I just went to 538...

This is May, the deciding population will make their decision in October. They often stick with the status quo right up until the end and then decide to switch. After that, they tend to stay with the new guy for a long time.

Alot of people have to wrap their heads around the fact that they voted for, and supported, an idiot that killed hundreds of thousands. That not only takes time, but it takes having people they know personally get sick, injured, and maybe even die. The Shrub suffered because ultimately soldiers came home without limbs and lives and mental health, and people who knew them began to understand what had been done. It took years, but by the end of his administration, he wasn't even invited to the GOP nominating convention. 4 years later his own brother had to admit to the mistake that had been made.

Add up all the nightly viewers of the three cable networks. Little over 6 million. That's 5 percent of all voters in the general election.

Network nightly news is another 24 million ish. That's 30 million total out of 120+ million who vote in the GE.

That's a quarter of voters. That means 75 percent ish don't watch cable or network nightly news. Plenty of room in there for 10-15 percent of people who simply do not consume much news at all to fall into the 43 percent.

Just a lot of people not paying attention at all.

stations that reach 50mil a week. in 40 statess with 80 senators there are no free easy alternatives for politics while driving working or doing chores - political talk radio is it and 95% of it is a well coordinated protected walmart type monopoly

that includes his hardcore base of dittoheads and then a shitload of people who are too stupid, busy, or apathetic to do their own research and in many cases depend on the hard core (family, neighbors, friends etc) to deliver the bullshit to them with certitude

not long ago the polls showed about 25% of americans get most of their news from radio.

yet the dumbfuck polling cos don't poll for talk radio in trump support even though trump and limbaugh are heavily connected

and in any national emergency those radio stations become even more important

ignoring talk radio continues to be the biggest political mistake in history

It's never gone away.

who a) can't grasp complexities, thus demand simplistic "solutions" and b) wanna stick it to the pointy-haided libruls & byurrocrats & demmuhcrats.

That accounts for pretty much all of 'em.

Trump and his upcoming loss. Or, perhaps he will resign. November is 25 weeks away...

No one knows what it will be like in November...Hopefully we will all see.

don't want to carry that burden with them from now until November. But in November when they step into that booth or stare at their mail-in ballot in private, many will vote for Biden. They'll still be MAGATs, but they'll be MAGATs who voted for Biden.

It's not going to be safe to vote in person, and given the way things are going, we'll have a lot more people dead by then. The economy is going to be FAR from anything resembling normal. People will be clamoring for "normal", for responsible adults with different ideas, since all the ideas we're hearing about now will have been proven disastrous by November.

i think there are a lot of people who "approve" of the president as a matter of course, or at least "approve" of a republican president as a matter of course, and stopped listening to the news, or at least stopped caring what donnie says or does.

i think there are a lot of people who don't realize how horrible he is because they haven't been paying attention.

...when they're the ones who fit the term.

They support him because they are him.

He's pretty much held that support since he stole the election, give or take three or four pounts. Never underestimate the stupidity of many of our fellow citizens.

I always look at the top ten polls and see what movement there is.

"approve" is not the same thing as "will be voting for". there are people that approve now that plan on voting for Biden.

I know someone who hates the way Trump acts, but will be voting for him because of the Supreme Court.

I was like this when Trump was winning the early GOP primaries -->

Then I saw the early polling of him against Clinton for President, and was like this --> and and

with incoming calls they don't recognize. I really do not put much faith in polls conducted by phone any more.

That's the way cults work.. the leader is an ass, but people refuse to believe it..they think he's being unfairly persecuted

For example look at Colorado

there is nothing anything or anyone can do, not even Trump's dismal performance, that can change their minds.

Heads full of concrete. 'Own the libs' foremost in their minds. Even onto their own deaths from starvation or the virus. That is all.

I know some drooling idiots (professional class fucking morons) who waste their time watching that shit. It will take a lot more pain in their personal lives before they question the taste of that Koolaid they have been drinking.

America is fucked up.

Trump hates the same people those groups hate. Remember the LBJ quote?

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you“