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that during its 17 years of tracking presidents with YouGov
17 years. The survey started in 2009. So, the presidents included are Obama, Trump, Biden and Trump in his second term.
He's the most unpopular president... out of 3.
I have no doubt that Trump is one of the worst, most despised presidents in at least modern history. But, I wouldn't consider "modern history" to have started with the Obama presidency.
Can we get this meme with the turnip $250 on it?
Maybe if they staged another assassination attempt it will turn his polls around.
Trump eating a bullet probably would save his party in the mid-terms, if for no other reason than all the Democrats would be forced to line up and announce how much they disapprove of it.
Huh. Interesting. I wouldn't have guessed this based on talking to people in my town.
The Economist said Thursday that during its 17 years of tracking presidents with YouGov, Trump hit the lowest mark with a net approval rating of -25.
25 years covers exactly four presidents. YouGov is primarily doing internet surveys. Headline gore is business as usual.
The Economist reported. “Our forecasting model says the Democrats have a nine-in-ten chance of winning control of the House of Representatives. The Senate is a toss-up.”
Half the joke of all these polls and predictions. You'd like to think "Most unpopular President in history" would produce a bigger reactionary impulse than "80% of Congress guaranteed to keep their jobs and maybe 5 Senate seats out of 33 are in play".
So much of the US political scene is in the grip of machine politics and so many of the opposition political establishment is perfectly fine with 90% of what the current President is doing. Turnout will be lackluster, as usual. Most incumbents will sleep soundly, assuming they survived their primaries. And entrenched partisans will turn out to vote straight ticket, because they're trapped in a media echo chamber that reiterates all the same beliefs they've been fed since Reagan.
The only real material difference in politics seems to boil down to "Are you angry that a Cheeto is in the White House?"
Nepo-baby-con-man-pedo-protector-diaper-shitting-delusional-egomaniacal-white-suprematist-lapdog-of-putin-and-Israel orange man Donald J Trump, president of the United States is unpopular????
Color me shocked! Every Good American should be praying daily to Ronald McDonald, our lord & savior, to hold off the inevitable consequences of a trash diet & colesterol-jammed arteries until the Unimpeachable Don completes the lords work here in America, client-state and appointed defender of the holy land of Bibis genocidal Israel
I'm honestly surprised
He's the dumbliest president we've ever had. And that's dumb, with a B, most people don't know that..
Most people don't know about the "liest" part either but it's true.