This new poll has all kinds of bad news for Donald Trump

[riversedge]

umm... I did not hear anything on the news about this!!



This new poll has all kinds of bad news for Donald Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/10/this-new-poll-has-all-kinds-of-bad-news-for-donald-trump/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.60b901cc7e33

By Aaron Blake January 10 at 3:13 PM


......................... Even then, though, he clearly remained the most unpopular president-elect in modern history. Again, that was the honeymoon.

And now it’s over.

A new poll from Quinnipiac University suggests that Trump has reverted to his pre-election standing, with Americans having major concerns about his temperament and the direction in which his presidency will lead the country. Trump’s continued controversies seem to have put him right back where he was before he won the election.

Quinnipiac is the first high-quality pollster to poll on Trump twice since the election. And while its poll in late November showed his favorable rating rising from 34 percent to 44 percent, that number has dropped back to 37 percent, which is about where it stood for much of the campaign. That’s tied for Trump’s worst favorable rating in a poll since his election. And a majority — 51 percent — now have an unfavorable view of him.


Likewise, the Quinnipiac poll shows a drop in confidence in Trump across the board. Although 59 percent were optimistic about the next four years under Trump in November, today that number is 52 percent. While 41 percent thought he would be a better leader than President Obama, it’s now 34 percent. While 52 percent thought he would help the nation's economy, it’s now 47 percent. While 40 percent thought his policies would help their personal financial situation, it’s now 27 percent. While 53 percent thought he’d take the country in the right direction, it’s now 45 percent.

You get the idea. There are similar drops in views of his honesty (42 percent to 39 percent), his leadership skills (56 percent to 49 percent), his compassion for average Americans (51 percent to 44 percent), his levelheadedness (38 percent to 33 percent) and his ability to unite the country (47 percent to 40 percent).


And then it gets worse. Toward the bottom,................

[WhiteTara]

1. Wall Street concurs and has dropped

on results from his "presser"

[riversedge]

2. Dont let be fooled. Trump is not popular. People do care about this stuff. Youre not alone and you

Stay strong folks. Keep calling your Senators and Reps--of all strips-do not let up.


Elliott Lusztig Retweeted
Matthew Yglesias ‏@mattyglesias 12h12 hours ago

Don’t let be fooled. Trump is not popular. People do care about this stuff. You’re not alone and you’re not insane. https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us01102017_Utb35mky.pdf/ …


:large

[Nay]

3. So what? He's still going to be president. And he doesn't give a damn

about what we losers think. Plus, you can bet the Pubs will go right along with him as long as he's happy to sign most of their RW nutjob theocratic bullshit bills and/or bribe them sufficiently. We're toast for 4 years. I really don't know what can be done to mitigate the damage.

[leftynyc]

5. People can get off their asses

Mobilize and get out the fucking vote in 2018 and take away his gop controlled congress. The Democratic turnout for midterms is disgusting.

[Nay]

13. Agreed the Dem turnout is disgusting. The 'independent' and 'don't give a shit'

turnout is also disgusting.

As far as getting these people off their asses, I can't come up with anything. I WOULD like the Dems to target the Dem-leaning areas that, for example, saw HALF their polling places removed, which deprived thousands of Dems of their ability to vote. Those voters WANTED to vote and couldn't.

[leftynyc]

15. People have to start looking

into absentee ballots. Whatever gets their vote in. And get their friends to register and do the same. And get their friends to do the same. There are more of us and we shouldn't be losing and wouldn't be if everyone got off their asses and made sure they voted.

[Nay]

29. Oh, I agree. But you do see that this is just another way to easily block a voter,

don't you? Here in VA they have absentee ballots. You have to present yourself at the county courthouse, prove you are you with a specified ID, tell them the reason you won't be in town to vote, and then they will issue you an absentee ballot that must reach their office before a certain day.

I can see plenty of potential for tripping people up here. Maybe the office all of a sudden doesn't have enough ballots to pass out. Lots of people have transportation problems and can't get to the office. Etc.

But you are correct in that people really need to get off their asses -- I can only hope that the horror show that is the Trump presidency will do the job. We certainly can't seem to.

[leftynyc]

32. You can blame voting regulations

until you're blue in the face. Just look at the numbers that don't vote in midterms from our side. It's a fucking embarrassment and has nothing to do with voter ID as they manage to vote in Presidential elections.

[Hortensis]

7. NO. He has maybe 35% tops strong deluded and

hopeful, about what W had after about 6 years of disastrous terms (all but about 12% finally disowned him close to the end). And that's before Trump's even sworn in and starts failing, before he starts getting in some big battles with congress, the courts, and business, and before the pubs finally learn what the anti-government extremists around him are planning. Going to be some big shocks in pub-land.

