As white men flee, Trumps approval rating dips again

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/as-white-men-flee-trumps-approval-rating-dips-again/

Newsweek

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Some key supporters have begun to migrate away from Trump, notably Republicans, independents and white men. Trump's approval among Republicans dropped to just 74 percent, a 14-percentage-point tumble from last month, according to IBD/TIPP. His approval among independents fell 11 percentage points to 29 percent. Among white men, one of Trump's strongest demographic bases, his approval rating fell from 58 percent to 49 percent.

A Quinnipiac poll released this week found similar results to those of the IBD/TIPP survey. It found that overall, just 35 percent of voters approved of Trump's job performance. The poll also noted that a majority of men and a plurality of white voters disapproved of the president.

A set of high-profile failures and controversies have affected how people view the president's job performance. The Trump-backed American Health Care Act failed before it could get off the ground, although a new version of an Obamacare replacement may be on the horizon. There's also the ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign's potential cooperation with Russia in its alleged efforts to get the Republican nominee elected over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

"As his ambitious agenda encounters some obstacles in Congress, President Trump's approval ratings have declined," said Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica and director of the IBD/TIPP poll in a statement. "The media's persistently negative coverage of President Trump, especially regarding the ongoing Russian investigation, has also taken a toll on his approval numbers."


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. What I wonder is when Paul Ryan and Pence and team take

our Social Security, Medicare, ACA, etc., and they are planning on doing all that and soon, will he lose more support?

[BainsBane]

2. 49% among white men

Yet he's still at 74% among Republicans.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. That Seems About Right BB

Figure a third of people are R's. 50% are men and guess 80% approve. We're already at 40% R's. But that now accounts for 13.3% of everybody, which would be nearly 40% of the overall approval
On the bright side, some will flip and Independents will bail
We'll be at 30 soon

[BainsBane]

6. Thanks

Math isn't my strong suit.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Not Doing Science Here Myself

Back of the envelope stuff but the rough numbers seem to make sense

[Achilleaze]

3. You mean even some republicans get tired of the lies & treason?

Wake up republicans. The hour it has gotten late.

[uponit7771]

4. +1

[Warpy]

10. More like America aint great yet

My best guess says they thought he'd be a new broom, sweeping out all the dirt and starting over, something that isn't working too well for him because nobody wants to work for an ignorant asshole who is determined to fuck this country over in order to make another country great. You know, Russia, although they haven't thought that far in advance.

They expected immediate results like having to pay no taxes and having great insurance that didn't cost anything. That failed to materialize and now they realize that they're even on the hook to pay for that stupid ass wall that won't work.

I think he'll end up like Stupid did, with only the hateful right wing Christians still supporting him. That's where I hear most of what he's got left.

[UTUSN]

7. It's always the fault of "the negative COVERAGE" instead of DRUMPF's negative activities.

[Foamfollower]

8. We're getting to midterm wave territory

Let's keep the pressure on the douchebag.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. A key indicator of the incumbent party being swept out in the midterms is same party approval . . .

. . . below 85%. With GOPee approval in the 70's - ten points below the threshold - its not looking good for the right wankers.

[doc03]

12. I don't know maybe it is just coincedence but the last few times at the gym

I notice nobody is watching Fox. We have a area where each machine has its own TV set, a coupled months ago
if you looked around at what people were watching 4 out of 5 TVs were on Fox. Today I could see 10 TVs including
mine from where I was and not one had Fox on. Last week I saw 1 TV out of 10 on Fox. Now there are several TVs scattered
around the building that the Teabagger manager puts on Fox every morning. I notice people are asking
to have the channel changed on them, today I notice only one was tuned to Fox when I left this morning.
This is in West Virginia, I think people are slowly catching on to the fact they were played.

[applegrove]

13. That is really good news.