How can his damn approval be going up??? 43.5. (538 report)

[a kennedy]

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo

[walkingman]

1. Lots of nasty white folks out there.

[Bonx]

11. Yep. It's always those nasty white people.

[walkingman]

17. 95% of the GOP is white, and have little or no empathy and think God put them on the planet

to rule over everyone. Never underestimate the nastiness of white people. I am white and know that there are a lot of good white folks also and even some Republicans but those that belong to the GOP cult are pretty scary folks.

[Esperanto.Mark]

21. I'm white...

and its hard to stomach sometimes

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Lots of angry racists out there who sit in their lounge chairs are a fed a steady diet of Fox.

[cutroot]

3. Bots skew the polls. They are all worthless.

[RainCaster]

4. It's the Love of Bots, they're all for Putin's Puppet

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Polls have a 3% margin of error (n/t)

[Lexee]

6. Since going in it has never hit 50's. Any other President int he 40's would be doing poorly.

Because Trump sits at these numbers, if it goes up a tad we see it as him doing well. He just really moved the goal post where is doing well, is all the other elected officials doing poorly.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Polling mechanics

vary from Company to company. Bottom line,time of day,selected targets,what type of contact with those targets,cell or land line phone,how are the questions worded,is it multiple choice answers,is it open ended questions,is it a simply yes or no.

Never forget,these polls do not just happen free. Someone is paying the freight and you need to look at the origin of any Poll.

Again,it is all about the mechanics of the Poll.

[Grammy23]

22. Thank you for mentioning these factors!

Polls have a margin of error so the numbers may be somewhat fluid. It is easy to get wedded to a particular number...forgetting the margin of error. (And all those other factors you mentioned.)

But make no mistake, tRump doesn’t have great numbers. But in addition to lying to the public, he lies to himself. He listens to the cheers at his rallies and honestly thinks he is loved and beloved. A touch of reality needs to smack him in the face.

[Wellstone ruled]

24. The Orange Anus is in deep trouble.

His so called base is mostly 65 plus voters with a smattering of Nationalist,Corporate Greedsters,and Conspiratorial believers.

When I saw the latest polling,the Public is wakening to the real threat we are facing. Everyone loves to bash the younger folks and their voting habits,but,they seem to have awakened to reality and I see them getting involved in a big way here with every Candidate. The Nevada Dems Digital Operation seems to be Post High School and College Students and they are aggressive in support of their chosen Candidate.

Best part is,they are using the Voter Data from two years ago and are contacting every person on those lists.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. That seems to be mostly in his "zone" for most of his Presidency

Polls fluctuate. I wouldn't be worried unless a bunch of polls start seeing him at or near 50% IMHO.

[bdamomma]

9. his base

are very sick people.

[Brainfodder]

13. Nah, you can't fix stupid more likely?

[not_the_one]

10. They have active, big buy, ad campaigns going on....

meanwhile, from the democrats, crickets. Yet I am constantly seeing pro-turd ads on MSNBC.

The American public are very gullible, and have to be entertained and spoon-fed into thinking for themselves. The party of Putin KNOWS the American public will fall for shit... if it is repeated enough times.

Surely some big bucks, smart and progressive ad agencies could put some smart and TRUE ads together that could beat the pants off of anything they throw out... Put them together, then pitch them to the party. Then the dems just need to be willing to pay for them.

Democrats are known for our reluctance to try to level the playing field. We are too concerned with if THEY (those who are never going to vote for us anyhow...) think we are being mean and nasty. And that has bit us in the ass every time. That is why the democratic party needs a complete and total blood transfusion in the leadership.

As I have said many times, I would vote for the roadkill in the middle of the road, IF it has a D behind it. But we need to move forward, not just tread water.

[ElementaryPenguin]

12. It's not! It's bullshit!

Look at the 2018 election results!

A total repudiation of Trump. This will be much worse, which is why the Russians providing hack help is his only chance!

[Locutusofborg]

14. Its the sympathy effect of impeachment.

President Clinton got his highest ever job approval rating (+73%) the week that he was impeached). https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/20/impeachment.poll/

[maxrandb]

15. It's not! Look at 538... and then take out Rasmussen

Rasmussen has his approval anywhere from 5 to 8 points higher than the other polls. Hell, even they have him with a higher disapprove than approve.

Including ratfuck-mussen adds 2.5% to the overall approval numbers.

The real story is that even with Reich Wing skewed polls, they can't prop him above 43%.

I'm more concerned that Russian Bots are out in force to fuck with DU.

Seems to be an awful lot of "the sky is falling-his numbers are going up" posts around here lately.

Coincidence, I'm sure

[Andy823]

20. Yes and a lot of them are

very low count posters who are new, or some who are low count posters who only seem to show up during election years.

[Johonny]

16. Christmas time. People are busy, generally happy to ignore the * show

[Recursion]

18. Impeachment (nt)

[brooklynite]

19. Markets continue to go up...

...even if they don't like him personally, they like to have a flush 401(k).

[hunter]

23. How is it possible to poll people any more?

Is there anyone left who picks up calls from unknown numbers to answer questions strangers ask them?

[rownesheck]

34. Exactly.

If a number I don't recognize calls my phone, I don't fucking answer. Makes you wonder who is answering these polls. I doubt it's a good representation of the populace.

[scarytomcat]

25. because he is so mistreated dems are being mean to him

polls are off no way is he going up. If he is this country is toast.

[The Wielding Truth]

26. Wall to wall propaganda.

[marlakay]

27. America likes bad boys?

I don’t get it in the same way people stay in abusive relationships.

Just like the relationships they know the person is bad, they know all the reasons to leave but they make excuses to stay.

[Squinch]

28. Advertising. They do it. We don't. As simple as that.

[pansypoo53219]

29. the tvee media is ignoring this "blue dress". they still like the moron for ratings.

[uponit7771]

30. *** Because 538 CONTINUES To Over Weigh Rassmussen !!! ***

[a kennedy]

31. Really??? Thanks for this then.....I honestly thought 538 was a pretty reliable source.....

Explains it then. Thanks.

[uponit7771]

32. rAssMusssen low rated letter grades gets better weighing than a lot of other polls. rAssMussen 48%

... approval skews things a but.

But yeah, Trumps is at 43% which doesn't mean anything ...

Sad that its mostly democrats who are moving his numbers up and down above or below 40% ... look at the numbers

[Faux pas]

33. Because

No Child Left Behind