(01-17-2017, 02:15 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-17-2017, 06:46 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Still going down...
CNN Wrote:Donald Trump will become president Friday with an approval rating of just 40%, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, the lowest of any recent president and 44 points below that of President Barack Obama, the 44th president.On the plus side, impeachment proceedings haven't started yet.
Following a tumultuous transition period, approval ratings for Trump's handling of the transition are more than 20 points below those for any of his three most recent predecessors. Obama took the oath in 2009 with an 84% approval rating, 67% approved of Clinton's transition as of late December 1992 and 61% approved of George W. Bush's transition just before he took office in January 2001.
Very chaotic times await.
New Monmouth Poll (1/12-1/15)
Quote:Trump favorability rating: 34% Favorable, 46% Unfavorable
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institu...US_011717/
men: -6
women: -16
whites: +5
non-whites: -45
income less than $50k: -10
income $50-100k: -14
income over $100k: -21
Yikes! With this low level of support he or Pence will need a whites-only electorate to get re-elected.
Different criteria apply to this poll than to the CNN/ORC poll, but the margin is the same. Donald Trump will need miracles to avoid being one of the most despised Presidents ever.
I will be more than ready for Barack Obama again, even if that requires that he be Prime Minister (which requires a practical re-do of the Constitution), but after Trump who knows what will be necessary.
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.