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NBC/WSJ Poll: Just 29 Percent Approve of Trump’s Firing of James Comey

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NBC/WSJ Poll: Just 29 Percent Approve of Trump’s Firing of James Comey

by Mark Murray
May 14, 2017

Just 29 percent of Americans say they approve of President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, while 38 percent disapprove, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Another 32 percent of respondents don't have enough to say on the matter. Yet among those who say they have read, seen or heard "a lot" about the firing, 53 percent say they disapprove, versus 33 percent who approve. The NBC/WSJ poll — conducted May 11-13, after Trump's dismissal of Comey — doesn't show a significant change in the president's overall standing. Trump's job-approval rating stands at 39 percent, which is one point lower than last month's NBC/WSJ survey — well within the poll's margin of error.

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A strong public perception of obstruction of justice is gaining ground as a result of Trumps TV interview comment that “this Russia thing with Trump” was on his mind when he fired FBI Director James B. Comey.
 
Is this one of the polls that predicted a Clinton shoe-in?
 
apdst said:
The polls predicting a Clinton landslide were gauging the opinions of voters at the time.
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And guess what: anything can happen.

You are one of the republicans who agrees with trump in this poll and you have the freedom to do so. Just like I have the freedom to disapprove of trump's firing of Comey.
 
reinoe said:
Polling. lol...

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Unfortunately, the election was not held that day. Public opinion can be volatile, particularly when news releases are made at strategic times.

Now, back to the actual topic of the thread. How is it that 29% of the population has been fooled? The president fires the person who is conducting an investigation into election irregularities, and that's not a cover up? In whose parallel universe?
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
And guess what: anything can happen.

You are one of the republicans who agrees with trump in this poll and you have the freedom to do so. Just like I have the freedom to disapprove of trump's firing of Comey.
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You do have the right to disagree. This is true. I have the right to expose the reasons your hysteria is misplaced.

What I agree with, is that President Trump was well within his authority to fire Comey. Do I agree that Comey should have been fired? I'm on the fence. Was it a good political move? I wouldn't think so, but as dynamic as the political scene has been, I might be proven wrong.
 
Trump's new strategy of "universal condemnation" of his presidency is reaping benefits across the spectrum.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Unfortunately, the election was not held that day. Public opinion can be volatile, particularly when news releases are made at strategic times.

Now, back to the actual topic of the thread. How is it that 29% of the population has been fooled? The president fires the person who is conducting an investigation into election irregularities, and that's not a cover up? In whose parallel universe?
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what parts of Hillary's agenda appealed to your "libertarian" leanings?
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
And guess what: anything can happen.

You are one of the republicans who agrees with trump in this poll and you have the freedom to do so. Just like I have the freedom to disapprove of trump's firing of Comey.
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most people who vote in this country are rather clueless about most of the issues. I doubt most of them could tell you who Comey was and what position he held until a couple weeks ago. Rather, they bleat in unison because those mooing the loudest are whining about what Trump did
 
Dittohead not! said:
Mainly that she wasn't Trump.
I voted for Gary Johnson for two reasons: He wasn't Hillary, and he wasn't Trump.
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fair enough but his ignorance of world affairs and his running mate essentially admitting they were trying to help Hillary completely made him a non entity in my book. Plus I live in arguably the most important swing state. If I lived in say California, NY or Wyoming or Texas I could see voting third party
 
TurtleDude said:
fair enough but his ignorance of world affairs and his running mate essentially admitting they were trying to help Hillary completely made him a non entity in my book. Plus I live in arguably the most important swing state. If I lived in say California, NY or Wyoming or Texas I could see voting third party
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Exactly. I live in California. My vote in the general presidential election doesn't count anyway, so I quite often cast a protest vote for a third party.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Exactly. I live in California. My vote in the general presidential election doesn't count anyway, so I quite often cast a protest vote for a third party.
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you make a good point lots of people miss. there is no doubt that Hillary won a huge margin in California. I have a bunch of friends from college who live there and said the same thing. One of my friends-an Episcopal Priest in Va is originally from LA and her grown sons live out there and she said her siblings and sons did the same thing. She said if they lived in Va they would have voted for Trump since it was a swing state. But in California, Hillary was going to win. So lots of people who may have voted for Trump if they lived in Ohio or Va voted for Johnson or didn't vote because they weren't fans of Trump and they knew it didn't matter anyway
 
reinoe said:
Polling. lol...

