12-03-2017, 03:35 PM
Gallup, 12/1
Approve 33 (-1)
Disapprove 62 (+2)
This equals Trump's worst-ever numbers in Gallup on both ends.
After being mostly stable for a few weeks, movement over the last few days has been very bad for Trump:
11/28: 38/55 (-17)
11/29: 36/57 (-21)
11/30: 34/60 (-26)
12/1: 33/62 (-29)
(OK, it did recover a bit ...34/61, or -27, today).
Throughout November, the President's approval ratings have typically been in the high 30s and disapproval in the middle 50s. The change is outside the margin of error. It could be an outlier or it could represent a transitory event.
This said, the guilty plea by Michael Flynn will not go away. The tax bill that the President wants as does America's new aristocratic elite but the rest of America despises will not go away. I saw a really-bad favorability poll for the President in Colorado last week: 64% unfavorability. Colorado may be drifting D about as rapidly as West Virginia drifted R in the early part of this century, but hardly any state swings that fast. Disapproval for the President in California is at 68%, as if the difference between Clinton getting 61% of the vote in California and Trump being rejected by 68% of voters has any legal effect. It's still 55 electoral votes whether a Democrat gets a tiny plurality or 70% of the vote.
If these horrid approval ratings stick, I think I have an explanation.
If there are any statewide polls this weekend, then such might corroborate the tracking poll.
Approve 33 (-1)
Disapprove 62 (+2)
This equals Trump's worst-ever numbers in Gallup on both ends.
After being mostly stable for a few weeks, movement over the last few days has been very bad for Trump:
11/28: 38/55 (-17)
11/29: 36/57 (-21)
11/30: 34/60 (-26)
12/1: 33/62 (-29)
(OK, it did recover a bit ...34/61, or -27, today).
Throughout November, the President's approval ratings have typically been in the high 30s and disapproval in the middle 50s. The change is outside the margin of error. It could be an outlier or it could represent a transitory event.
This said, the guilty plea by Michael Flynn will not go away. The tax bill that the President wants as does America's new aristocratic elite but the rest of America despises will not go away. I saw a really-bad favorability poll for the President in Colorado last week: 64% unfavorability. Colorado may be drifting D about as rapidly as West Virginia drifted R in the early part of this century, but hardly any state swings that fast. Disapproval for the President in California is at 68%, as if the difference between Clinton getting 61% of the vote in California and Trump being rejected by 68% of voters has any legal effect. It's still 55 electoral votes whether a Democrat gets a tiny plurality or 70% of the vote.
If these horrid approval ratings stick, I think I have an explanation.
If there are any statewide polls this weekend, then such might corroborate the tracking poll.
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.