Are Trumps Poll Numbers Ticking Up?

[struggle4progress]

By JOSH MARSHALL
Published SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 11:55 AM

... If we go by Gallup .. he does seem to have ticked up a bit ...

What does this mean? Probably not that much ... The first thing to remember is that these are .. very small differences. At the extremes it’s four percentage points between a low of 34% approval and a high of 38% approval. That’s basically just bouncing around within the margin of error ...

... it’s .. likely .. a small improvement in public approval tied to seeing .. ‘caregiving President during natural disaster’ ... We remember all the moments of his praising the big turnouts at shelters or saying how everything was going great. But it’s Trump. The bar is very low ...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-trumps-poll-numbers-ticking-up

[LisaM]

1. It's just because he hasn't had a recent spectacular gaffe.

Yes, the bar has been lowered. Though, IIRC, Bush got away with this too - any hints of semi-normalcy on his part were rewarded with big poll bumps. "See! He's not so bad!"

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. This tells us we are too stupid to survive, and we wont.

But people are sick of hearing me say that, so I will stop for a while.

(even if you impeach trump and jail Pence, guess what happens next) nah, we had our chance

[struggle4progress]

3. Feel free to feel too stupid to survive if you insist, but I will push a different narrative

[Grammy23]

4. Not to worry. He has been acting the part of JackAss in Chief

at the UN. (Typecast) So he will remind us again what an embarrassment he is. Buffoonery is his game. Just give it a few hours to get out to the public how terrible his performance was and those numbers will start to dip again. He can't get out of his own way so if by some chance he has a good week, he will screw it up. Count on it.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Eventually, there's no where to go but up... n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Yeah, he's ticked up a tad bit.

That's why I posted we need to be wary about working with him lest we help normalize him and in the process make him more popular, even if it's only a little bit more popular.

[bearsfootball516]

7. He numbers tend to tick up when he stays quiet

Most of the news over the past couple weeks has been centered around Irma/Maria and now the ACA repeal attempt. His name has been out of the headlines for the most part, which is good for his poll numbers.

[standingtall]

8. Don't worry they will be going down again shortly

sense he has just started trying to take healthcare away from people again.