Posted on 12/31/2017 9:56:18 AM PST by John Semmens
The 2017 Rasmussen year-end poll of presidential approval ratings for President Trump of 46% approve vs. 53% disapprove matched those of his 2009 year-end presidential approval poll of President Obama. In polls taken shortly after each man's inauguration, Obama's approval rating was 67% while Trump's was 59%.
Considering that Trump's first year had to endure an unrelenting barrage of negative media coverage while Obama received relatively little criticism makes the Rasmussen results all the more amazing. According to the Pew Research Center, Obama received 42% positive coverage vs. only 20% negative coverage. In contrast, Trump received only 5% positive coverage vs. 62% negative coverage.
Trump's tweet hailing the latest Rasmussen poll numbers was airily dismissed by CNN: "Our weighted average of the polling data shows that Secretary Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election by a landslide. This one Rasmussen poll is clearly an outlier with little credibility or connection to reality."
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Comparing Trump ratings to Obama ratings is like comparing two football games when the one team got a bye, and the other was a playoff final.
The Commie Media licked Obama’s ass and called it ice cream for 8 years yet his approval ratings were pretty low..and even after Benghazi, won re-election..meanwhile President Trump gets called Hitler every single day by the same Commie media, calls for his assassination by the same Commie media, yet his approval numbers are exactly like Obama’s..you can bet in 2018 the Commie media will try even harder to destroy Trump but they NEVER will because we have his back!
The Kenyan was a poor excuse for a turd, comparing him to a man is ludicrous
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