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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe talking heads on CNN were saying Impeachment has boosted Trump's ratings
Im not buying it. Hopefully there will be more polling besides Gallup.
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The talking heads on CNN were saying Impeachment has boosted Trump's ratings (Original Post)
redstateblues
Feb 2020
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Yeah, that's bullshit. Over half the country wants him thrown out of office without
coti
Feb 2020
#1
Two horses. They are basing this on the Gallup poll and ignoring his ratings last night.
underpants
Feb 2020
#4
coti
(4,625 posts)1. Yeah, that's bullshit. Over half the country wants him thrown out of office without
finishing the term.
budkin
(6,849 posts)2. Total bullshit
Not remotely true.
apcalc
(4,526 posts)3. Not a chance in hell true imo
underpants
(195,568 posts)4. Two horses. They are basing this on the Gallup poll and ignoring his ratings last night.
I heard a similar comment about his polling on NPR.
16 M viewers last night. Down 21% from last year.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,516 posts)5. What is CNN?!?
Locutusofborg
(576 posts)6. There already is more pollng
Reuters/Ipsos = 42%
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/reuters-ipsos-data-core-political-2020-02-05
The Economist = 44%
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/73jqd6u5mv/econTabReport.pdf
And the latest Gallup Poll over-sampled Republicans and Republican leaning independents. The Gallup sample had 443 Democrats and Democratic leaning independents and 527 Republicans and Republican leaning independents.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)7. Thanks. I'll get down off the ledge
tavernier
(14,371 posts)8. I go back to the old adage...
We get the government we deserve.
I think we have woken up to this prophesy.
I guess well see.
Joinfortmill
(20,509 posts)9. CNN mostly sucks
crickets
(26,168 posts)10. Perhaps the talking heads at CNN are trying to get back in his good graces.
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/02/04/white-house-excludes-cnn-from-trumps-briefing-with-media/
If CNN had any sense they would embrace their position and make hay with it rather than sucking up. If the rest of news media had any sense they would join CNN in standing against Trump* as well, but...
If CNN had any sense they would embrace their position and make hay with it rather than sucking up. If the rest of news media had any sense they would join CNN in standing against Trump* as well, but...
JCMach1
(29,141 posts)11. No, its the Xenophobic quarantine
