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[pokeystaples]

And to think that most of us voted for Trump.

Don't spread this lie.

 

[EatinOlives]

Mind you this is DURING the 100-day presidential honeymoon period.

 

[BajiBoxer]

And to think that most of us voted for Trump.

That's quite the alternative fact you've got there.

 

[Neuromancer]

And just think, Hillary lost to this guy.

With a lot of help from Russia and the FBI.

And to think that most of us voted for Trump.

3 million more people voted for Clinton.

 

[Heroman]

And to think that most of us voted for Trump.

Yep, me a young black men voted Donald Trump cause you know I like being stop and frisk.

 

[BajiBoxer]

1. FBI investigating trump campaign for possible treason
2. Failure to repeal and replace obamacare, a massive campaign promise.

I'd say it's a huge win for Trump to through a week like that and only lose 1 percent.

1. Hillary's fault.
2. Ryan's fault.

Simple minded people fall for simplistic lies.

 

[Very Berry Sunday]

By us, I meant the entire United States voters, not GAF or popular vote.

 

[GurgleBot20]

By us, I meant the entire United States voters, not GAF or popular vote.

You're claim still doesn't make sense. Who is "most of" referring to?

 

[BajiBoxer]

By us, I meant the entire United States voters, not GAF or popular vote.

I think "electoral college" is the term you're looking for.

 

[Ac30]

By us, I meant the entire United States voters, not GAF or popular vote.

I know it's never happening but y'all really gotta abolish the Electoral College. It makes individual voters with differing opinions in red or blue states completely pointless. I'm willing to bet it strongly depresses turnout; what Democrat in Arkansas or Republican in California is going to turn out to vote? They're missing out on ballot votes and local elections too, but the presidency is the draw for those.

 

[MetalGearZed]

what does the 36% point to? really?
What has Trump even gotten passed?

 

[capitalCORN]

It's mesmerizing seeing his approval fall week after week with no end. It's like watching thrown feces slide down the wall, leaving a shit stain on it's eventual drop to the bottom.

 

[Pedrito]

In his weekly rallies, his approval rating is 100%.

 

[TheCochese]

By us, I meant the entire United States voters, not GAF or popular vote.

Don't make me break out the side-eye squint.

 

[HvySky]

By us, I meant the entire United States voters, not GAF or popular vote.

Bruh, that's what popular vote means.

 

[rokkerkory]

Best approvals

 

[Toxi]

By us, I meant the entire United States voters, not GAF or popular vote.

Uh, you do know what the popular vote is, right?

And it gets even more untrue if you include the people who stayed home.

 

[Ac30]

what does the 36% point to? really?
What has Trump even gotten passed?

Liberals are mad. Therefore, 36% are happy.

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

Listening to NPR, the excuses people are coming up with are pretty crazy. They had 3 guys on there trying to say that the health care bill was all a master plan by Trump to out Ryan as a fraud shuckster knowing that his plan would suck and not pass and Trump is a hero for continuing to drain the swamp through this calculated move.

Oy.

 

[NYR]

http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/207416/trump-approval-rating-drops-new-low.aspx



Not low enough.. only 1% less after last Monday after all that went down last week..?

FAKE NEWS BRUH. If the President says it is fake news, it is fake news! #Trump #AlexJones #Killary #LOCK #HER #UP #Sarcasm

 

[Jobbs]

I'm a little shocked as many as 36% approve of this fucking raging toilet fire of a mess. I'd like to think only 5-10% of americans are that dumb/crazy/hateful

 

[HvySky]

Best approvals

Exactly. Who cares how many approvals you have when they're this tremendous? Quality over quantity.

 

[Heretic]

Honest question: Does any of this really matter? Polls are absolutely meaningless, aren't they?

 

[Horns]

It's only going to get worse.

 

[Ac30]

Honest question: Does any of this really matter? Polls are absolutely meaningless, aren't they?

public opinion is important when making policy decisions; it affects how congress will react. Unpopular president, more push back

Unless you're Trump in which case nahhhhh

 

[GurgleBot20]

Honest question: Does any of this really matter? Polls are absolutely meaningless, aren't they?

Not really. People point to the recent election as a failure of polling, but they were actually pretty accurate in that the results were in the margin of error for key states, and Clinton won the popular vote around the same margin she had in the polls.

People confused polls with punditry, and put too much faith in those "Clinton has a 99% chance of victory!" headlines.

 

[Elfotografoalocado]

Wait so Orange Fuhrer failed to fuck people over, and his approval decreased? Must be salty Republicans.

Isn't it people realizing that he wanted to fuck them over?

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

So what's the lowest approval rating on record? Is it Bush's 25%?

And is this the fastest drop after a new president steps into office in history?

 

[Ogodei]

Considering that Trump probably has a floor at 25% of irredeemable racists/ misogynistic White Nationalists, still 11% too high.

"Approve" is more flexible than "would vote to re-elect." The Alan Keyes/Obama race for Illinois Senate shows that there's about 25% of people who'll vote R for no reason other than the pleasure of voting R (popularly coined because Alan Keyes had absolutely nothing to offer, he wasn't even from Illinois!).

The diehard redhat crowd could start to disapprove of him as he fails to do the bad things he promised like the wall, or the failure of the Muslim ban so far. "Trump got beat by some ivory tower judge, i don't approve of that."

The importance for voting is that the parts of the base that disapprove may become demoralized and deactivate as voters.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I'm curious what events will lead to a 25% approval rating.

Because you know it's going to happen.

 

[jmdajr]

Does FoxNews do a Poll?

If that shit was low than I'd be awesomely impressed.

Overall, sad it's that high.

 

[Laevateinn]

So what's the lowest approval rating on record? Is it Bush's 25%?

And is this the fastest drop after a new president steps into office in history?

Lowest is Truman at 22 %.

It's pretty weird for it to be this low so early.

 

[wumster3000]

Still 72% too high

I am confused...

37% too high.

That's more like it.

 

[mj1108]

37% too high.

 

[Steel]

Oh man, spicy is such scum in this news conference.

 

[Aselith]

Does FoxNews do a Poll?

If that shit was low than I'd be awesomely impressed.

Overall, sad it's that high.

It was 48% in February http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-trump-in-first-presidential-report-card.html

Looking for anything more recent

 

[Futurevoid]

Does FoxNews do a Poll?

If that shit was low than I'd be awesomely impressed.

Overall, sad it's that high.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2017/03/15/fox-news-poll-315/

Fox News from the week of March 12-14th.

43%/51%

 

[Steejee]

Does FoxNews do a Poll?

If that shit was low than I'd be awesomely impressed.

Overall, sad it's that high.

Rasmussen, which pretty much always skews pro-GOP, has him below 50% approval too, and it was like the only one that ever had him above 50% at any point in this presidency.

 

[winjet81]

Just for context:
Presidential Approval Ratings - First 100 days

1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower 73%
1961 John Kennedy 83%
1963 LBJ 78%
1969 Richard Nixon 62%
1974 Gerald Ford 71%
1977 Jimmy Carter 63%
1981 Ronald Reagan 68%
1989 George Bush 56%
1993 William J. Clinton 55%
2001 George W. Bush 62%
2009 Barack Obama 65%

 

[Gordon Shumway]

 

[Zok310]

Over 60% of the country disagrees with this orange clown, nice job republicans. We obviously hated Hillary more.....

 

[BoogieWoogie]

I'm curious what events will lead to a 25% approval rating.

Because you know it's going to happen.

When something truly terrible/catastrophic happens and Trump goes to play golf again.

 

[RinsFury]

Let's reach single digits before the year is out. Shouldn't be hard with Orange even turning on his base of idiots.

 

[Sephzilla]

@ the "its still too high" folks, see...

Just for context:
Presidential Approval Ratings - First 100 days

1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower 73%
1961 John Kennedy 83%
1963 LBJ 78%
1969 Richard Nixon 62%
1974 Gerald Ford 71%
1977 Jimmy Carter 63%
1981 Ronald Reagan 68%
1989 George Bush 56%
1993 William J. Clinton 55%
2001 George W. Bush 62%
2009 Barack Obama 65%

Trump's approval rating at this point in his presidency is completely unpresidented. He's absolutely going to smash GW Bush's 25% marker especially if/when the Russia stuff really hits the fan.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

As Colbert said to President Bush's face, this just means 64% of the country approves of the job Trump is not doing.

 

[Heretic]

public opinion is important when making policy decisions; it affects how congress will react. Unpopular president, more push back

Unless you're Trump in which case nahhhhh

Not really. People point to the recent election as a failure of polling, but they were actually pretty accurate in that the results were in the margin of error for key states, and Clinton won the popular vote around the same margin she had in the polls.

People confused polls with punditry, and put too much faith in those "Clinton has a 99% chance of victory!" headlines.

Thanks for the reply

 

[Ac30]

As Colbert said to President Bush's face, this just means 64% of the country approves of the job Trump is not doing.

That was legendary. I wish Trump would show up to the correspondents' dinner this year, will be a riot.

 

[ascii42]

Does FoxNews do a Poll?

If that shit was low than I'd be awesomely impressed.

Overall, sad it's that high.

Fox News polls the country when they do, not just Fox News viewers, so I don't think their results skew particularly conservative.

 

[SpaceWolf]

"Emperor Palpatine gets low approval ratings"

 

[Mighty Chin]

What did Obama ever do to drop to 37% approval rating?