Gallup state-by-state polls today: Trump would get 99 Electoral votes

[struggle4progress]

BY JOHN A. TURES
AUGUST 04, 2017 10:00 AM

The Gallup polls showing President Donald Trump’s approval ratings state by state were released this week. And it’s not a good sign for the incumbent, who barely musters a majority in 17 states, totaling 99 Electoral College votes.

Nationwide, only 39 percent of people surveyed approve of the performance of President Donald Trump. As we know, of course, from the 2000 and 2016 elections, you need a majority of Electoral College votes, not the most ballots in the popular vote contest. But the news still isn’t good for President Trump.

Currently, Trump has a 50 percent approval rating or higher in 17 states, according to Gallup Polling. He leads West Virginia with a whopping 60 percent of the vote (his highest nationwide), followed by North Dakota (59 percent), South Dakota (57 percent), Wyoming (56 percent), Montana (56 percent), Alabama (55 percent), Oklahoma (54 percent), Idaho (53 percent), Kansas (53 percent), Arkansas (53 percent), Kentucky (53 percent), Nebraska (52 percent), Alaska (51 percent), Louisiana (51 percent), Utah (50 percent) and South Carolina (50%). That’s good for 99 Electoral College votes ...

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article165336302.html

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Oh how times are a changing. 99 just so much winning.

[riversedge]

2. His cabinet members are doing real damage.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Yes they are and by design.

Watch the shinny object,don't look over there.

[grantcart]

9. Trump is going to see the headline and think "99 out of 100" is great!!!

[TDale313]

4. Shame the US has not vote of no confidence provision.

Or recall option. He'd be gone in a heartbeat.

[edhopper]

5. The fools in WV

still think he is bringing back coal jobs.

[Grammy23]

6. Wonder how much longer it will take for them to find out he fibbed about that?

How much time are they willing to give him to get the mines going again? Has anyone asked these people that question? When they talk about how much he has gotten done, somebody in the media needs to ask them to spell it out. Start pressing them to give details, not just vague talking points.
We're waiting....

[phleshdef]

8. Its not just coal. Thats my home state and its racist as fuck.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. This is what can happen when Pills and Booze does

their thinking. And some whacked out Tent Preacher.

[Jim Lane]

7. Unfortunately, the poll results don't support the headline.

The headline-writer's assumption is that Trump would get the electoral votes of all and only the states where his approval rating is 50 percent or higher. In the actual election, some people who did not approve of Trump voted for him anyway -- some out of party loyalty, some because they disapproved of Clinton even more.

The article notes that Trump and Clinton both have current national approval ratings of 39 percent. That suggests that a rerun of the 2016 matchup would again show the two of them fairly close in the popular vote (i.e., with the difference between them falling within the margin of error of a typical poll). All I'd conclude is that Johnson and Stein would do a little better in the hypothetical rerun than they did last year.

[Awsi Dooger]

11. One of the most inept columns I've ever seen

How on Earth does a positive approval rating align with carrying the state? With nothing else factored. Unbelievable. I always defend the media but this is one case in which an editor should have stepped forward. That should not have been printed, even if it was a guest column and not an article.

Last year Trump in the national exit poll had a 38% favorable number with 60% unfavorable. So essentially not much has changed with him.

Hillary's approval number has dropped. She was 43% favorable 55% unfavorable in that exit poll.

A political science professor wrote that column. Scary beyond description.