An unwanted record

[struggle4progress]

BY EMILY SWANSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 26, 2017 at 11:41 AM EDT

... Plunging into undesirably uncharted territory, Trump is setting records with his dismally low approval ratings, including the lowest mark ever for a president in his first year. In fact, with four months left in the year, Trump has already spent more time under 40 percent than any other first-year president.

At 34 percent, his current approval rating is worse than President Barack Obama’s ever was.

Trump’s early descent in the polls defies some longstanding patterns about how Americans view their president. Such plunges are often tied to external forces that the president only partially controls, such as a sluggish economy or an all-consuming international crisis. In Trump’s case, the economy is humming and the foreign crises have been kept to a minimum.

Americans also tend to be optimistic about their new leaders, typically cutting them some slack during their early days in office. Not with Trump ...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trumps-low-approval-ratings-set-unwanted-record/

[BigmanPigman]

1. People in the media are going to stop mentioning polls all the time.

This is an unprecedented presidency (that is hard to say) and you can't view it using former standards. They do not apply to our current situation. The fake prez has "a cult of personality". That is how his base is accurately described. They did not elect him based on issues but on his personality and character (or lack of) and his numbers will not drop much below 30% so don't expect it. If you do the math you will see that the number of people who actually did vote for him and compare that with the numbers of his hard core base you will see who we need to focus on. It is the percentage of those who are not his base but voted for him that we need to focus on when we approach the 2018 election and the GOP control of Congress.