Trump Remains Unpopular; Voters Prefer Obama on SCOTUS Pick

[DonViejo]

Source: Public Policy Polling

December 09, 2016

PPP's newest national poll find that although Donald Trump is a little bit more popular than he was during the campaign, a majority of Americans still have a negative opinion of him. 43% of voters view Trump favorably to 51% who have an unfavorable view of him. On PPP's last national poll, in late September, Trump's favorability rating stood at 39/55. Trump's popularity continues to pale in comparison to Barack Obama's. Obama ends his final year in office with a 50/45 approval spread. When it comes to the question of who voters trust more to pick the new Supreme Court justice, Obama beats out Trump 52-45.

Voters don't think that Trump's Electoral College victory while losing the popular vote is really fair- 50% think the candidate who receives the most votes nationally in the election should become President, to only 37% who disagree with that concept. Over the course of the campaign we found there was a cult like aspect to Trump's support, where any idea he put forth a substantial share of his supporters would go along with. We see that trend continuing post election. 60% of Trump voters think that Hillary Clinton received millions of illegal votes to only 18% who disagree with that concept and 22% who aren't sure either way. A couple other findings related to the vote in this year's election:

-40% of Trump voters insist that he won the national popular vote to only 49% who grant that Clinton won it and 11% who aren't sure.

-Only 53% of Trump voters think that California's votes should be allowed to count in the national popular vote. 29% don't think they should be allowed to count, and another 18% are unsure.

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[33taw]

1. I'm not sure this really mattters. Voters voted for Trump and that is all that matters.

[PearliePoo2]

2. Oh MY! Idiot-elect is not going to like this one bit!

Here come the tweets 5-4-3-2....

[Blue Shoes]

3. Its out of the voters hands now.

Don't think the Republicans won't sacrifice a few seats in the legislature for an ultra conservative justice for the next 30 years.

[Seedersandleechers]

4. That just breaks my heart,

tears me apart.

[PlanetBev]

5. There were repeated warnings about this through the election cycle

But some sat home on their thumbs and cast their fate to the wind and others cast their lot with an egregious excuse for a human beIng.

Thanks a bunch!

Enjoy the demise of your Republic.

[pnwmom]

6. What is the rationale behind asking them if California's votes "should count"?

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Then why not ask them if Texas's votes should count?

It sounds like they're trying to plant an idea that CA's votes are illegitimate.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Confused Me Too, Mom!

That phrase came out of left field. Is that where they think all the illegal alien votes came from? Why not Texas? They share a much bigger border with Mexico than CA. Convenient how Texas and Arizona, both huge border entry points for their dreaded illegals are ok but CA isn't.

And, finally, why would the pollster even ask that question? Is there some right wing meme out there about CA that i haven't heard?

Strange comment, indeed.

[pnwmom]

10. I even went in and looked at the poll, and there is the question,

without any context -- and no mention of any other state in that way.

[Merlot]

11. A large part of HRC's popular vote total came from California

So trump started a rumor that California lets "illegals" vote, "millions come across the border to vote."

California is blue and trump didn't make a dent here, so he had to lie about why. So now trump voters are comfortable saying that the votes of fellow Americans (mostly west coast liberals) don't need to be counted. That is a dangerous trend.

California is the 6th largerst economy in the WORLD. We send more money to the federal gov't than we get back, now they want to silence us as well?

There will be inevitible conflicts with California and a trump administration. Not sure how this is going to work moving forward.

[pnwmom]

12. But Trump got lots of votes from Texas and Texas shares

a long border with Mexico and has many legal and illegal immigrants.

There is no excuse for PPP to ask the question about CA and not about TX -- no matter what rumor Trump started.

As it is, this looks like a push-poll, and it appears PPP is helping to pass along the rumor.

[Merlot]

13. I agree the question validated the lie and should not have been asked.

[ananda]

7. The fact that he has any popularity at all ..

.. scares the hell outta me.

[RoccoR2]

8. We all know how reliable Polls are

Not believing any

[pnwmom]

14. The polls at the end had Hillary ahead by about 2 points, which is what she won by.

Unfortunately, they were national polls and she wasn't far enough ahead in the swing states.