Posted on 01/17/2017 4:58:29 AM PST by Zakeet
When President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office Friday, he'll be the most unpopular man to do so in decades, two new polls showed.
A majority of Americans - 54% - have an unfavorable opinion of the incoming president, a Tuesday Washington Post/ABC News poll showed. A second survey, conducted by CNN and ORC, reported that 52% of people do not approve of the way the president-elect has been handling the transition.
In each poll, just 40% of respondents said they view Trump and his transition team favorably.
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#fakenews
>> Can we assume they polled the same people who were polled before the election?
Those were voters. These are Americans.
You're right, but the pollsters who polled in the Deer Hunter and Red states were (IMO) some of the more screwy pollsters nationally. eg, Monmouth and Survey Monkey polled Wisconsin and got that completely wrong, too. Most pollsters who were on the money didn't poll individual states.
But my argument stands: I don't think anyone will be able to tell much about Trump from national polling for the next 4 (or 8) years.
FWIW, President Ulysses Grant probably didn't have very high national approval numbers, either.
Polls aren’t news. They are opinion. Polls can be easily cooked to say whatever you want them to say.
Oh wait...
FOTGLOL
It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.
I’m 67 years old, I have never been polled once in my entire life about anything.
So I am supposed to give a flying f#ck what a poll says?
The only poll that mattered was on election day and America chose Trump. All other polls are Fake.
This is nonsense! Trump just won the presidential election. Now the leftwing news people want us to believe that he has lost the respect of 10% of the whole country before he has even done anything.
I am losing respect for the news media more everyday now. I cannot believe that they would be pulling something like this. Oh, it was the New York Daily News.
Good one. Hope you get to check it off.
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