Posted on 01/30/2018 5:43:09 PM PST by blam
Assuming President Trump's State of the Union address goes as well as last year's speech to a joint session of Congress, Trump's approval rating, which lingered below 40% for much of last year, will likely see a bump tomorrow, along with stocks, which today are seeing their worst daily drop since the Brexit vote.
But Trump's low national approval rating masks something that's important when evaluating Trump's popularity: His approval varies dramatically from state to state. Indeed, in many of the states that he carried on election night, his approval rating is in excess of 60%.
According to a recent Gallup poll, Trump averaged 50% or higher approval in 12 states in total, primarily in the states where he received the most votes in the 2016 election.
In addition to West Virginia, the states where at least half the respondents approved of Trump included several western states (Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Alaska), several southern states (Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas) and two Midwestern states (North and South Dakota).
Trump earned between 40% and 49% approval - above his national average - in 20 states. These were predominantly in the Midwest and South, and included several of the key rustbelt states that were critical to his 2016 victory: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Fewer than 40% of respondents approved of Trump in the remaining 18 states, 14 of which are located in the East and West - his worst performing regions in the election. In addition to Vermont, his ratings were particularly low - below 30% - in Massachusetts (27%), California (29%) and Hawaii (29%). Maryland, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island round out the states where fewer than one-third of the respondents approved.
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Why not a map by zipcode?
No f$cking way Trump’s approval <40 in Texas!
He’s below 40% in Texas?
Even given the polling data is good, I don’t think it reflects the depth of Trump’s support. For example, the Presidential vote in 2016 in Minnesota - which hasn’t gone Rep since Nixon - was Clinton 1,367,716 and Trump 1,322,951. That’s pretty close for a Dem stronghold.
Yep, and he lost in Michigan to Hillary by 20%. Oh wait.
Minnesota’s on the verge of crossing over, mark my words. Unfortunately, I’m starting to worry about Texas. Trump underperformed there and now you have this poll.
Below 40% in Texas?! FAKE NEWS.
Given all the times my bumper sticker gets me the finger at traffic lights I’d say it’s about 10% in Massachusetts.
Texas kept prompting califreakians to move there...this is the predictable result
Agree with you!
Then I saw it was a Gallup poll, so I immediately dismissed the results.
“I’m starting to worry about Texas. Trump underperformed there and now you have this poll”
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Well, we’ve certainly seen how bad polling can be. TX has a lot of Hispanic illegals & legals, being a border state. Wonder if Gallup is including the “dreamer” types in their numbers.
Wonder if they polled heavier in democrat heavy areas. Or if they manipulated the answers with carefully worded questions. It is Gallup, after all.
They must have polled Austin to get the below 40 in Texas.
Yep. That makes the whole thing suspect to me.
Sweet Home Alabama. Oops. We elected Dougie jones,
Only Temporarly.
“He’s below 40% in Texas?”
Look at Texas’ big cities. They are all RAT, Black RAT, or Mexican RAT run! The “country conservatives” in Texas better start kicking the cow $hit off their boots and figure out how to save their state before it’s too late! Y’all talk about Mexifornia! Well, Texico is in your near future.
yes and cruz is in trouble there. Texas is going purple.
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