Josh Marshall: Trump Falling Fast

[babylonsister]

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Trump Falling Fast

By Josh Marshall
Published January 17, 2017, 1:55 PM EDT


We've seen tons of polls and articles showing that Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in the history of polling and in all likelihood in the history of the country. In a sense that's not terribly surprising since his favorability was extremely low throughout the campaign and he actually lost the popular vote by about 2 percentage points. But there's something more to it than that. He's gotten more unpopular through the course of the transition.

This again is close to unprecedented. As you'd expect, the electorate remains highly divided in the days just after a presidential election and then has a rally on effect as the national pageantry of the change of power accelerates. The opposite is happening with Trump.

We now have two good apples to apples approval measures for Trump's transition.

Gallup tested Trump approval in the second week of December and got 48%-48%. In early January the number had fallen to 44% approve, 51% disapprove.

Today's CNN poll has another before and after. In mid-November 46% approved and 45% disapproved, against basically tied. In the poll just out today it's 40% approve, 52% disapprove.

These numbers aren't just double digits behind all his recent predecessors - at the same period, Obama was at 83%, Bush at 61% and Clinton at 68%. Most got more popular through their transitions. Trump's getting more unpopular as he goes.

[dhol82]

1. The shit show is becoming more obvious.

[Miles Archer]

7. There's a plethora of "buyer's remorse" Websites and Twitter pages springing up

I've posted a few, as have others. The people who voted for him are slowly realizing they have been conned, but the saddest aspect of it is most of them are trying to reason with him in whiny little sentences like "I voted for you, and you promised to (fill in the blank)."

He'll be removed for one reason, and one reason only...if he fails to support the agendas of Ryan and McConnell. If that happens, he'll be out of the Oval Office faster than shit through a goose.

But as long as they are both getting what they want, he's not going anywhere, and the polls and "approval ratings" are the kinds of things Republicans will print on 2-ply. They don't care. They got a House and Senate majority, and as long as Trump doesn't get in the way, he can pretty much do whatever the hell he wants.

[dhol82]

9. I've been hearing that Trump is suddenly much more 'subdued'

He must be learning that he's now the big loser.
Couldn't happen to smarmier piece of shit.

[alfredo]

2. We live in interesting times.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Trumps approval rating is lower than Congress

below 9%

[ffr]

4. Our neighbors, yours and mine, Joe and Jane Hoodwink, must be ashamed of their choice

But I won't forget what they did in their selfish hatred of democrats.

Let them feel the pain and humiliation for their crime against this nation.

[KingCharlemagne]

8. +Infinity - nt

[Akamai]

10. Yup! A 1000 times!

[UTUSN]

5. R#25 & K n/t

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. To borrow a line from National Lampoon's Vacation:

"You may think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it."

[Akamai]

11. Jeez! Great line! Don't remember it from movie but so applicable here!!!

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[uponit7771]

12. His voters will never ever agree they made the wrong choice even though they see he's an asshole

[Elmergantry]

14. Polls?

Considering how accurate they were in predicting the electoral college outcome, how can I be assured they are accurate?