11-26-2018, 03:25 PM
Gallup poll
So much for the idea that Americans are rallying behind the President after the midterm election.
Here's the good news for the President:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/2...id-1012184
My comment:
If there is a silver lining to the cloud of huge losses in the 2028 midterm for Republicans, then it is in Senate gains (apparently nobody brought up such a topic as "legitimate rape" or something similarly stupid -- until the Mississippi run-off election) and, even more, that Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama had big losses in the House in the midterm following their first-time elections and then won handily.
On the other side, those three learned something after the defeats for their Parties. Reagan cooled down an overheated economy with a harsh deal for many (lower your expectations, young worker, and if you are unhappy with your dead-end job and its pay, then take a second low-pay, dead-end job to make ends meet, maybe buy yourself something with your employee discount in the shopping mall), put an end to the inflation of the 1970s, and won in a landslide. Clinton gave up on tax-and-spend government. Obama played the adult role against the Tea party pols -- and won.
Let's put it this way: one can get an effective Presidency, if not the one that one likes, if one has the skill set of Ronald Reagan and the temperament of Dwight Eisenhower. The problem with that for Donald Trump is that that far better describes Barack Obama than it does himself!
If he learns something and moderates he might just win re-election. On the other side we have the pervasive, severe corruption and abuse of power that marks this Presidency like no other.
Quote:Approve 38 (-5)
Disapprove 60 (+7)
This is more in line with the 38/56 from two weeks ago.
The net -22 is Trump's worst since Feb. 18 (37/59) and the 60% disapproval equals his highest in Gallup's weekly survey, seen three times last year (35/60 each time).
So much for the idea that Americans are rallying behind the President after the midterm election.
Here's the good news for the President:
Quote:Year President House seats Senate seats Reelected?
1970 Nixon -12 +2 Yes
1978 Carter -15 -3 No
1982 Reagan -26 +1 Yes
1990 Bush -8 -1 No
1994 Clinton -52 -8 Yes
2002 Bush +8 +2 Yes
2010 Obama -63 -6 Yes
2018 Trump -39* +2* ???
2018 results do not include unresolved House races or results of special Senate election in Mississippi.
Source: American Presidency Project/POLITICO Elections
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/2...id-1012184
My comment:
If there is a silver lining to the cloud of huge losses in the 2028 midterm for Republicans, then it is in Senate gains (apparently nobody brought up such a topic as "legitimate rape" or something similarly stupid -- until the Mississippi run-off election) and, even more, that Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama had big losses in the House in the midterm following their first-time elections and then won handily.
On the other side, those three learned something after the defeats for their Parties. Reagan cooled down an overheated economy with a harsh deal for many (lower your expectations, young worker, and if you are unhappy with your dead-end job and its pay, then take a second low-pay, dead-end job to make ends meet, maybe buy yourself something with your employee discount in the shopping mall), put an end to the inflation of the 1970s, and won in a landslide. Clinton gave up on tax-and-spend government. Obama played the adult role against the Tea party pols -- and won.
Let's put it this way: one can get an effective Presidency, if not the one that one likes, if one has the skill set of Ronald Reagan and the temperament of Dwight Eisenhower. The problem with that for Donald Trump is that that far better describes Barack Obama than it does himself!
If he learns something and moderates he might just win re-election. On the other side we have the pervasive, severe corruption and abuse of power that marks this Presidency like no other.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.