Democrats hold double digit lead for 2018 while trump's approval ticks up

[still_one]

While at first blush that seems counter itself, until one looks where that approval came from:

"....... the NBC/WSJ polls finds that Trump's approval rating stands at 43 percent among all Americans — up four points from January.
Fifty-three percent of adults say they disapprove of the president’s job, down from 57 percent two months ago.
The improvement for Trump comes from Republican respondents (who went from 78 percent approve in January to 84 percent this month), white men (52 percent to 59 percent) and independents (33 percent to 45 percent)."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-hold-double-digit-lead-2018-midterm-elections-n857466?cid=eml_nbn_20180318

[global1]

1. How In The Hell Can Trump's Approval.....

possibly go up? It defies reason.

[NurseJackie]

2. If the shift is within the Margin of Error ... it's meaningless.

[still_one]

4. I agree, and the recent elections in Pennslvania and Alabama seem to counter that also

However, as the poll pointed out a large amount of that comes from republicans

[democratisphere]

3. So what are white men and independents looking at or hearing that makes

them approve of drumpf's actions and behavior.

[still_one]

5. I suspect among the caucasian male demographic in this poll, a lot of them are die hard republicans,

but I haven't looked at detail to the breakdown.

As for independents, I wonder if people who have a libertarian mindset call themselves independent, which may account for that

[smirkymonkey]

6. Are these telephone polls? If so, are they all made to land lines?

Just curious if anyone knows. If the answer to the above is yes, that could explain why the numbers skew in favor of the republicans.

[mythology]

8. Yes to telephone, but half of respondents were on cell phones

[dalton99a]

7. Republicans are hardened Trump worshippers - They are loving his shit show