Trump's popularity is slipping in rural America: poll

[Sunlei]

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Source: reuters

(Reuters) - Outside the Morgan County fair in McConnelsville, in a rural swath of Ohio that fervently backed U.S. President Donald Trump in last year’s election, ticket seller John Wilson quietly counts off a handful of disappointments with the man he helped elect.

The 70-year-old retired banker said he is unhappy with infighting and turnover in the White House. He does not like Trump’s penchant for traveling to his personal golf resorts. He wishes the president would do more to fix the healthcare system, and he worries that Trump might back down from his promise to force illegal immigrants out of the country.

According to the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll, the Republican president’s popularity is eroding in small towns and rural communities where 15 percent of the country’s population lives. The poll of more than 15,000 adults in “non-metro” areas shows that they are now as likely to disapprove of Trump as they are to approve of him.

“There should be some sort of compromise between a free flow of people over the border and something that’s more controlled,” said Drew Carlson, 19, of Warrensburg, Missouri, who took the poll. But Trump’s “constant fixation on deportation is a little bit unsettling to me.”




Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ruralamerica-poll/trumps-popularity-is-slipping-in-rural-america-poll-idUSKBN1CE162

[Iliyah]

1. Wait until t-rump take away medicaid and medicare, food stamps

government assistance and SS, hud, et al., and raise their taxes and no jobs. Unfortunately that hurts us too.

[Zambero]

2. Telling

They're not opposing Trump's "agenda" per se or questioning his fitness for office. They're upset that promised shit's not getting done. This set of circumstances tends not to push die hard righties more toward the center, but rather away from the mainstream and further toward radicalism. No one realizes this better than Steve Bannon. Hopefully his envisioned field of Claude Akins & Sharron Angle clones will go down to defeat in the same manner.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. They ain't seen nothin' yet.

He'll cast them aside like yesterdays leftovers.

[DFW]

4. If only I could scream loudly enough from the highest mountain top

WTF DID YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU WERE VOTING FOR???????????

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Not LBN. Duplicate of LBN story on Home page.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141884906

You are advised to look first to avoid having threads locked. That's what the stop sign is for that you see when you post.

[bitterross]

6. The retired 70-year-old is worried about immigrants - total racism

I can't think of any good reason why a 70 year-old would be worried about immigrants if it weren't about the racism.

[vkkv]

7. DUPLICATE POST - Positive news, but still not keeping within the rules st DU

Please delete.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Locking - duplicate thread

of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141884906 . Please continue discussion there. Thanks.