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struggle4progress

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2. Approval rating lower than Obama's

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Mon Mar 20, 2017, 05:49 AM

Mar 2017

BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Monday, March 20, 2017, 1:01 AM

... While 37% of Americans approve of the job the President has done since taking office Jan. 20, 58% disapprove. His approval rating stood at 45% last week, poll numbers showed.

The daily poll results are based on telephone interviews with 1,500 people nationwide and has a 3% margin of error.

Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, generally polled approval in the low 50s, but his disapproval ratings were in the mid-40s throughout March 2016, according to Gallup ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/poll-trump-approval-rating-sinks-obama-article-1.3002825

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Majority of Young Americans View Trump as Illegitimate [View all] struggle4progress Mar 2017 OP

Whos confident and whos nervous? struggle4progress Mar 2017 #1

Any economic gains are not Trumps doing. He hasn't done shit yet to have caused that. Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #13

Approval rating lower than Obama's struggle4progress Mar 2017 #2

And, trending down really fast, unprecedented. Trump goes down in history as going down, down, down. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #9

"Any negative polls are fake news," he tweeted in early February. struggle4progress Mar 2017 #3

High Point poll says 55 percent disapprove of Trump struggle4progress Mar 2017 #4

Trump less popular than any other president at this point struggle4progress Mar 2017 #5

So, why didn't they vote? anniebelle Mar 2017 #6

Rapidly the young and eventually the old and older will realize that drumpf has lied and continues democratisphere Mar 2017 #7

He's unqualified and illegitimate Blue_Warrior Mar 2017 #8

Our best hope for the future is in youth Martin Eden Mar 2017 #10

No surprise - the majority of young Americans voted Dem in November ehrnst Mar 2017 #11

This is an example of what went wrong with election Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #12