Even desperate Fox News can't find much good polling news for Trump

[highplainsdem]

Though what little they could find -- some optimism on the economy, which people don't by and large give Trump credit for -- they put in their misleading headline, "Fox News Poll: A divided, yet optimistic country awaits Trump":

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/19/fox-news-poll-divided-yet-optimistic-country-awaits-trump.html

First, only one-third of voters describe the national mood as “we’re all in this together.” Nearly twice as many feel like it’s everyone for themselves. And half say they’re tired of politics and “want it to go away.”

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Still, two-thirds feel optimistic about the economy (66 percent). In a rare instance of unity, majorities of independents (61 percent), Democrats (64 percent), and Republicans (72 percent) share this sunny outlook.
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Who do voters credit for the recent rise in the stock market? More say Trump (23 percent) than outgoing President Obama (13 percent), but a 56-percent majority credits regular market cycles. Republicans (47 percent) are far more likely to credit Trump than Democrats are to credit Obama (26 percent).

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By a 50-40 percent margin, voters say Trump’s doing a bad job of listening to people like them, and a 54-percent majority disapproves of how he’s handling the presidential transition. Thirty-seven percent approves, with the most enthusiasm coming from Republicans (73 percent), white evangelical Christians (64 percent), conservatives (63 percent), and whites without a college degree (52 percent).

Views on Trump as a person are similar, as 42 percent of voters have a favorable opinion (21 percent strongly), and 55 percent unfavorable (44 percent strongly). That’s a net negative of 13 points.

Note: MORE THAN TWICE as many people have a strongly unfavorable view of Trump as have a strongly favorable view of him, 44% to 21%.

His two immediate predecessors had more appeal when they began their terms. When Barack Obama took office in January 2009, his rating was a net positive of 61 points (76 percent favorable, 15 percent unfavorable). George W. Bush had a net positive of 27 in January 2001 (58 percent favorable, 31 percent unfavorable).

So...will Trump condemn Fox as "fake news" for these poll findings?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "Divided yet optimistic"?

Who's optimistic? I feel like I'm sitting in a canoe in raging rapids with no paddle, watching helplessly as I float nearer and nearer to the edge of the waterfall.

[gratuitous]

4. And didn't "divided" used to be worse than a hundred Hitlers?

But that was when they were blaming all the divisiveness exclusively on that horrid Barack Obama, who insisted on acting like a president just because he got the most votes.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Stock market gains were

purely Technical,with a rotation out of 10 year Bonds to common Stocks. But,the three Business Channels have to kiss Trumps ass after all they helped to elect this Slug.

[napi21]

3. God forbid they give Obama credit for ANYTHING! If the market had gone to shI*t you know

they'd sure blame him.