A CNN/SSRS survey of 1,245 U.S. adults shows that 63 percent are unhappy with Trump’s performance as president, the highest figure of either of his terms.#
More shocking : 37% isn’t sure or approves his performance.
37% isn’t sure or approves
I mean, there’s a lot of gray area in that stat. If 37% of Americans were looking at the President, giving a deep sigh, and saying “None of my business”, I’d prefer that to 37% waving big foam MAGA fingers and shouting “Four More Wars! Four More Wars!”
I guess you could attribute a fair share to self-destructive and contrarians but 37% is still too high.
isn’t sure or approves
I know it’s not you, but those really need to be different categories.
Absolutely!
Gotta keep an eye on that 37% because they seem to be the only ones that matter to the country … at the expense of everyone else.
Sure takes the “demos” out of “democracy”
Mr. Mander has entered the chat
This fucker is now more unpopular than the last most unpopular pres…which was him again.
Worst President ever.
he unironically is
I just checked and you’re not wrong. IMHO it’ll be even worse looking back - he’s got the worst qualities of both Jackson and Buchanan.
Boy, is Trump gonna be mad when he finds out that Trump beat his ratings.
I’m downvoting every headline like this until it’s referring to more than a 1 or 2% drop as “the lowest ever”. It is always a 60/40 split. Every time.
Reminds me of the Linux stats. Desktop adoption is really taking off!: 2.6% -> 2.7%
Getting tired of hope-baiting only to be disappointed.
Idk if I’d call it “hope-baiting”. Second term presidents having a post-election slump is very normal. If Trump wasn’t turning the fascism dial up to 11 with his ICE raids and taking multi-billion dollar under the table crypto bribes, he’d still be right in line with Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Reagan.
Also can’t help noticing the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races are looking Dem lopsided. Which is - again - pretty normal. Both states tend to vote against the Presidential Party in the following election cycle.
If anyone’s Hope-Baiting, its that asshole Zohran Mamdani, who keeps running around the wealthiest city in the country shouting “Better Things Are Possible”. We need more Dems like Sherrill and Spanberg, who are still on that “We promise to do a better job than Republicans of pogroming migrants and transgender athletes while cutting your taxes and privatizing your schools” neoliberal platform. Make Centrism Great Again, amirite?
No? Centrism in the US is skewed too far to the right for me to considered it centrist anymore. Even if adjusted for the skew though I’m not sure I’d find it a good platform. I’d like to see Mamdani as NYC mayor, and other progressive candidates winning their respective elections.
I was calling this hope-baiting because the same kinds of articles always creep up right before any election. “Ohhh look, dems could win! It’s looking bad for the GOP!” only for a bunch of voters to pull out foot guns and not vote, and then see another stooge put into a seat of power.
I am at a point where I don’t feel entitled to any hope. And I don’t want to see people deluded by articles that give a false sense of security that the next vote will oust a bastard and install a decent human. Complacency will doom the whole effort. Make people think it’s in the bag, and fewer will turn out to vote thinking things will be fine without them.
Every single vote will matter in fighting against this bald tyranny facing us now.
I have a feeling that they don’t care and that is terrifying to me.
He’s not planning on winning any more elections.
He definitely is he’s just counting on the numbers being whatever he tells the Russian hackers to make them be. He likely won’t be campaigning without the ego feeding crowds. He’ll (as if by magic) win the popular vote. I believe this was the purpose behind feeding all of our personal data in the government systems to Russia. They’ll pinpoint people to switch their votes and while I don’t know the plan on exactly how they’ll use the data, Defcon hackers showed exactly how they’ll be doing the vote tampering.
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Do polls even matter anymore in this era of politics?Are 1,245 US adults enough to gather anything truly meaningful? What type of people tend to take these polls and are they really reflective of the general population?
Been seeing these bs “disastrous polling for Trump” headlines since his first term
Disregarding sampling bias and other effects, sure, 1,245 is enough for a statistically significant representative sample. You can’t do a lot of subsampling or cohort analysis from it, but if you just want to infer the behavior and attitudes of “Americans” and you sample that many Americans effectively enough, you’re fine.
But practically speaking, no. You’re not going to sample that many Americans effectively enough. Polling is a shitshow these days.
He’s now tied with Biden’s lowest approval rating. This headline is making it sound like he’s in trouble, and he’s not, no matter how much we want him to be.
The WALLS are CLOSING IN on him now!!!
And this comes right after he boasts on… Truth Social, was it? about how incredibly popular he is. Interesting.
As a community can we just try to get sources that aren’t paywalled?
We can really consider paywalled/ adwalled journalism.
I share your preference but I find it odd to say it’s not journalism if it’s not available for free. Newspapers weren’t free but they were definitely journalism.
but I find it odd to say it’s not journalism if it’s not available for free. Newspapers weren’t free but they were definitely journalism.
As an author, I think it depends on where you think things begin and end. I publish in scientific journals, and its quite literally not possible to do the kind of work that I do if the information isn’t available. If I can’t access your work, I can’t “do science” on it because I can’t both a) be critical of it, and b) use it as the basis of my own work. Journalism, is in this sense, all the same; its transformative work that builds on things that already exist which the author themselves did not create.
The beginning of an article on the war on terror doesn’t begin or and when the author picks up the pen. That author will draw on sources and writing and journalism which already exists; while it may be transformative, it doesn’t exist as an island to itself. If I can’t read your work, I can’t audit it or build on it. Journalism has the same knowledge-building logic. Reporting is transformative work that stands on prior reporting; it’s meant to be checked, contextualized, and advanced by others, and barriers that prevent that from happening.
And to be clear, I spend real money every month on journalists whose coverage I think is good and important and should be supported. But I specifically support journalists who put their work out there freely; I don’t support operations that don’t put there work out there for all to consume.
Particularly noteworthy here is the way the 5-7% who are “unsure” in all previous polls have disappeared in the past few months.
I’d love to know what part of that percentage is because some people are so tuned out that they don’t pay attention at all and have just realized politics cares about them, too, and under Taco, that’s not a good thing? Or how many were okay with everything Taco was doing, as long as they thought they wouldn’t be impacted, because fuck everyone else, and now realize that they may be impacted?
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Por que no los dos?
He is damned.
