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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Tue May 23, 2017, 04:15 PM May 2017

How significant is the slide?

By David Lauter

... The percentage who approve of Trump’s job performance is now below 40% in the two major polling averages, done by Real Clear Politics and the Huffington Post. He’s at the lowest level of his presidency so far and far lower than any previous president at this point.

Surveys in the last week range from Gallup’s tracking poll, which shows 37% of Americans approving of Trump’s job performance and 56% disapproving, to a Rasmussen poll of people deemed likely to vote in 2018 that has 44%-56%. Surveys by all the major polling organizations show roughly the same downward trend in Trump’s approval ...

In polling by SurveyMonkey, which collects very large samples that allow detailed analysis, Trump’s support has dropped 10 percentage points since late April among white voters who did not go to college — a group that was key to his victory last fall ...


http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-polls-20170522-htmlstory.html

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How significant is the slide? (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2017 OP
nothing will change until redistricting is done by annabanana May 2017 #1
More white people will need to turn against him before Repubs change their behavior LonePirate May 2017 #2
Here's Business Insider after the election: struggle4progress May 2017 #3
Majority of under $50 thou. income voted Clinton, wealthier went for Trump wishstar May 2017 #4

wishstar

(5,269 posts)
4. Majority of under $50 thou. income voted Clinton, wealthier went for Trump
Tue May 23, 2017, 04:43 PM
May 2017

One reason why Trump budget so ruthlessly attacks programs helping lower income Americans is that they skew Democratic

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