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Trump is still the least popular president of all time according to Nate Silver

Jesse Booth said:
Wage stagnation, the highest incarceration rate in the world, opioid abuse on a horrific scale, college debt, foreign wars without congressional approval, a war on drugs that kills more Americans than the drugs we're fighting, plummeting economic achievement among males, massive overdiagnosis of ADHD/ADD, the rise of mass shootings, overwhelming partisanship, pollution, a Veteran's Administration that hasn't been fixed decades after Gerald Ford said it was a huge problem, massive obesity rates, a depression pandemic, foreign meddling in our elections, congressional corruption and special interest legislation, and many, many more problems.
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Nothing in that list that trump will bother with. We need a Democrat in office.
 
And according to Gulfman Obama was the worst President
 
Floridafan said:
Nothing in that list that trump will bother with. We need a Democrat in office.
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Everything on that list was a problem under Obama, and almost all of it was a problem under Bush, and under Clinton before him.

Do you see a pattern of Democrats saving the day? Because I sure don't.
 
Jesse Booth said:
Wage stagnation, the highest incarceration rate in the world, opioid abuse on a horrific scale, college debt, foreign wars without congressional approval, a war on drugs that kills more Americans than the drugs we're fighting, plummeting economic achievement among males, massive overdiagnosis of ADHD/ADD, the rise of mass shootings, overwhelming partisanship, pollution, a Veteran's Administration that hasn't been fixed decades after Gerald Ford said it was a huge problem, massive obesity rates, a depression pandemic, foreign meddling in our elections, congressional corruption and special interest legislation, and many, many more problems.
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Quite a list you put together there. I'm impressed.
 
If you could harness the power from the wishful thinking drawn from cherry picked data-points in this thread, you could solve the energy crisis overnight.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
This ^ is the problem with the TDS sufferers. They would rather see Trump fail (and by extension Americans) just so they can say "We told you so" than see a Prosperous America. How sad.
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Not much different than what you did to Obama- my how times have changed.
 
Floridafan said:
Allies of Donald Trump have increasingly been pushing back on stories of his intense unpopularity.

Trump is falsely claiming that his approval rating is higher than Obama’s and Fox is thumping his seven-point increase in the past month. Even liberal outlets like New York magazine are reporting that Trump’s numbers are “on the rise.”
But Trump is benefitting from low expectations. Because he’s still the least popular president of all-time according to numbers tracked by data maven Nate Silver.

On Silver’s site FiveThirtyEight, you can see interactive graphs which track Trump’s approval rating against every president who’s served since the advent of modern polling. Currently, 53% of Americans disapprove of Trump, compared to just 40% who approve.

Those stats are drawn from several weighted polls and show that Trump has had a lower approval than any president, ever.

The only times Trump has been more popular than past presidents are during the first week of the George W. Bush presidency, 13 days in the middle of Bill Clinton’s first term and several months of Ford’s term in which the two anti-intellectual and scandal-ridden Republican’s numbers cross-cross often. In fact, Trump’s numbers track very closely to Ford’s numbers in the middle of his term.

Richard Nixon was never as unpopular as Trump is right now
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports®
 
phattonez said:
Nixon won 49 states in 1972, including a whopping 60% of the popular vote (compared to 37 for McGovern). I think you underestimate how popular Nixon was.
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Yeah, and two years later nobody would admit voting for him.
 
MTAtech said:
Yeah, and two years later nobody would admit voting for him.
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Was there a poll like that?

The only phenomenon like that that I saw were references to polls in the decades after Kennedy's assassination in which far too many Americans claimed they voted for Kennedy over Nixon in 1960.

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Floridafan said:
You can only judge Trump on the basis of where he is today, however the future doesnt look promising at all.
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President Trump is at 51%, right now; 5 points higher than Obama at the same point of his presidency.
 
apdst said:
President Trump is at 51%, right now; 5 points higher than Obama at the same point of his presidency.
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Not according to DailyKOS and EVERYONE knows that it's only the ultra-left sources that are correct.
 
Velvet Elvis said:
Not according to DailyKOS and EVERYONE knows that it's only the ultra-left sources that are correct.
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As opposed to those who cherry pick Trump's best poll, even though it's 8-10% higher than every single other one, and treat it like it's fact. Saying Trump's approval rating is 51% like it's gospel isn't any better than anything in the OP.
 
Fiddytree said:
Was there a poll like that?

The only phenomenon like that that I saw were references to polls in the decades after Kennedy's assassination in which far too many Americans claimed they voted for Kennedy over Nixon in 1960.
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I remember that at the time. I'm sure one can document it somehow.
 
Anagram said:
As opposed to those who cherry pick Trump's best poll, even though it's 8-10% higher than every single other one, and treat it like it's fact. Saying Trump's approval rating is 51% like it's gospel isn't any better than anything in the OP.
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Just you wait. Soon someone will say "Rasmussen was the most accurate pollster of all of them during the 2016 election" even though....no.
 
Anagram said:
As opposed to those who cherry pick Trump's best poll, even though it's 8-10% higher than every single other one, and treat it like it's fact. Saying Trump's approval rating is 51% like it's gospel isn't any better than anything in the OP.
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The source in the OP gave President Trump a 29% chance of winning. Sounds like some folks do their own cherry pickin'.
 
apdst said:
The source in the OP gave President Trump a 29% chance of winning. Sounds like some folks do their own cherry pickin'.
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Something that happens about a 3rd of a time isn't that big an upset, especially not compared to some of the prognosticators who had 99%.

And I really wish conservatives would stop stooping to whatever level that they think liberals are at. It reflects poorly on me. Horrible arguments aren't justified just because other people make horrible arguments.
 
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