Silliest of Willies wrote:
Yeah, about that... wrote:
I'm not sure that they'd vote for Sanders or Harris, but a whole lot won't be voting for Trump. (Not exactly the same thing, I realize.)
Anyway, I see that for the last 27 months President Trump (in the poll-of-polls) has never had an approval rating that was as high as his disapproval rating. That may simply reflect the population--he didn't win a plurality of American votes in 2016, after all, much less a majority--but you'd really expect higher ratings for someone who's presiding over this good an economy.
Sad.
You realize Obama's approval and disapproval ratings were essentially the same at Trump's at this point in their presidencies, right?
It's pretty normal for most politicians to have lower approval than disapproval ratings (currently for example, Pelosi, Schumer, and McConnell all have approval ratings significantly below Trump's).
You are wrong. It’s common for presidents to have spreads of +\- 5%.
Obama had a much tighter spread than Trump, whose disapproval is consistently over 50%.
Here let me educate you.
In the last 10 polls or do for Trump from the end of April to now:
Rasmussen 5/1 - 5/5 50 48 +2
NBC/WSJ 4/28 - 5/1 46 51 -5
Harris 4/30 - 5/1 46 54 -8
Reuters 4/29 - 4/30 39 56 -17
Economist 4/27 - 4/30 44 53 -9
The Hill 4/29 - 4/30 46 54 -8
Politico 4/28 - 4/29 42 54 -12
Quinnipiac 4/26 - 4/29 41 55 -14
Gallup 4/17 - 4/30 46 50 -4
NPR/PBS/Marist 4/24 - 4/29 42 54 -12
CNN 4/25 - 4/28 44 53 -9
ABC/WP 4/22 - 4/25 42 54 -12
Now Obama during same time period in 2011:
Pew Research 5/5 - 5/8 1003 A 50 39 +11.0
NBC News 5/5 - 5/7 800 A 52 41 +11.0
Quinnipiac 5/2 - 5/3 834 RV 52 40 +12.0
Newsweek/Daily Beast 5/2 - 5/3 600 A 48 49 -1.0
CBS News/NY Times* 5/2 - 5/3 532 A 57 37 +20.0
CNN/Opinion Research 5/2 - 5/2 700 A 52 43 +9.0
SurveyUSA 5/2 - 5/2 1000 A 46 42 +4.0
Wash Post/Pew/SRBI 5/2 - 5/2 654 A 56 38 +18.0
Newsweek/Daily Beast 4/30 - 5/1 600 A 48 49 -1.0
CNN/Opinion Research 4/29 - 5/1 A 51 46 +5.0
Quinnipiac 4/26 - 5/1 1409 RV 46 48 -2.0
FOX News 4/25 - 4/27 911 RV 47 47 -
In no poll during the time period was Obama’s disapproval above 50%.
Alan