Americans Now Evenly Divided on Impeaching Trump
Source: Public Policy Polling
February 10, 2017
PPP's new national poll finds that Donald Trump's popularity as President has declined precipitously just over the last two weeks. On our first poll of his Presidency voters were evenly divided on Trump, with 44% approving of him and 44% also disapproving. Now his approval rating is 43%, while his disapproval has gone all the way up to 53%. If voters could choose they'd rather have both Barack Obama (52/44) or Hillary Clinton (49/45) instead of Trump.
Just three weeks into his administration, voters are already evenly divided on the issue of impeaching Trump with 46% in favor and 46% opposed. Support for impeaching Trump has crept up from 35% 2 weeks ago, to 40% last week, to its 46% standing this week. While Clinton voters initially only supported Trump's impeachment 65/14, after seeing him in office over the last few weeks that's gone up already to 83/6.
Here are the reasons things are going bad for Trump:
-Voters think he's over reaching to make a country safe...that they already consider to be safe. 66% of Americans consider the United States to be a safe country, to only 23% who consider it unsafe. Perhaps as an outgrowth of that sentiment only 45% of voters support Trump's Executive Order on immigration, to 49% who are opposed to it. Among those who do support it you have to wonder how well thought out their position is- by a 51/23 margin Trump voters say that the Bowling Green Massacre shows why Trump's immigration policy is needed.
By a 48/43 spread, voters do think that the intent of the Executive Order is to be a Muslim ban. And just 22% support a Muslim ban, to 65% who are opposed. The order has also increasingly raised issues about Trump's competence in voters' eyes- only 27% think the Executive Order was well executed, to 66% who think it was poorly executed. The spread on that question was 39/55 when we asked last week.
Read more: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2017/02/americans-now-evenly-divided-on-impeaching-trump.html
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,985 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)nor installing a Cabinet of stooges serving corporate money that
pollutes, exploits, undermines the workers of America
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Contemporary civil wars do no look like opinion polls.
They are in fact, often bloody, violent, repressive conflicts that any rational mind would reject as a matter of course rather than enabling through petulant fantasy, magical prophecy and a peevish cowering behind the pretense of concern.
Let's hope everyone sees it as such...
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)The polls show how deeply divided we are in so many ways. Ante vellum was marked by huge divides in the country. The divides have similarities to today. We have really distance and unreconcilable views of reality and direction of the country.
underpants
(182,789 posts)God, you are such a heart whore
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)been allowed to run for re-election he probably would have beaten Trump by 20 points.
In other words, Trump IS getting a post-inauguration honeymoon of sorts from the voters, just like every other new president. But Trump is doing such a bad job that this is the best he can do, even with an electorate that is willing to give him a chance.
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... one half, "Yes" ...
... the other half, "HELL, YES!" ...
Yeah this poll is FAKE NEWS!!!!
83% want this buffoon out, and growing.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)That's not so far from how people voted on election day. Popular vote was roughly 48/46. So, not much has changed.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)If Obama had been the nominee he would have won by 20 points IMO. This poll indicates that he would have won by just 8.
So the American people are giving Trump the traditional post-inauguration honeymoon period. But in his case he is still incredibly unpopular because his policies, and his character, are just so awful.
triron
(22,001 posts)difference is due to electoral engineering and corruption (eg due to Russian hacking)
roamer65
(36,745 posts)6 months from now it will be in the high 50's.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Give me a break! It's really hard to hide my disgust with my teaching co-workers who I know voted for the Orangutan.
Now they're whining about DeVos. What the hell did they think was going to happen? That he was just going to build a wall and keep out the Muslims?
I really want to see these selfish, racist people get what's coming to them.