Posted on 07/06/2018 3:14:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On June 25, Axios’s Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei took readers inside Donald Trump’s “winning, cynical plan.” They argued that “the more President Trump does, says and tweets outrageous things, the more his critics go bananas and the better he does in the polls.”
The evidence for this was that Trump had hit 45 percent in Gallup’s presidential approval tracker — a personal high for him, though he’s since slipped back to 42 percent. More impressively, Trump’s approval among Republicans is hovering around 90 percent, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s disapproval among Republicans was up to 53 percent.
“It’s arguably the most cynical strategy imaginable,” write Allen and VandeHei. “But that doesn’t mean it can’t be successful politically.”
I should say at the outset: I believe Allen and VandeHei have this one wrong. I don’t think Trump’s poll numbers show he’s found a successful political strategy — quite the opposite, in fact. But this is a difficult debate to have because it requires defining what success would look like for Trump, which means settling on some counterfactual sense of where Trump’s poll numbers could and should be....
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this is a difficult debate to have because it requires defining what success would look like for Trump, which means settling on some counterfactual sense of where Trump’s poll numbers could and should be....
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“But this is a difficult debate to have because it requires defining what success would look like for Trump, which means settling on some counterfactual sense of where Trump’s poll numbers could and should be....”
uh, yeah. right.
“counterfactual sense” = nonsense
“where Trump’s poll numbers could and should be” = more nonsense that’s so nonsensical it’s actually just plain ol’ bullshite ...
Reality is pimp slapping poor leftists in the face and they have no idea what to do. This shouldn’t have happened, they think. The country belonged to them, they thought.
It reads like a parody of Abbot and Costello imitating Cheech and Chong.
These people don't understand Trump or why his supporters support him so strongly. They don't have a clue.
They're just stabbing around in the dark.
Only 53% of (R)s believe that their president is being hosed by R. Mueller? What are the other 47% watching?
We finally have an American President acting like the President of the United States of America instead of President of the New World order and they think it’s a cynical ploy.
Talk about dead to irony !
Yes, Vox is so deep they could not drown a flea in their pool.
Yeah it’s only 98% of the media, academia, blogs, Hollywood, the music industry, Broadway, authors, unions, Silicon Valley, the Democrats, NeverTrumpers and GOPe attacking him every day, why can’t he get some traction in the polls?
Axios's Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei... argued that “the more President Trump does, says and tweets outrageous things, the more his critics go bananas and the better he does in the polls.”
By outrageous, those two Partisan Media Shills mean, things that melt the snowflakes. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Inside the strong Trump GOP poll numbers is a huge segment of longtime party members who have hated the leftist media for decades.
Trump is the only modern day politician, if you wan to call him that, who dared go straight after the media and hammer them for their intellectually dishonest reporting.
The old guard has lost it’s headlock on the voting public. Despite over 90 percent negative reporting for month leading up to the election, 63 million people turned out to thank Trump for mocking the fake news boys and destroy their leftist plans for America.
His SC nominee next week with be an in your face pick just to spite the phony media talking heads. The mid terms, a referendum on the first two years of Trump.
Wonder how that’s gonna turn out???
Inside the strong Trump GOP poll numbers is a huge segment of longtime party members who have hated the leftist media for decades.
Trump is the only modern day politician, if you wan to call him that, who dared go straight after the media and hammer them for their intellectually dishonest reporting.
The old guard has lost it’s headlock on the voting public. Despite over 90 percent negative reporting for months leading up to the election, 63 million people turned out to thank Trump for mocking the fake news boys and destroy their leftist plans for America.
His SC nominee next week with be an in your face pick just to spite the phony media talking heads. The mid terms, a referendum on the first two years of Trump.
Wonder how that’s gonna turn out???
When are these people going to realize that they are irrelevant...we don’t want them...we don’t need them.
Trump bashing from a DNC propagandist.
So stupid, they’re basically discounting Trump’s numbers against the good news that he’s presiding over. We’ll see how that works out for them in 2020.
The country is doing well, and all they have is the racist Waters and the corrupt Mueller.
When I get polled I lie.
I thought the same thing!
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