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Trump’s approval ratings are bad news for Democrats
The Washington Post ^ | September 24, 2019 | Henry Olsen

Posted on 09/24/2019 6:01:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Something big happened to President Trump this week, and it’s not the Ukraine scandal. His job approval ratings have returned to where they were before his big August slump — and that’s bad news for the Democrats.

Trump clearly had a terrible late summer. Starting with his tweet that the four progressive Democratic House members who call themselves “the Squad” should “go back” to the countries they purportedly were from (only one of the four, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, is an immigrant), Trump’s job approval ratings declined significantly. From a pre-tweet high of 45.1 percent in the RealClearPolitics average on July 8, Trump’s ratings dropped more than two points before bottoming out at 42.7 percent earlier this month. That’s a terrible rating for a president barely more than a year out from reelection.

But now that Congress has returned and he’s no longer engaged in a battle with Democratic women of color, his ratings are up. They sit at 45.3 percent as of Tuesday afternoon, thanks to a recent Emerson Poll putting Trump’s approval rating at 48 percent, a 2½-year high for Trump. He’s still lower than a president should be if he wants to be reelected, but he’s on the way back.

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: 2020election; declassification; democrats; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; fakenews; fbi; fisa; impeachment; jamescomey; justicedemocrats; lisapage; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; peterstrzok; polls; presstitutes; robertmueller; saikatchakrabarti; smearmachine; subhaschandrabose; svengali; tds; trump; washingtoncompost; witchhunt
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Lots of Trump supporters won't answer their questions, therefore polls are skewed.
1 posted on 09/24/2019 6:01:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Interesting Times

I got several calls from polling firms about presidential politics. When they asked my race and I said white, they hung up, usually without any thanks for at least answering the phone. I was tempted to tell them Black or Asian to see what happened, but never did.


2 posted on 09/24/2019 6:05:44 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Democrats platform of “Yes, we’re going to take your guns,” won’t help them.


3 posted on 09/24/2019 6:06:34 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This really should have been posted to show in the sidebar.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (53%)
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3780863/posts


4 posted on 09/24/2019 6:08:16 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Inyo-Mono

Last week I told a Trump hater that the hate and insanity of the Democrats was going to get DJT re-elected. He didn’t respond.


5 posted on 09/24/2019 6:10:16 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
his tweet that the four progressive Democratic House members who call themselves “the Squad” should “go back” to the countries they purportedly were from

Stupid WaPoo. That tweet was his high point. Stuff like that is why America loves that guy.

Go get 'em Trump!

6 posted on 09/24/2019 6:11:31 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

7 posted on 09/24/2019 6:14:28 PM PDT by bitt (Trump stole pancakes from his distant cousin. Huh.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do you think the gungrabbing babykillers are trying so hard to “IMPEE FOTY-FIVE”


8 posted on 09/24/2019 6:16:31 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does Pelosi get an approval rating?


9 posted on 09/24/2019 6:17:21 PM PDT by Libloather (CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE!)
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To: MuttTheHoople

To stay out of prisonm


10 posted on 09/24/2019 6:20:35 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And that is why the Dems have to impeach Trump because they know none of their gang of losers can beat him in 2020


11 posted on 09/24/2019 6:21:39 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bitt

If you want to see two million armed Trump supporters roaming the halls of the capitol building go right ahead.


12 posted on 09/24/2019 6:22:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: bitt

13 posted on 09/24/2019 6:23:49 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: familyop

and Rasmussen showed Obama with 44% at the same point.

WaPo is using polls carried out by FakeNewsMSM and anti-Trump pollsters in the main, aren’t they? anyone have the list cos I can’t find it on RCP.


14 posted on 09/24/2019 6:24:57 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wait til after tomorrow, when the world has a collective yawn after reading the transcript and Trump and the Ukraine president issue a joint statement. Democrats be like:


15 posted on 09/24/2019 6:29:55 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The idea that these gyrations are due to the fact that he was fighting with the squad are ludicrous.


16 posted on 09/24/2019 6:43:45 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A recent survey of republican students at Harvard reported that some two thirds of them would not feel secure about revealing their true political leanings in a classroom, so they keep quiet. I suspect about the same thing is happening in the polling business.
17 posted on 09/24/2019 6:57:20 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Ma’am,

You are 100% CORRECT. - NONE of the DIMocRATS, who have announced for the DIM’s nomination, have a prayer of EVER being POTUS.

Yours, TMN78247


18 posted on 09/24/2019 7:02:03 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: GreyFriar

Well, I used to work for a polling firm and called and bothered people with surveys. If we had more white respondents than needed, we only would take surveys from whatever demographic was lacking in representation. This was always near the end of the survey.


19 posted on 09/24/2019 7:13:45 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most Americans do not like bullies and the entire democrat party has revealed itself to be a bully organization.


20 posted on 09/24/2019 7:15:19 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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