"Orange Man bad!"
Posted on 02/11/2019 7:00:09 AM PST by mandaladon
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.
Trump's highest level of approval since shortly after his inauguration.
The latest figures include 39% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 39% who Strongly Disapprove
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The Lord works in mysterious ways ...
Have you never heard of inflation? The dollar isn't worth anything now. According to the CPI Calculator website, $3,750.00 in January 1968 would be the same purchasing power as $27,628.26 today.
Kelly Blue Book "invoice price" on a Chevy Camaro SS (V8) is $36,515. Sure, that's 32% more than the inflation-corrected CPI figure, but the CPI figure often underestimates present-day purchase prices. And, that may be including pricey options, like a navigation system (why buy that when you have a phone?).
My point is, don't focus on dollar numbers from 1968. You have to correct for inflation to even get in the ballpark.
Run the comparative prices in gold and silver.
If you can find a tricked out Chevy Camoro SS for inflation adjusted price of 27,000 ,that’s a blue color price. Not 50 gs plus though.
Make the muscle cars affordable, make a lot of them and get rid of the federal fuel economy regulations.
Let ‘er rip!
Every blue collar steel worker and coal miner should be able to buy one!
Take a poll, any poll and add 7 points to the results to see the true approval rating.
5.56mm
Slightly off-topic:
Lately I’ve seen some nice pictures of Trump. He’s not orange and he doesn’t have darkness around his eyes. Makes me wonder where the orangeness and darkness comes from in other pictures of him.
You can probably add 5-10 points to the 52% for silent Trump supporters who will say disapprove just to mess with the polling.
Net negatives at 0%.
ObaMao’s best actual poll ever was 52% with the enemedia covering for him 24/7.
Hope he avoids grassy knolls. They’ve tried everything else. Wouldn’t put anything past them.
The only issue with higher approval numbers is the ability of the media to put forth the narrative that Trump is in decline with voters when the numbers decrease. All about manipulating the undecided and independent voters, while discouraging the voters on the right.
There's that number again. The one thing Mitt Romney was probably right about (back in 2012), is that there are a large number of people who will always vote Democrat. You will never get them to vote for Trump. Never. The best you can hope for is that they stay home. It may not be the 47% Mitt and this poll claim, but it's near that. Trying to win them over is a waste of time. He might be able to win over a couple more percent of the electorate, but 52% is approaching his ceiling.
Gold is 1300 today.
In 1968 Gold was 39, but that might have been under government control at the time, so I’m not sure if it will be a free market comparison.
In any case, it’s 33 times more today. That says the Chevy should be about 125,000 today, so something is obviously wrong with the value of gold in 1968.
You are correct. Gold was being constrained by the US government. It was allowed to float later in the 70’s.
A better comparison would be late 70’s or 1980 when gold was freely floating.
I have the same fears regarding the violence that will be perpetrated by the left. remember....the ends justify the means....leftest motto
look like a relative of Christie’s....lol
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