Trump's approval rating drops below his disapproval rating

[DonViejo]

Source: International Business Times

16 FEB 2017 AT 10:09 ET

For the first time during his presidency, Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen behind his disapproval rating, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll published Wednesday.

Just 46 percent of Americans have approved of the job he's doing, according to the survey. Half of the country disapproved of the job he's doing. "The data indicates that all the furor around foreign policy is not playing to what the public perceives are his strengths, which remain the economy and jobs," the polling team said in a press release.

Sixteen percent of Americans said the economy was their top concern, while 14 percent said their main priority was healthcare and 13 percent said terrorism. Fifty-three percent of Americans approved of Trump's performance regarding jobs and 52 percent approved of his handling of the economy, according to the poll. The survey was conducted from Friday through Tuesday, interviewing 1,744 people online and has a margin of error of 2.7 percentage points.

The first three weeks or so of Trump's presidency have largely been defined by controversy. An executive order temporarily banning travel to the U.S. by people from seven Muslim-majority countries sparked widespread protests at airports and other places across the country.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trumps-approval-rating-drops-below-his-disapproval-rating/

[Dopers_Greed]

1. How does even a single person approve?

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Exactly

[qanda]

2. What?

That's the most confusing article I've ever read.

[Lanius]

3. So at 46 percent approval that means just about every Republican supports him

as well as a few conservative Democrats and Independents. My question is why? Drumpf has done nothing but display his ignorance, arrogance and ineptitude. Will they eventually turn on him when he doesn't defeat ISIS or usher in a golden age for jobs?

[LakeVermilion]

5. Its all about branding!

After 40 years of marketing the Republican brand, not many of the fools who bought those ideas can admit their folly. Thus whatever the Republicans present is acceptable to them.

I'd like to think that we are above that.

[WhiteTara]

9. I think the basis is racism. "They" hate "Other" and

find inordinate pleasure in the misery of others.

[J_William_Ryan]

14. Because those who support Trump

are just as ignorant, just as arrogant, and have the same contempt for sound, responsible governance as the idiot Trump.

[lagomorph777]

4. This must be the most Trumpositive poll of all.

I think all other non-alt-fact polls have had him underwater since day 1.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Day 8, yeah, but this alt-fact poll is very much lagging. . . nt

[mpcamb]

7. They must have used the Koch Industries mailing list for these results.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. All this shows is the continued long term dumbing down of 'news' and the rise of RW stations

after Reagan's elimination of the media Fairness Doctrine in 1986

These supporters live in an alt world of bumper sticker infotainment newzzz.

[The Wizard]

11. But did you see

that panache he has with signing those executive orders. The name Kim Jong Don is well earned.

[IntraPolitico]

12. Anyone surprised?

I'm not.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. I expect many

like myself, don't participate or answer polls (phone or otherwise). The better judge might be the protests and what happens during the upcoming elections.

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. I fear that there is plenty of time for a "redemption arch"

He and his pal Mark Burnette have a lot of experience in the reality show machinations of creating a villain and then at the right time, have a situation set up to show some 'other side', some softer human side. And then have his character have a eureka moment (or pretend to at least) where he publicly realizes that he must be a better person, be more inclusive etc...

He, and his Republican enablers, can push through a lot of RW bills, destroy everything Obama accomplished, now, because in politics, even a month is a long time. Even after selling off every park and school and service to their private industry friends. Plenty of time to normalize or put in the past these radical actions in the present, and learn how to be "presidential" for the cameras at least before the next federal election.

There may be a moment when he finally realizes, when Burnette or others smarter than he is convince him, that his disapproval ratings can be reversed if he throws more moderate voters a bone, even if he has opposition in the Republican houses. Like say, coming out for keeping the ACA clauses of keeping kids on insurance until 25 and the no punishment for pre-existing conditions (as he inferred after meeting Obama). Or re-affirming his election promises of not touching SS or Medicare/medicaid. Combine that with either
a. some family health tragedy
b. some large terror attack (whether a false flag or real)

He with Burnette can craft this redemption arch to land just before the next Presidential election. He has a lot of time. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I am just uneasy that all this DESERVED negative attention against him may get to the point where his PR group can milk it as him being piled onto and for sport. That he's not such a bad guy. He was inexperienced and now he understands he has to be a president for all Americans etc....maybe even a *gulp* public apology. That for anyone that is difficult, but for the Don to be so humble would be framed as the greatest humanist character move ever.

We all should be prepared for this, and to find a way to prevent this.

[truthisfreedom]

16. Two weeks ago there were polls showing 53% disapproval.

Screw the polls. We don't need them for this subject.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. I Question Their Methodology

This is a radically different result than a poll referenced here at DU earlier this week or maybe last Friday. And, i had never seen a poll that had him at 53% since inauguration.

Why would this poll be SO different than all the rest? Answer: methodology