Americans don't believe that Trump cares about the average American. The % who do has hover about th
It is amazing to me that it this high!
Trump is struggling despite a strong economy. Here's why https://cnn.it/2VDvYXR Americans don't believe that Trump cares about the average American. The % who do has hovered around 40%, which is right around where Trump's approval rating has been.
Trump is struggling despite a strong economy. Here's why.
Updated 1:10 PM ET, Fri May 3, 2019
(CNN)We learned Friday that the unemployment rate is now at its lowest rate since 1969 at 3.6%. The economy added another 263,000 jobs. This capped a week in which President Donald Trump received his highest economic approval rating in any CNN poll at 56%.
In other words, the economy is going well, and people think it's going well.
Yet for all that strength, Trump's overall approval rating seems mostly stuck. Recently, he hasn't been able to get his overall approval rating above 43% with voters. Trump's net approval rating (approval - disapproval) hasn't been positive in over two years.
So why is the President struggling, despite a strong economy?
1.The economy may not matter like it used to
One of the more interesting trends of the Trump presidency is how little changes in his economic approval rating have correlated with changes in his overall approval rating. That's also seen in consumer sentiment. When consumer sentiment has been higher, it has not resulted in higher approval ratings for the President.
The funny thing is the same thing happened under President Barack Obama. According to political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck, changes in consumer sentiment also failed to predict changes in Obama's approval rating. In fact, if anything, Obama's approval rating was lower when consumer sentiment was higher.
This is a complete reversal of the trend dating back to the John Kennedy administration. From Kennedy to George W. Bush, you could count on consumer sentiment changes to drive changes in overall approval ratings. Not surprisingly, therefore, the perceptions of a good economy lifted Ronald Reagan to re-election in 1984 and sunk George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Perhaps the trend will reverse itself over the next year and a half, but it may be the case that the economy just doesn't matter that much anymore when it comes to approval ratings.
2. Voters don't feel Trump is on their side
It's one thing to think the economy is working. It's another thing to believe the economy and the head of the government is working on behalf of you. Americans don't believe that Trump cares about the average American. The percentage who do has hovered around 40%, which is right around where Trump's approval rating has been. That's about the same percentage of voters who believe the administration has done enough to help the middle class.
Indeed, changes in the percentage of Americans who think Trump cares about the average American have been correlated with changes in the his overall approval rating. ........................
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After having sent out at least 200 applications? 
I call complete bullshit on the unemployment rate. Complete and utter bullshit!
The market is wonderful! All the people graduating next year will have jobs! It's all tRump's magnificent work!
