Trump Claims He Has Higher Republican Poll Numbers Than Lincoln And Reagan

[appalachiablue]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: AOL

President Trump has claimed to have higher poll numbers than popular Republican figures Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.

He tweeted Sunday morning: “Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. There must be something wrong, please recheck that poll!”

Link to tweet

, more...


Read more: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/07/29/trump-claims-he-has-higher-republican-poll-numbers-than-lincoln-and-reagan/23491752/

---

Gallup points out in its own analysis: “Throughout his term, Trump’s job approval ratings have ranked well below those of other presidents at similar points in their presidencies.” There was no approval polling in Lincoln's era; presidential polling didn't start until Pres. Truman.

[sakabatou]

1. Trump lied? Hell's still hot then

[minoan]

2. I see he isn't talking about his overall approval rating

Hovering around 38%.

[bearsfootball516]

6. Depends what all you're looking at.

FiveThirtyEight has the average at 41.4.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

Of course, that includes polls like Rasmussen, which are notoriously pro-Republican.

[Stuart G]

3. Just 3 more words.......Trump is nuts!!!

[RockRaven]

4. My poll numbers, written on this paper, are higher than the numbers on that blank paper over there

Ummm... Okay. Good job.

[appalachiablue]

5. History matters; as Abe well knew.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/29/1784355/-Trump-Claims-The-Highest-Poll-Numbers-Since-Abraham-Lincoln-When-Approval-Polling-Didn-t-Exist

[polmaven]

7. He probably does!!

The highest disapproval numbers in history

[Botany]

8. Lots of polling during Lincoln's Presidency

The problem was that they were running old IBM main frame computers* and everybody
had land lines then so the troops fighting in the civil war were not accurately sampled.


"Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln .."


*

[3Hotdogs]

9. He means contemporary. A the time of his presidency, Lincoln's approval rating was dismal.

That was until he hired U.S. Grant.


So, the Orange Skidmark technically may be right.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Locking - duplicate thread

of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142121231 (which has this tweet, as well as another mentioned in its title). Please continue discussion there. Thanks.