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One of the more remarkable incongruities in American politics is that the United States elected Donald Trump (who ran specifically against the legacy of President Obama) to succeed Obama (who is nearing a 60 percent approval rating). America thinks Obama is doing a great job and would like the next president to dismantle the work that he did (or so one might think, given Trumps initial Cabinet picks). This isnt quite right, of course: Trump lost the popular vote and less than two-thirds of those eligible to vote did so. But, still! Trump won, thanks in part to his ability to consolidate long-wavering Republican support just in time for the election.
Gallups survey data, though, suggests that Trump is uncommonly unpopular for a president-elect. Thats in large part because Democrats are particularly sour on him. Only 1 in 10 Democrats view Trump positively, a substantially lower percentage than the number of Republicans who viewed Obama or Bill Clinton positively after their elections and only a third of the number of Democrats who viewed George W. Bush positively after the contentious 2000 election.
Perhaps more important over the long term, though, is that independents are also unusually iffy about Trump.
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Wounded Bear
(58,755 posts)at least until he can force/leverage the pollsters to alter their results.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,331 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)MFM008
(19,826 posts)????????????????????
bravenak
(34,648 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)unblock
(52,398 posts)meadowlander
(4,411 posts)There will be another 9/11 and no matter how big of an incompetent boob Trump is, he will go to 90% approval ratings and take a while to fall back down again.
rzemanfl
(29,575 posts)silent majority.
groundloop
(11,528 posts)Hillary won the election by nearly 3 million votes. tRump is being selected due to the vestiges of a system adapted to appease slave states, and which is still allowing repubs to control Congress.
Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)But honestly this probably sounds like a great concept for Trump voters.
Warpy
(111,395 posts)so I sincerely doubt his numbers will be much good unless he fires up the printing press and hands out thousand dollar bills like parking tickets.