Posted on 08/24/2020 7:19:01 AM PDT by apillar
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll sponsored by Liberty Nation for Monday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 39% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1. (see trends)
This year is actually kind of weird, since 2000 my job has taken me through some of the "battleground" counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In past elections I could always pretty accurately guess the outcome of the election by the volume of yard signs. This year there's literally nothing...for either Trump or Biden. In my recent trip to Ohio, I saw one Trump flag, but not a single yard sign anywhere for either candidate. Not sure what this means. People are afraid to express their political views in the current "cancel culture" environment? or perhaps people just have tuned politics out with everything else that's going on with COVID and the riots.
Bingo!
He’s barely been above 50%.
This is significant. Trump has bumped up overnight before, and one time hit 50, then 51 before dropping back.
As good as Ras is, I think it’s still undercounting Trump by 2-3. I think he may be around 55% right now.
More important, the DEMOKKKRATS KNOW IT. They know he is gonna crush Demented Perv Biteme. Like angry monkeys, they are flinging every piece of dung against the wall they can-—riots, post office, mail in ballots. It won’t work. Trump will win with at least 320 EVs.
But there was an “internal poll” (don’t trust those) that said he was within 5 in New York. Just for reference, in “How Trump Won” I told of an internal poll I saw in Oct. 2016 right before “Access Hollywood” that showed Trump within 2 in OR, 3 in RI, and 4 in IL. I asked Bannon if that was accurate and he said yes.
I still maintain that this poll was the reason they launched “Access Hollywood in early October rather than waiting 2-3 weeks. They had no choice. Cankles was about to lose MN, NH, and possibly some other states.
President Trump has exercised good message discipline as of late. He has largely refrained from riffing on issues, and has also not gotten into petty bickering at press conferences, which diminishes his stature. I believe this has contributed to the level of confidence Americans have in him.
He has also staked out his opposition to the riots, and trumpeted his support of law enforcement, while smartly snubbing the Kent State bait waved by the Rat insurrectionists.
All-in-all, some very presidential behavior.
Now, if he could learn to read from paper with the skill he reads from teleprompters . . .
To whom would they turn?
Gee Jeff I am so glad you approve of Pres. Trump. Now I can sleep at night. /sarc
What I gave is an honest appraisal of how the President is viewed by voters who are not his fan bois. Now you can keep dancing around in your little cheerleader skirt, waving your pom poms, but there is a large portion of the voting public who do not follow politics as deeply as we do, who only catch glimpses of public appearances. They tend to find the petty bickering and the inarticulate riffing a big turnoff, and Brother, the President needs their votes, too.
I hope Trump tweets his head off.
IOW, the fact that I miss at least one call a day (because I screen) has skewed the results by a fraction of a percent. Now multiply that by the number of conservatives who have been doing the same thing...
If Biden and the Dems had offered a strong, credible, and appealing alternative to Trump, some soft Trump supporters and leaners would have defected to Biden or failed to vote for either of them for President. Instead of trying to engage these voters, Biden and the Dems chose to energize their core supporters with abundant we-hate-Trump rhetoric and to keep Bernie Sanders and the hard Left aboard with promises as to how they would govern. Just what was in that to draw in undecideds and soft Trump supporters? Nothing, of course, and the polling now seems to reflect that with Trump accruing new support.
This sets the stage for the GOP convention and the rest of the campaign. I expect that a well-run and successful GOP convention will give Trump and the GOP a solid upward bounce in the polls. With the general public paying closer attention to issues and policy choices, Trump seems likely to be reelected by a solid margin, with the GOP also doing well. The key to victory will be a strong focus on issues with positive, upbeat rhetoric. And that seems to be what Trump and the GOP intend.
Today we drove around Hampton Roads (Portsmouth area) literally all over in and out of streets. We saw many many Trump signs in areas that do not vote Trump. It was actually shocking and hubby and I were shocked some had big brass cajones to put it in their yard in those areas. Saw ONE Biden sign!
Today we drove around Hampton Roads (Portsmouth area) literally all over in and out of streets. We saw many many Trump signs in areas that do not vote Trump. It was actually shocking and hubby and I were shocked some had big brass cajones to put it in their yard in those areas. Saw ONE Biden sign!
“Normally I’d point to the Mitt Romney comment about 47% being on the government dole and electing a ham sandwich if it was on the D ticket.”
It’s telling when a politician’s best moment is counted as a gaffe.
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