05-28-2020, 07:40 AM
(05-28-2020, 05:58 AM)Mick Wrote: [quote="stupac2" pid='281986' dateline='1590625967']
And the polls show Trump slipping. As I'd predicted months ago. When Trump took office, he had a 4% positive approval rating. A month ago, it was 5% negative. Yesterday, the disparity between positive and negative views of Trump was -11.2%:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/tru...l-ratings/
Gallup's published results as of November 17, 2016
"PRINCETON, N.J. -- Donald Trump's favorable rating has improved from 34% to 42% after his election as president. While a majority in the U.S. still have an unfavorable view of him, his image is the best it has been since March 2011 when 43% viewed him positively.
Gallup measured opinions of Trump infrequently from 1999 through 2015, and then on a continuous basis from June 2015 through the election. Americans have consistently viewed Trump more negatively than positively. The sole exception in Gallup's trend came in 2005, when Trump's reality show The Apprentice was among the most popular TV programs. At that time, 50% of Americans had a favorable opinion of Trump and 38% an unfavorable one.
Trump's favorability ratings have increased among all political party groups since the election. Republicans have shown the greatest increase -- 11 percentage points -- to 82%. Thirty-nine percent of independents, up from 32%, and 10% of Democrats, up from 5%, view Trump positively."
Trump has never had consistently positive approval ratings and his ratings were only slightly less negative than usual after the election in 2016.
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