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What is the floor on Trump's approval: I say 29% (Original Post) adigal Apr 2017 OP
15%... k8conant Apr 2017 #1
That would be great!!!!! Nt adigal Apr 2017 #21
26 lies Apr 2017 #2
Bush II left office with 22 percent. mn9driver Apr 2017 #3
+1 n/t JustAnotherGen Apr 2017 #9
15 Jonny Appleseed Apr 2017 #4
Well done! JustAnotherGen Apr 2017 #10
30% Dawson Leery Apr 2017 #5
I think 20%. These would be the inflexible, swaggering, authoritarians delisen Apr 2017 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author TEB Apr 2017 #7
Talking to my wife TEB Apr 2017 #8
20-25% the same number that believe President Obama is a Muslim, and not an American still_one Apr 2017 #11
I'm rooting for 29 voteearlyvoteoften Apr 2017 #12
Close. 28% Kablooie Apr 2017 #13
Somewhere around 25% Spider Jerusalem Apr 2017 #14
23% Fozzledick Apr 2017 #15
7% if the pee tape leaks Generic Brad Apr 2017 #16
27%. muriel_volestrangler Apr 2017 #17
W got down to 27% at one point, didn't he? Maybe Trump can go there, too. nt tblue37 Apr 2017 #18
17% uponit7771 Apr 2017 #19
I was just about to say even his commited supporters could fall away if the FBI find solid evidence Kentonio Apr 2017 #20

Dawson Leery

(19,568 posts)
5. 30%
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 07:47 PM
Apr 2017

Could be as high as 33%. The far right is polarized to say the least.
Bush once fell to 24% for a short time. Surprising if Donnie falls that low.

delisen

(7,366 posts)
6. I think 20%. These would be the inflexible, swaggering, authoritarians
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 07:48 PM
Apr 2017

I think Jesus said that the inflexible, swaggering, authoritarians are always with us but that if we focus on the needs of the poor we can overcome.

Response to adigal (Original post)

TEB

(15,651 posts)
8. Talking to my wife
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 07:51 PM
Apr 2017

She thinks be mid 20% she had valid point. That there are trump supporters that are hardcore in there blind allegiance to hair feuhrer.

Kablooie

(19,107 posts)
13. Close. 28%
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 08:41 PM
Apr 2017

During the Bush years there were many times where polls dropped to their very bottom and it almost never went below 28%

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
14. Somewhere around 25%
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 09:08 PM
Apr 2017

Nixon hit 24% just before he resigned; mid-20's or so seems to be the floor.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,205 posts)
17. 27%.
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 04:31 AM
Apr 2017
John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is --

Tyrone: 27%.

John: ... you said that immmediately, and with some authority.

Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That's crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.

John: Objectively crazy or crazy vis-a-vis my own inertial reference frame for rational behaviour? I mean, are you creating the Theory of Special Crazification or General Crazification?

Tyrone: Hadn't thought about it. Let's split the difference. Half just have worldviews which lead them to disagree with what you consider rationality even though they arrive at their positions through rational means, and the other half are the core of the Crazification -- either genuinely crazy; or so woefully misinformed about how the world works, the bases for their decision making is so flawed they may as well be crazy.
...
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.co.uk/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html

The Crazification Factor is now a much-quoted baseline for insane support of Republicans, however wrong or evil they are: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crazification_factor
 

Kentonio

(4,377 posts)
20. I was just about to say even his commited supporters could fall away if the FBI find solid evidence
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 05:29 AM
Apr 2017

Then I checked back, and apparently Nixon still had 24% approval when he resigned..

*sigh*

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