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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump's approval rating is above 50% in only 12 states: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/trump-approval-ratings-gallup/index.htmlAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 12:20 PM ET, Tue January 30, 2018
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President Donald Trump is expected to trumpet a unity message in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, an attempt to turn a corner from the divisiveness of his first year in office.
New polling on that first year of Trump shows that the President has a lot of work to do in bringing the country together. There are just 12 states where Trump's job approval rating was above 50% for the entirety of 2017. That pales in comparison to the 41 states where then-President Barack Obama was above 50% approval for his first year on office.
The numbers are reflective of two things:
1. Trump's overall job approval number nationwide was never over 50% in Gallup polling at any point in 2017. Trump's high point was 366 days ago when he was at 45% approval and 47% disapproval. The last time Trump's approval was over 40% in Gallup polling was at the end of May 2017 -- when he was at 41%. Trump averaged the lowest job approval number -- 38% -- of any president ever in his first year in office in Gallup data. At the end of 2009, Obama's approval rating was at 57%.
2. Trump's most loyal voters -- and states -- are staying with him. His job approval was highest in places like West Virginia, North Dakota and Wyoming where he won by huge margins in 2016. (One interesting note: Democratic senators are running for re-election in both West Virginia and North Dakota this fall.) Many of those states are also less populated.
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Donald Trump's approval rating is above 50% in only 12 states: CNN (Original Post)
Stuart G
Jan 2018
OP
It's distressing that he's running at 50% anywhere, since he's so corrupt and a lying disgusting
Honeycombe8
Jan 2018
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. Could we force those states to secede into a new nation of "Trumpland?"
To DUers in those states: Please come join us in Americaland.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)2. Certainly one of the best suggestions I have ever heard...
"Trumpland for them"
"Americaland for us" ............................................I like it, but ain't going to happen...
Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)3. WOHOO Texas is below 40!
panader0
(25,816 posts)4. I clicked the link with trepidation.
I was hoping that AZ was not one of the twelve. Whew.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)5. Eventually all the states will be below 30 percent ....
Trump is worse than a garbage dump.......(my apologies to all garbage, and garbage dumps)
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)6. It's distressing that he's running at 50% anywhere, since he's so corrupt and a lying disgusting
mental case who is unfit for office. Yet, there are some who point their thumbs up and say they think he's doing a pretty good job.
That is very distressing.
doc03
(35,296 posts)7. With the election coming up I think it is time the MSM will
start pumping him up. If he stays on script and doesn't go nuts tonight they will pump him up like
crazy.
C_U_L8R
(44,990 posts)8. It's no coincidence
that Trump is most popular where the IQs are lowest.