Poll: Trumps approval rating highest in West Virginia, lowest in Vermont

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump received his highest approval ratings in 2017 from residents of West Virginia, while his lowest approval rating came from Vermont, a poll released Tuesday found.

A Gallup Poll showed that 61 percent of West Virginians approved of Trump's job performance in 2017, the highest marks of any state. Vermont gave Trump his lowest marks, with 26 percent of voters approving of his performance.

Vermont is home to Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is considered a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020.

Trump's overall approval rating averaged 38 percent in 2017, according to Gallup, but his reception varied among states.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-trumps-approval-rating-highest-in-west-virginia-lowest-in-vermont/ar-BBItt5D?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[Squinch]

1. It's cause he brought all those coal jobs back. Except he didn't, but they're too dumb to notice,

[Va Lefty]

2. WTF happened to West Virginia?

Used to be a fairly reliable blue state. Hell, Dukakis won it in 1988! W won it in 2000 and it has been getting worse ever since. What happened? I know there was a backlash to Gore's call for clean energy, but that can't be all of it can it?

[doc03]

4. NAFTA EPA and gunz

[kydo]

8. Meth now opiades, lack of education, lack of healthcare pretty much has them doomed.

[ProudLib72]

3. Not Bernie again

Why do they even have to mention that?

[leftynyc]

5. He's below 40% in TEXAS

That's gotta sting. My state gives him 30% - must be the upstaters throwing that off.

[angrychair]

6. Florida is at 41%

Georgia is 41, Michigan is at 40 and North Carolina is at 40

He is at 51% or greater disapproval in 30 states and DC.

You don’t win midterms and presidential elections with those kind of numbers...

My state of Washington is at 34% approval which is a lot higher than I like...

[leftynyc]

9. Yours are more important numbers

Far more likely for a Democrat to pick up seats in those states. I wish we weren't facing such long odds in taking the senate.

[trueblue2007]

7. we HATE him here in Oregon

[appalachiablue]

10. TRUMP approval above 50% in 12 states- OBAMA above 50% in 41 states

for his first year in office by comparison.

'Donald Trump's Approval Rating Is Above 50% Only In 12 States,' CNN Politics, Jan. 30, 2018

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is expected to trumpet a unity message in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, an attempt to turn a corner from the divisiveness of his first year in office.
New polling on that first year of Trump shows that the President has a lot of work to do in bringing the country together. There are just 12 states where Trump's job approval rating was above 50% for the entirety of 2017. That pales in comparison to the 41 states where then-President Barack Obama was above 50% approval for his first year on office.

Those numbers are reflective of two things:
1. Trump's overall job approval number nationwide was never over 50% in Gallup polling at any point in 2017. Trump's high point was 366 days ago when he was at 45% approval and 47% disapproval. The last time Trump's approval was over 40% in Gallup polling was at the end of May 2017 -- when he was at 41%. Trump averaged the lowest job approval number -- 38% -- of any president ever in his first year in office in Gallup data. At the end of 2009, Obama's approval rating was at 57%.

2. Trump's most loyal voters -- and states -- are staying with him. His job approval was highest in places like West Virginia, North Dakota and Wyoming where he won by huge margins in 2016. (One interesting note: Democratic senators are running for re-election in both West Virginia and North Dakota this fall.) Many of those states are also less populated.

Viewed broadly, these numbers should worry Republicans -- especially those on the House side hoping to hold onto their majority after the 2018 election. "Not only is the overall number not encouraging for his party heading into the 2018 midterms, but the latest state-level averages suggest Trump will be a liability for Republican candidates in far more states than he will be an asset," writes Gallup's Lydia Saad on the poll results...
At the moment, it's virtually impossible to see Trump getting over 50% nationally. And it's an uphill climb for him to get over 50% in a handful of key states where the House majority may well be decided: Ohio (45% approval to 50% disapproval), Pennsylvania (42% to 53%), Minnesota (37% to 58%) and California (29% to 65%).

More, *SEE MAP, https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/trump-approval-ratings-gallup/index.html

[Mr. Sparkle]

11. West Virginia is one of the states worst hit by the opioid epidemic.

There must be a correlation between that and their love for trump.

[NCDem777]

12. WV's state motto: Thank you sure may I have another