You only need 30% approval when over 30% refuse to vote.
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36% is still 37% too much, and on a more serious note I really think that is worryingly high.
Overall, about 61% of those polled disapproved of the strikes, an increase from 59% who disapproved of the strikes from last week's poll.
That's within the margin of error, so the increase in disapproval isn't a big deal. But the underwater points is a huge fucking deal. 25 points underwater is crazy, and I believe that republicans would vote for any white dude the dems put up, no matter what they say to the pollsters. The mood is wild right now.
I believe that republicans would vote for any white dude the dems put up
Lol. Absolutely not.
Dems gonna run Gavin Newsom and lose in 2028, no matter how bad things get or even if Trump runs for a third term.
Isn't this more or less the same as it has always been? Even during 1.0, about 33% was the MAGA ride-or-die base. If we had to vote in a Trump election again tomorrow, I'm sure that the missing 18% or more would show up once more to fuck us all.
Yes, I have that feeling too. We’re talking about 35% stable, ie no matter what happens around a third of the population will approve. I think that is worrying.
It's just a single outlier, his overall approval averaged over several polls is at 41% (RealClearPolling) or 40% (Nate Silver).
I’m always confused why he isn’t in the teens or lower. I guess people really are just that clueless and/or dumb.
Oh trust me, he’s in the teens, I can promise you that.
Hey-oooh!
Their media, too
Oh hey it's the worst president ever standing in front of the second worst ever.
TL;DR: A small percentage of voters woke up and smelled the coffee, but there are still a lot of stupid/willfully ignorant people out there.
I think it would be more accurate to say a small percentage of Republicans have recently been negatively affected personally.
And we need to start talking about how we’re going to deal with them after the midterms/2029. As far as I’m concerned their support of this regime should cost them dearly, both monetarily (to fix what they’ve wrought) as well as losing their right to vote. If they don’t want democracy they lose their ability to steal it from the rest of us.
He does not care
Why should he? he's getting billions and will have the position for life.
I don’t think his life will be very long. I do think that when the psychopaths bring the economy crashing down, people will exact vengeance on the architects of their destruction.
In the USA? Nah. People will just take it like bitches.
Being a felon rapist pedophile doesn't help either.
Sadly that part hasn't hurt him at all.
I'd argue it's made him more popular with the GOP.
The gas price increases are what will doom Trump.
It’s where the consequences will finally hit his base and anyone who could possibly wake up will start to wake up. The more times they have to pay too high of gas prices the more wake up moments they will have.
Add to this the existing schism on the right with America first vs MAGA there are real angry racists over there that can peel MAGA out to their side. That’s not necessarily good, but the MAGA coalition is currently on a ticking clock towards total collapse.
What happens post Trump isn’t going to be all flowers and happy times, but it looks right now that the Trump plane is in a nose dive. Maybe they have time to pull up right now, but will they? Anybody’s guess.
It sucks that it takes gas prices. But I'd rather have someone do the right thing for the wrong reason than not at all.
The gas price increases are what will doom Trump.
I'm going to say its "energy prices in general" that will sink him. Gasoline is certainly one of the biggest ones. However, Americans are being squeezed on energy prices in all areas. This winter just ending has been pretty cold and natural gas prices have been higher. Electricity prices too with the double whammy of increased demand from data centers and the decline in supply. Supply is not keeping up because of trump's war on commercial solar and wind generation, and pissing off our wonderful neighbors to the north that have abundant electricity from hydropower for export.
Worse, consumers, hit with high home and car energy prices, will seek substitutions. Home PV solar and EVs are pretty good solutions to this. Then consumers will see that trump canceled PV solar and EV tax credits in his signature BBB.
In June we'll see the next auction rates for electricity generation. I think its going to be even worse than the last auction rates. With climate change increasing heat during the summers, we're going have months of eye-popping electricity bills at the retail level right as the November elections are getting underway.
Gas prices are special because they're plastered all over roadways, which is important for cognition if you struggle with object permanence.
I think for the subset of people who are left still on the Trump train, this is actually a material consideration.
Back when adults were running things, the children were slapping Biden "I did that" stickers on the pumps at gas stations when the prices weren't even nearly as bad as they are now.
They're so stupid, it's not longer a comedy; it now has become a tragedy. Their stupidity has now doomed most of the world, not just their own country. Selfish imbred fucking hillbillies.
At this point, I have to say any prediction of MAGA crumbling or in any way abandoning their Golden God is pretty bold, to put it mildly. In a normal world your prediction, along with any one of the many hundreds of other reasoned predictions, would have come to fruition. Alas, here we are.
So yeah, I’ll believe MAGA’s crumbling when I see it’s already happened, and not a second before.
ETA: Y’all are forgetting about one important thing in the MAGA mindset. It’s never Trump’s fault. It’s always the idiots around him, the Deep State, the Swamp, or BidenHilaryObamaDemocrats’ fault. I say that as a joke, but these people are literally (and I mean “literally”) brainwashed. They’re fed a narrative day in and day out, and they eat it right up only to regurgitate it to any libtard who dares question the supreme being. Seriously, go read about the farmers who lost their farms but would still happily vote for the reason they lost their farms. Look at the bit I highlighted from the poll about trusting Republicans more with the economy (the ones who are in the process of exploding the deficit again)! None of that even makes a dent with these voters.
Oooo 38%. That’s a surprise, they got it under 40.
Along with the non voters it still looks like the majority of them are awful people.
I thought polls announced that they would stop measuring approval rating
Sadly it is only 3 points behind our democratic champion joe biden.