

41. I used to live in Maryland... now in INdiana.... Pence's district.

My county is dominated by a little blue city, but we are gerrymandered into a big red district.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. It's about the same here in Arkansas. Good people, but bad political ideology.

Mostly low information voters.

[redstatebluegirl]

15. We live in a college town and work for a university so we can avoid a lot of it.

But don't go off the paved roads....

[workinclasszero]

25. Missouri...80

[Johnny2X2X]

7. FOX

FOX caters to those people. Unless you watch FOX regularly, you aren't in that 38%. That network is a 24/7 excuse machine for him, but even they're starting to crack.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. If we go into a secular bear market his approval ratings will fall to the high 20s/low 30s.

[Johnny2X2X]

19. I agree

The new poll data of CEOs where 2/3s think the economy is imminently heading into a recession is a huge shift.

I know people think voters are dumb, and a portion are, but for the economy, historically they'e correctly assigned blame and given credit. When the economy sputters in 2019, in retrospect, voters will realize 2017 was all Obama.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. As you speak-23,744.28 −356.23 (1.48%)

There is already some slippage in his approval ratings re handling the economy.

[Johnny2X2X]

29. He's tweeting blame to the Dem House

The one that hasn't even been seated yet. LOL. No one is going to buy it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

31. The dead enders will . The Dem in 2020 is not going to win unanimously.

[John Fante]

39. Agreed. Trump will get 63 million votes irrespective of

what the Democratic candidate does. Deplorables and partisan hacks will not be swayed.

Good news: if enthusiasm rivals 2018, the Democratic should be able to surpass Obama's record total from 2008. Democrats just got 61 million votes in a mid-term, so it's easily achievable.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

42. If we are in a recession I could see the Dem getting 55% of the two party vote.

Note that's a little different than 55% of the total vote.

[Buckeyeblue]

35. I watch very little politics on tv anymore.

[D_Master81]

27. In my county

Trump won by 42% in 2016 and carried almost 70% of the vote. Its hard for me to imagine ONLY 38 out of 100 supporting him. Everywhere I go I see Trump flags, bumper stickers, hats, facebook posts, etc. Its brutal.

[Buckeyeblue]

37. I live in the more red side of MI

People who are poorer than church mice vote straight R ticket. I don't understand it. The last time I tried talking to strangers about it, I got this Obama birther rant. I stopped the old guy mid sentence and said, I can't talk to you because you are stupid. I shouldn't have said that. But I couldn't help myself. Now I don't talk about politics outside of the house.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. Hillary won 72% in my county.

If you wore MAGA gear in L A you would be ridiculed and in some parts attacked, which of course I don't countenance.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Stuck on stupid

38% are darned determined to go down with the ship. Fools.

[elocs]

14. Does anybody believe that 38%, those millions & millions of Trump supporters

will be going anywhere even when he's gone? Does anybody think that even if the Democrats take the White House and the Senate as well that these Trumpsters are just going to give up and go away?
No, they're not going to just fold their tents and go gently into that good night and it would be a mistake to treat them as a joke because it won't take that many to cause real problems, to even cause violence.

Unless the Left remains vigilant and treats every election seriously, they will be back in power again.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. The data indicates that a not unsubstantial amount of Americans have authoritarian tendencies.

They will always be with us.

[elocs]

21. In the numbers they are now, with their own admired leader?

I don't think this is the same and we would make a mistake to treat them lightly.

[WeekiWater]

17. I don't see him going much lower unless he is impeached.

It's one area many of us on the left don't see clearly. While doing so in an extremely sloppy manner, he has been extremely successful at some things that are very important to some and other Republicans not only failed in these areas, they often did the opposite.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. I tend to agree. 38% is pretty awful.

Barring an economic slowdown or impeachment I don't expect it go much lower.

[WeekiWater]

22. On point mentioning and economic slowdown.

[NewJeffCT]

33. The media has told us that the economy is fantastic right now

echoing whatever Trump says or tweets about it. This is RARELY challenged. Even by Democrats on the air, who frustratingly often answer with something like, "Yes, but..."

If the economy starts slowing down over the next 6-9 months and enters a recession next year (as both economists and CEOs expect), I think he'll lose a decent amount off that 38%. If he drops to closer to 30%, you can expect to see some Republicans in Congress regenerate their spines.

[WeekiWater]

36. He is regularly challenged.

Democrats challenge his actions on a regular basis. It's regularly posted on this board.

I think the economy will have to take a pretty solid dive to get him to 30%. He has gutted the EPA and other agencies. He has limited revenue streams into the federal government. He has generated even more distrust in government. He is blowing it up from the inside. To many of us aren't aware of how many conservative feel this is the only way to get it done. They don't like the person but like the actions. It must be torched before it can be built again. Bannon and his ilk are big on that.

[NewJeffCT]

40. If he's challenged

I've rarely seen it - that's why Pelosi last week was such a big story.

And, challenging somebody on Twitter, which I see all the time, is different than when you're in a panel discussion on TV and agreeing with the Trump talking head that the economy is good.

And, gutting the EPA and other agencies isn't going to immediately hurt the economy, but will have drastic long-term effects. The economy is still growing, job growth has been decent and unemployment is very low thanks to unprecedented borrowing and spending at the federal level. (And, also because unemployment was trending down for years under Obama) Once the sugar high of the borrowing/tax cuts wears off, even a quarter or two of negative growth will really hurt the Trump approvals.

[WeekiWater]

43. I was talking about revenue streams and the EPA in the context of the op.

Favorability ratings. Not in connection to them hurting the economy themselves.

These items are huge for many conservatives.

A quarter or two of negative growth would be devastating to him. It wouldn't happen in the next two quarters at a minimum. That leaves it in the middle of an election, if it did happen. No echo chambers during an election.

[mn9driver]

20. Trump has exposed the moral bankruptcy of a large chunk of Americans.

It explains a lot about what kind of country we really are.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. I hate to be profane but a lot of his followers would eat poop if liberals had to smell it.

[kennetha]

44. Too High! Should be in the 20's somewhere

Both Bushes, Carter, Truman and Nixon all had lows in the 20's. Only Nixon was a crook. Trump is a worse crook than Nixon by a long shot. And doesn't have any of the virtues of the others ... at least one of whom (Truman) history has judged extremely kindly. So what the heck is keeping Trump as high as he is?