Trump Starts In The Hole As U.S. Voters Disapprove, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; ...

[DonViejo]

Source: Quinnipiac University Poll

Trump Starts In The Hole As U.S. Voters Disapprove, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Reagan, Obama Are Best Presidents In 70 Years

President Donald Trump begins his term with a negative 36 - 44 percent job approval rating from American voters, including a negative 33 - 50 percent rating from women, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. Another 19 percent are undecided.

President Barack Obama scored a positive 59 - 25 percent approval rating in his first post- inaugural poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University on March 4, 2009.

There are party, gender, age and racial gaps in President Trump's approval rating:

Republicans approve 81 - 3 percent, while Democrats disapprove 77 - 4 percent and independent voters disapprove 45 - 35 percent;
Men approve 41 - 38 percent, as women disapprove 50 - 33 percent;
Voters 18 to 34 years old disapprove 51 - 26 percent and voters 35 to 49 years old disapprove 53 - 30 percent, but voters 50 to 64 years old approve 47 - 33 percent and voters over 65 are divided 41 - 41 percent;
White voters approve by a narrow 43 - 40 percent, while non-white voters disapprove 55 - 20 percent.

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Read more: https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2420

[titaniumsalute]

1. OK the internals are weird

All age demos disapprove except the age category 50-64. These people are the closest to retirement age (Social Security and Medicare) but they seem OK with Drumpf?

[Dopers_Greed]

3. Boomers

Can't reason with them.

[titaniumsalute]

4. Partially boomers

The older end of boomers fall into the 65 to 71 year old age range.

Why are boomers for Trump? They came from the 60's. My folks are both 69 and are big Dems.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. Not this boomer, or any boomer I know

However my 80 year old stepmother, who lives solely on SS, was for Trump. She didn't like some of the things he said, "but we need a change".

Boomers have only been turning 65 for 5 years. They do not make up the bulk of the senior population. It's more the "Silent Generation" who were children during the Great Depression, too young to serve in WWII, but too old, for the most part, to serve in Vietnam.

[LanternWaste]

9. Your unsupported premise appears unreasonable. Ironic, no?

Your unsupported premise appears unreasonable. Ironic, no?

However, if you get it printed on a trendy t-shirt, your alternative fact may indeed, be embraced by the millennial crowd (six of one, half a dozen of the other, you see...).

[Dopers_Greed]

13. Guess I should've added the "sarcasm" tag

I was simply riffing on the constant derision that millennials get from Dumpf supporters

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Feel better now?

[NewJeffCT]

5. the elderly tend to skew more conservative

almost always have - which is why Republicans do better in the midterms, as older people are more likely to turn out than the younger, more liberal crowd.

Most threats to Social Security have resulted in pretty hefty consequences - Bush just mentioned privatizing SS after he "won" his election in 2004 and the GOP got hit hard in the 2006 midterms. Granted, the iraq war quagmire also played a part, but that was the only time I heard about big changes to social security.

[titaniumsalute]

6. Yes but the 65+ part of the internal has approval 41-41

That is why this is odd. It was really mostly the boomers who gave him approval. Not even the older 65+ crowd.

[DownriverDem]

11. Apologies

The Hippies in that group do not support Trump.

[charliea]

7. Glad to be an outlier

My wife and I are in that age range, as are most of the folk we know. None of them support the Orange disaster.

[titaniumsalute]

2. Oh and a Twitter meltdown in 3...2...1...

[byronius]

8. I'm apparently a member of the Stupidest Generation Ever.

56. Good Lord. Apparently my peers are as fucking dumb as it gets.

[DownriverDem]

12. Could it be

Many in that age group came of age with Reagan. They are true repubs and will never change.

[DownriverDem]

10. Seeing these numbers

How did HRC lose? If we had stuck together, we would be smiling big time right now.

[forjusticethunders]

16. Poor turnout + voter suppression.

[NewJeffCT]

14. My prediction

by this time next year, his approval rating will be in the mid to upper 20s approval. That will be when I start to worry about a huge terror attack in the US - a false flag, or just one allowed through incompetence. If that happens, the media will tell us we all need to rally around the flag and let Trumpenfuhrer nuke the middle east

[MountCleaners]

18. Way to go, Generation X!

We remember Nixon.