Posted on 12/18/2015 11:31:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump's image among the overall U.S. population has trended up, not down, after his Dec. 7 recommendation that the U.S. prevent Muslims from coming into the country. The statement was met with extraordinary controversy -- even for Trump -- and most of his fellow Republican candidates, along with Democratic leaders, denounced it. Clearly, it would not have surprised many observers if Trump's image had taken a hit as a result.
But we can reject that hypothesis, at least based on data we have collected so far. Trump had a negative image among American adults to begin with, but it became slightly less so after his pronouncement, rather than more so.
In the two weeks leading up to and including Dec. 7, Trump had a net favorable score among national adults of -27, based on a favorable percentage of 32% and an unfavorable percentage of 59%. That improved slightly to a net favorable of -22 (34% favorable, 56% unfavorable) for the nine days from Dec. 8 to Dec. 16.
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Whether they can speak English or not.
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No reason it should have. It is the most sane thing to do.
Heck, I’m thinking the passing of this monstrosity of a spending bill may have clinched the nomination for Trump.
This says to me, that most of the negative image goes away when the adults are exposed to the real Trump.
The negative image is all fluff and nonsense, all created by the media cartel.
If Trump gets to 20% favorable among the Democrats (already up to 16%), it's lights out for Shrillary regardless.
RE: Pretty amazing for what is still essentially a 15-person race.
The thing that concerns me is his HUGE NEGATIVE IMAGE from the beginning up to now.
h/t: Capt'n Obvious
Yes Trump is over the hump and on the way to the finish line. Can’t wait to get this over with.
The thing that concerns me is our current Congressional leaders.
I don't see anybody beating Trump for the nomination at this point. They are too far behind.
My bet is that the DC cartel is working on a Trump solution that involves a lone gunman.
The media has always believed that if you say something long enough, you will believe it....
This time it isn’t working...Trump is out and about all the time, the people hear and see him at rallies and speeches, on T.V. on social media...
It’s been hard for the media and talking heads to understand that their game plan is not working...and are exploding all over because it’s not working...
#MakeAmericaGreatAgain!!!
People differed over the practicality of carrying it out literally as stated.
But they heartily agreed that something as close to that as possible needs to happen while jihadist missions are a menace.
Or just MAGA for short
You may be right but lets home nobody can get to him. I hope he’s wearing a vest at those rallies.
Well if you are going to do something about an endemic problem you are going to gain a lot of domestic enemies. The question is whether this will evolve to at least a grudging respect.
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