[Eleanors38]

12. Yes, and considering the "opposition," it was enough for a trump win.

[Hortensis]

16. This is an inappropriate comment for this forum

and for this thread, which is about sagging conservative confidence in Trump SINCE the election. Not for trashing Democrats.

Others, note that perhaps a third of conservatives would support their chosen leader no matter what to the very end---as long as they saw him as a strong, winning leader. W's ultimate unprecedented loss of support wasn't because he destroyed America's status on the planet, his own status as an international war criminal, or because he betrayed and lied to them, it was because he was a loser as a leader and they hated that. And now their imaginary strong-man Trump takes his place at the head of their columns...

[Eleanors38]

18. "This is" an ENTIRELY appropriate thread. DU needs healthy (re: realistic) discussion.

A party expecting to win when the other side is bompin' 'round the upper-thirties of eligible voters strikes me as fine-tuning a policy of passive aggression beyond all reason. And speculating on why over 40% of eligible voters don't vote invites a sober look into the mirror.

If there is yet another DU rule about alertable posts, please inform.

[Hortensis]

20. Dishonest deflection to THREAD. Bashing Hillary and the

party that chose her so hopefully and still wants her for president is very much not acceptable.

[Eleanors38]

21. Is this a hideable offense? I'm asking you or anyone. Thanks.

On the question of "dishonesty," there is NO comment at all about Hillary, and the Party must explain what it can do which is much better. All this seems appropriate in GD.

[Nay]

14. Certainly we're in for some shocks, but I long ago lost faith that Pub voters

even know what is going on. Or they actually think it's A-OK. Or they don't care, as long as those brown people don't get anything. We' ll see. After we suffer greatly.

[Hortensis]

17. I agree in general, although only some are driven by racism.

Boy, do they not know what's going on.

But I was speaking of the shocks those A-OKs and those authoritarians who imagine Strong, Reaganish Trump will take care of them (hard to imagine, isn't it!) have coming. Conservatives do not handle uncertainty and fear well, and certainly not change, of which they are going to get plenty.

Of course they will blame us, but with any luck they will turn on their leaders, Trump and the ones hiding in the shadows. Fingers crossed. God knows I was wrong when I hoped they would see Trump as the bottom of the hole and say no. Now I know they don't have one. Only a crash will stop their fall.

[nolabear]

27. I care. We can fight. We can sew seeds that will flower in four years. We can fight for seats in two

[Jacob Boehme]

4. Hey there you 63 million uninformed tRump voters....

You want this idiot bad....
You're going to get this idiot bad....

(Unfortunately, the rest of us are going to be dragged along kicking and screaming.)

[treestar]

6. They are starting to figure it out

too late.

[ffr]

8. Only because they no longer have the icon of HRC to throw stuff at.

Without Fox telling them one specific person to air their hatred upon, they're lost.

Now what?

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[Eleanors38]

19. Good point.

[Nay]

30. An excellent point, which exemplifies the irrational, emotional, "two-minute hate" nature

of the Republican Party's propaganda campaign. It's very hard to overcome this sort of irrational spray over the airwaves with logic and thoughtfulness.

[denbot]

10. Uh-oh, GW Bush's numbers polled down to 51% by Aug 2011

That didn't workout to well for us..

[coco22]

11. Because they think they are going to bring the country together united...

behind this POS I saw Cohen on CNN saying we don't need this investigation because we need to come together behind pee,pee..

[Vinca]

22. They poll "levelheadedness??" ROFL. The guy's a psycho for heaven's sake.

[riversedge]

23. Lawrance, msnbc reporting on this. Donald lowest Rating of ANY president EVER (per poll). He said

on any other week, this poll would be widespread. Media too busy this week it seems.

[Dem2]

24. Lawrence is currently ripping the Oranganus using this poll

Loving it - most hated ever.

[tblue37]

25. This one is telling:

While 40 percent thought his policies would help their personal financial situation, it’s now 27 percent.

[Takket]

26. how can 33% of people say he is levelheaded?

Even the Trumpettes don't say he is levelheaded! That's why they voted for him!!!!!!!!!!!

[Calista241]

28. The problem is Trump is going to focus his trade policies on states

That he won, that have Dem Senators up for reelection in 2018. It's going to be almost impossible for us to win the house or Senate in 2018. Our first realistic chance for change is 2020.

[AgadorSparticus]

31. Not surprising that his #s are tanking get during a honeymoon phase.

What IS surprising is that there are still THAT many people in the USA that thinks he is honest, trustworthy, compassionate, and level-headed.

[myrna minx]

33. He'll always have the approval of his crazy death cult members.

The crazy, unhinged, tea bag, alternative reality breitbart squad runs around 40% of the population. That seeks to be all the support he has right now.

[riversedge]

34. Yes, there will always be those deplorable fans who hang on every word Trump utters!