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Again, you should better understand the difference between an opinion poll and an election poll.

Election polls, especially in the US, are far more complicated than opinion polls. They are a combination of opinion poll AND, the complicated part, a prediction of who will actually vote. Moreover, a US presidential election poll is an amalgamation of 51 independent electorates.

538.com, the most accurate of all election polls, had Hillary's chances 2 to 1 in the end. A 2 to 1 underdog winning isn't that much of an upset. If you actually understood the 2016 election polls, the closing polls had Hillary up by 2..... she won the popular vote by 2.

Continuing to think that the 2016 presidential election polls discredit all polling is to show your ignorance of the polling.
 
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TurtleDude said:
you make a good point lots of people miss. there is no doubt that Hillary won a huge margin in California. I have a bunch of friends from college who live there and said the same thing. One of my friends-an Episcopal Priest in Va is originally from LA and her grown sons live out there and she said her siblings and sons did the same thing. She said if they lived in Va they would have voted for Trump since it was a swing state. But in California, Hillary was going to win. So lots of people who may have voted for Trump if they lived in Ohio or Va voted for Johnson or didn't vote because they weren't fans of Trump and they knew it didn't matter anyway
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One of the good things about California is that we are spared the ridiculous political ad campaigns during presidential elections. Neither major party candidate wants to waste their campaign money running ads in a state that is essentially single party when it comes to presidential elections.

But, no way would I ever in this lifetime have voted for a fraud and conman like Trump, never ever. I'd have written in Mickey Mouse first. Trump never was a Republican anyway.
 
upsideguy said:
Again, you should better understand the difference between an opinion poll and an election poll.

Election polls, especially in the US, are far more complicated than opinion polls. They are a combination of opinion poll AND, the complicated part, a prediction of who will actually vote. Moreover, a US presidential election poll is an amalgamation of 51 independent electorates.

538.com, the most accurate of all election polls, had Hillary's chances 2 to 1 in the end. A 2 to 1 underdog winning isn't that much of an upset. If you actually understood the 2016 election polls, the closing polls had Hillary up by 2..... she won the popular vote by 2.

Continuing to think that the 2016 presidential election polls discredit all polling is to show your ignorance of the polling.
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The easiest thing in the world to skew is an opinion poll. Please.
 
This poll has nothing to do with the 2016 presidential election (whattaboutism).

The poll was canvassed last week and shows that very few Americans support the Trump firing of FBI Director Comey.

And if that action wasn't Nixonian enough, Trump next threatens to blackmail Mr. Comey via secret White House tapes.

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
7:26 AM - 12 May 2017
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Erod said:
The easiest thing in the world to skew is an opinion poll. Please.
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No, the easiest thing in the world is to make wild A** statements on Debate Politics that you have not a clue how to back up. Do tell....
 
upsideguy said:
Do tell....
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Let's go interview 100 folks in south San Francisco as to their feelings about gay marriage.

You can take cross-sections however you'd like to support your agenda. Easy peasy.
 
Erod said:
Let's go interview 100 folks in south San Francisco as to their feelings about gay marriage.

You can take cross-sections however you'd like to support your agenda. Easy peasy.
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We are not talking about someone's 10th grade social sciences project, we are discussing professional polling. Do you have any clue as to the rigor that goes into such? Why not review a few and tell us all where the "holes" are...

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/hdfqb3wks2/econTabReport.pdf
How Does the Gallup Poll Social Series Work? | Gallup
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/PPP_Release_National_42017.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/document/348302118/NBC-WSJ-May-2017-poll
https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us05102017_U392prfb.pdf/

Or, how does political polling work...

http://www.wpr.org/how-exactly-does-political-polling-work
http://www.gallup.com/178685/methodology-center.aspx
 
A poll shows that most Americans think firing Comey was a mistake.

Trump never makes mistakes.

Therefore, the poll must be wrong, or else the firing was the fault of the Democrats.

Now, Trump's supporters could point out that a real leader sometimes has to make unpopular decisions, but then, even the Trumpeteers balk at calling Trump a real leader.
 
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