Gallup: Trump's net approval rating is now -9, continuing to drop

[highplainsdem]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx


Poll numbers as of yesterday -- 52% disapprove, 43% approve.

Trump had started a little over a week ago with 45%/45%. After a week it was 50/42.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141681651

His approval rating went up 1 point since then, but his disapproval rating went up 2 points.

[bdamomma]

1. I don't he really

cares what we think of him. Only his brainwashed supporters sing him praises.

Why don't they do a world view consensus?

[Idoru]

2. It's worse than that

Gallup is notoriously bad at this sort of (republican-skewed) polling, in reality I'm sure these numbers are even worse.

[cilla4progress]

3. This is helpful

to our side.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Really?

What did the polls do for us in November?

Polls are one thing - ACTION by "our side" - the party - the leaders - the supporters, is another - and we MUST take action!

[DeminPennswoods]

23. Trump cares desperately about them

He is obsessed with polls. These numbers will provoke another few days of OCD behavior trying to convince himself he actually popular.

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[Squinch]

6. I keep hearing that it's plummeting but the numbers always seem to be the same

and can it really be possible that I hate 42% of Americans?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Hate is not a personally healthy emotion for you to indulge in. It's not necessary.

All objectives can be achieved more efficiently and effectively without hating.

[Squinch]

16. Don't make me add you to the list.

(That was a joke, son.)

[lapislzi]

7. Get ready for...

"Very dishonest organization." "Unfair!" "Unreliable numbers."

You just pick and choose from a menu of words and make up the tweets yourself.

[SoCalMusicLover]

8. There Is A Floor

I would not expect his approval to drop too much, because there will ALWAYS be a certain percentage that will approve of him. Remember in the waning days of the disaster that was the Shrub presidency, he still had #'s in the low 30's?

1/3rd of the U.S. will always stand by their party's candidate, regardless of what they do. If Hitler came back as a Republican, he would still get 30% of the vote, even if his platform was killing all the Jews.

[Zambero]

13. GWB broke below 30% in year eight

Since 45 now makes 43 look like a Rushmore candidate by comparison, who knows? Fully a third of Trump votes saw him negatively at the time of the election, but opted for "change" (falling somewhere between chaos and catastrophe, change indeed). There is quite a bit of thin ice in Trump's positives.

[SoCalMusicLover]

14. Valid Points

If 1/3rd of the 48% who voted for him, viewed him negatively, that's 16%, subtracted from 48%, equals the 32% who will view him positively no matter what. This is their base. These are the folks who will support him, even if he starts dropping bombs on random countries.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. "folks who will support him, even if he starts dropping bombs on random countries."

... or on their own heads. They would cheer as the bomb drops from overhead thinking it was supposed to be for someone else.

[NewJeffCT]

19. Yes, I remember Bush in the upper 20s

Didn't Colbert call his few supporters "The Backwash" at the White House correspondent's dinner?

[NYC Liberal]

20. Bush hit 19% near the end.

[JMCoast]

24. Yes, that 30-35%

has held true for a long time. Even when Bill Clinton had high approval ratings, there was that 30-35% who couldn't stand the guy. It's those same people who will always like Trump, no matter who he bombs, imprisons, tortures, deports, fires, appoints.......etc...

[colsohlibgal]

9. If True How Discouraging

After all that has already gone on 43% are OK with it? If true that is more than alarming.

[NewJeffCT]

21. approval ratings tend to lag the news by several weeks

so, unless it was a huge event like a terror attack or the media breathlessly reporting that the FBI is re-opening the Clinton email investigation, it will take time...

Even though most people knew the Iraq War was a disaster by early 2004 at the latest, Bush's approval ratings didn't fall below 50% until after the 2004 elections and then didn't really tank until after Katrina in 2005.

[MFM008]

10. still to high

.................................................

[BlueStater]

11. 43% of this country has their heads up their asses.

Unbelievable (or not really, sadly).

[JDC]

12. Maybe people got tired of being polled & gave up

The numbers are probably more like 90% disapproval. Just like the jobs numbers.

(Sarcasm)

[Hulk]

18. And yet the haters are thrilled.

Listened to NPR a few minutes ago. Interviewing Pennsylvania dRumpf supporters. They are thrilled. He is doing exactly as they wanted when they voted for him. Drag this once proud country down the shitter...and they are cheering all the way down. Dumb fuckers.

[DeminPennswoods]

22. At least 1 PA Trump voter seems to be questioning her vote

Happened to be out food shopping today and supporting a locally owned grocer. As I was leaving I overheard one of the mgt staff talking to a delivery guy. He said that Trump was doing what he said he would. She responded that she always admits she voted for him, but that keeping a doc who works at the Cleveland Clinic didn't seem right. She was obviously afraid of "bad people", but maybe the EO was a bit of bridge too far for her.