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ffr

(22,676 posts)
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 02:57 PM Feb 2019

Voters Believe Obama Is A Better President Than Trump By Nearly 20 points

Voters Are Yearning For Obama’s Character And Decency



A recently released CNN poll found that voters overwhelmingly think that Obama was a better president than Trump, and the reason why is personal character.
Voters Believe Obama Is A Better President Than Trump By Nearly 20 points

According to the CNN poll, by a margin of 56%-37% voters believe that Obama was a better president than Trump.

People overwhelmingly disapprove of how Trump handles his cabinet officials (30%/55%), his relationship with Republicans in Congress (30%-48%), and 54% of those who disapproved of Trump did so because of his personality and leadership qualities.

Donald Trump’s biggest political weakness is that he is Donald Trump. - PoliticusUSA

Thank you president Barack Obama!
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Voters Believe Obama Is A Better President Than Trump By Nearly 20 points (Original Post) ffr Feb 2019 OP
Using a scale of -50000 to 0 chowder66 Feb 2019 #1
Is that all? Should be 20,000. spanone Feb 2019 #2
exactly bdamomma Feb 2019 #4
That's what I thought as well. ffr Feb 2019 #5
They can't all be Obama zipplewrath Feb 2019 #3
Is that all? PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #6
A 3rd of this country is stupid beyond reason. Afromania Feb 2019 #7
+1 ffr Feb 2019 #9
Beyond all reason. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2019 #10
Hey Trump! smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #8
Hehehe SammyWinstonJack Feb 2019 #11
K&R! Tarheel_Dem Feb 2019 #12
Dr. King's dream is partially true. mwooldri Feb 2019 #13
Not even CLOSE Blue Owl Feb 2019 #14
I don't believe Obama was a better President than Tiny groundloop Feb 2019 #15
That's low malaise Feb 2019 #16
Not to be an echo, but only 20%? marble falls Feb 2019 #17
That's probably about right..... (60% to 40%) groundloop Feb 2019 #18
OF COURSE a third of the country thinks Trump is swell. Media is so FailureToCommunicate Feb 2019 #19
How about 100% better???? ailsagirl Feb 2019 #20
Fake news! Dream Girl Feb 2019 #21
Better by infinity True Dough Feb 2019 #22
Only 20 points? Nt helpisontheway Feb 2019 #23
That was my thought. Why only 20 points? LonePirate Feb 2019 #28
Because Trump has a base of flat-earthers who think Obama is a Kenyan. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #30
A third of the country are mind bent by Fox lovemydogs Feb 2019 #24
... catbyte Feb 2019 #25
And THAT is why we are a shithole nation... Moostache Feb 2019 #26
Well That'll Leave A Mark ProfessorGAC Feb 2019 #27
I miss having a real POTUS Gothmog Feb 2019 #29

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
3. They can't all be Obama
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:04 PM
Feb 2019

I was grousing the other day to a RWNJ that Trump seemed to have amazing trouble understanding the basics of governing. Their honest reply was "well, they can't all be Obama".

Even the RWNJ's know Obama was smarter.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,925 posts)
6. Is that all?
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:23 PM
Feb 2019

It's terrifying how large a percentage seem to think Trump is better in any measure.

Makes me wonder how many Germans still believed in Hitler on, say, VE Day.

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
13. Dr. King's dream is partially true.
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:55 PM
Feb 2019

Some Americans will judge a person by the content of their character. Fortunately it is a majority of Americans. We got some work to do.... There are Americans who still judge by skin colour. Or blindly stuck to party loyalty. Though it could be argued that some overlap.

Yep. A lot of us miss Barack Obama. He resembles what family values truly are and not that phoney Republican version.

groundloop

(11,530 posts)
15. I don't believe Obama was a better President than Tiny
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 04:10 PM
Feb 2019

I fucking KNOW Barack Obama was a better President than Tiny. It's simply amazing that a third of this country is so damned blind to facts.

groundloop

(11,530 posts)
18. That's probably about right..... (60% to 40%)
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 04:27 PM
Feb 2019

It's always been a working assumption that about 1/3 of the country is hardcore repub, this number is pretty close to that. To the point of that 1/3 of the country though, yes, it's hard to believe they're that blind.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,027 posts)
19. OF COURSE a third of the country thinks Trump is swell. Media is so
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 04:27 PM
Feb 2019

compartmentalized, that 1/3 only watch FOX, and listen to r/w hate radio viewpoints on news. The vile and bile in that swamp is (still) particularly putrid and racist towards President Obama, and anyone even vaguely associated with him.

LonePirate

(13,436 posts)
28. That was my thought. Why only 20 points?
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 05:23 PM
Feb 2019

I guess both Dems and Repubs have polar opposite views of the two and those views are static. Independents break for Obama but some of them still do not realize how much of a fuck up 45 is.

lovemydogs

(575 posts)
24. A third of the country are mind bent by Fox
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 05:06 PM
Feb 2019

They watch fox all the time and believe what they put out. Many go to sites like Daily Caller for news as well.
Of course they back Trump
But, more people are thoughtful and worried about the country.
They know Obama was a good and decent President.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
26. And THAT is why we are a shithole nation...
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 05:19 PM
Feb 2019

Only 20% believe that Obama was a better president than Trump?
Trump is literally a 24-7-365 dumpster fire of scandal, idiocy and grift. He has more controversies before the end of AM Executive Time than Obama did in an entire term.

This is NOT a partisan issue either, it is objective fact that Donald J. Trump is nowhere NEAR the league as Obama was as a leader and chief executive...to borrow from Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction..."ain't the same ****ing ball park. It ain't the same league. It ain't even the same ****ing sport!"

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