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struggle4progress

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Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:09 AM Mar 2017

Poll: Cabinet and Other Republican Leaders Unpopular Too

Jason Le Miere
Newsweek
20 March 2017

... a poll conducted by the Saint Leo University Polling Institute ... surveyed 1,073 adults between March 3 and March 11 with a margin of error of three percent ...

... Pence’s combined approval rating—those who strongly approve and somewhat approve—was marginally higher than Trump’s, 45.5 percent compared with 44.1 percent ...

... Bannon, a controversial figure from the outset as a result of his time as publisher for Breitbart News, had an approval rating of 36 percent .... Conway .. had an approval rating of 37.2 percent ...

The lowest .. rating .. belonged to .. DeVos. Only 34.5 percent .. approved of the Michigan billionaire, who required an unprecedented tiebreaking vote from Pence to confirm her as education secretary last month ...


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/not-just-trump-poll-says-194853628.html

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Job Approval Rating Sub-50 Percent struggle4progress Mar 2017 #1

struggle4progress

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1. Job Approval Rating Sub-50 Percent
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:19 AM
Mar 2017
... 44.1 percent of respondents in the survey of 1,073 adults said they either strongly approve (23.4 percent) or somewhat approve (20.7 percent) of the job the new president has been doing since taking office on Jan. 20, 2017. The respondents answered the online survey between March 3 and March 11, 2017. The tallies have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points ...

... Pence received a job approval rating in the same range: 45.5 percent overall (22.1 percent strongly approved and 23.4 percent somewhat approved). Fewer respondents disapproved of him as strongly as disapproved of President Trump, however. Overall, 43.4 percent disapprove, with 14.8 percent somewhat disapproving and 28.6 percent strongly disapproving. The percent who could not supply an answer was 11.1.

Meanwhile, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan, also a Republican, was given an overall approval rating of 42.4 percent, with 14.9 percent strongly approving of his work and 27.5 percent somewhat approving. The combined disapproval rate for Ryan was 45 percent, with 17.7 percent somewhat disapproving and 27.3 percent strongly disapproving. Those who didn’t know how to answer were 12.6 percent ...


http://polls.saintleo.edu/president-trump-job-approval-rating-sub-50-percent/

Support for the troops and the military 64.1 - 27.8 = +36.3%
Revamping Obamacare / Affordable Care Act 46.7 - 47.3 = -0.6%
Protecting the United States from terrorism 54.1 - 39.8 = +14.3%
Deciding to move ahead with the XL Pipeline 43.5 - 47.1 = -3.6%
His Cabinet appointments 40.5 - 51.9 = -11.4%
Immigration decisions 44 - 51.8 = -7.8%
Relations with other nations 41.8 - 51.3 = -10.5%
Jobs and the economy 53.8 - 36.9 = +16.9
Keeping his campaign promises 52.1 - 39 = +13.1%
Handling of the media 35.4 - 59.6 = -24.2%
Addressing racial/ethnic divisions in the nation 39.9 - 53.2 = -13.3%
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