Can someone explain how his approval rating matters even a little?
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, VOTE!!
These polls are meaningless, please, for the love of god, fucking VOTE
Newest low so far.
“Unnamed democratic opponent” will perform better against Trump than any actual candidate the DNC eventually choose to excrete onto the podium.
Doesn’t matter.
They are very clearly open to cheating.
Which means we have to show up in larger numbers to offset the cheating.
Stop [fill in the blank] and go vote when the time comes. No excuses.
It never goes below his 30% of cultists it seems.
I’m ao sick of this headline. It’s been hitting a new low every week for the past 2 years. You’d think it was at 0 by now, if you were to believe this bullshit headline.
how can number go down for 2 whole years and not be 0 yet???
Nate Silver’s poll aggregator also has him at a new low. The headline is accurate. Perhaps you misunderstood it? 0% approval isn’t a thing. No reasonable person would read the headline that way
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
Yeah these and the constant “health concerns” are ridiculous
Just 36 percent of likely voters said that they approved of Mr. Trump’s performance, while 59 percent said that they disapproved.
That’s still more than 1 out of 3. Still wayyyyy too high.
But that’s at the Bush line (or the Dick line) or the Sarah Palin floor…unless something really systemic changes in this country, we are probably stuck with about that percentage of Americans being just that fucking terrible and/or stupid to support conservatives.
The lowest I’ve seen was 33%. Like literally, 1/3 is the floor.
1/3+ of the people in this country are awful people, and even after Trump is gone we’re supposed to just live side by side with them?
NDP in Canada became the official opposition in Canada under Jack Layton. Some percentage of people just are drawn to decisiveness, and the dem establishment is just not that.
My point is the floor is lower than 1/3, dems just don’t put up leaders who can crack it. Real floor is probably around 1/4
That was one of the most corrupt moments in Canadian politics. The NDP popularity was 100% due to his personal appeal. He knew that he was dying and would never sit as opposition leader for any amount of time, but he kept it secret and let people vote for him.
Real floor is probably around 1/4
Based on literally nothing but vibes.
Half-right: South Park,but more recently Alberta separatism.
Some people seem to think he is on the ballot this election too, how sad :(
He literally told his base to vote like he is. We should all make sure everyone gets that message, because Trump is deeply unpopular
He’s names not there, but his policies are, and if the congress turns blue, he could be removed from office after his third impeachment.
Removing him from office is a fantasy.
You would need 67 senators to vote in favor. Current polling suggests 52 Democrat senators is the most likely outcome
Where would you get the other ~15 votes?
Keep pushing. Get out and vote. That margin isn’t wide enough.
Imagine the message it would send if we voted every single Republican out of office this year. Every last one of them that’s up for election.
They would have just enough Senators to impeach and remove Trump if that happened.
Inevitably, at least one Dem would vote against it.
We all know that’s Fetterman. He swung hard to the right after that stroke
Schumer and Jeffries can’t let dems win even if they win. Their job is to lead the minority party and that’s what they will continue to do.
I filled out my ballot over a week ago. Two more days until polling locations open in my town, and I will be among the first in line. (It’s a mail-in ballot but I am not taking any chances with everything going on. I need to see evidence of my vote being counted.)
In my town, there is a dropbox at the county building. I dropped my ballot carefully in there last Tuesday.
Too big to rig!
41% of the surveyed would still vote for this madness and 8% are undecided or too embarrassed to admit how they would vote. 49-51 with a margin of error is not a winning split, it’s a deadlock at best. If you want change, change requires action and the simplest action you can take is voting. This isn’t a high obstacle or a difficult choice.
It’s not 0% approval, which is the only number that matters.
It’s one thing for a person to say something this dumb, but who are the 26+ other people who upvoted it???
Really? It doesn’t matter unless approval is 0%? Something that has literally never happened and is essentially impossible?
Literally not true but ok.
It will never be 0% approval.
Even if you somehow got rid of all the fucking Nazis out there, there’s still the ‘lizardman constant’, some small percentage of people who either didn’t understand the poll, are lazy and giving random answers to just get through the poll as fast as possible, or are giving crazy answers just for shits and giggles.
Of course not but one can hope.
This stance is impressively insane. How did you get to this?
Sorry if this is obtuse. Trump has been polled for at least 10 years. Corporate media often points to the polls as a bad sign. Then Trump defies the polls and the pollster goes whoops and assumes next time the poll will be correct. But it never is. Trump has so often defied polls I’m surprised it’s not a meme. Anyway. I realize the number is never going to be 0 because some people are so fanatical they need to be deradicalized. Those people will always support Trump and they’ll also support the next snake oil salesman.
Fake news. USA loves him. This is nonsense to keep the left in line and “hoping” things will “get better at the midterm”
Fake news. USA loves him.
Never been here, huh?
Never been to a red state, huh?
I live in Missouri and work in Oklahoma. People have gotten real quiet over the last year.
They had 10 years to be quiet. They deserve whatever they get
I agree, but that’s not what we were talking about.
Exactly. Let’s just change the topic to an important one. What’s your favorite modern jazz band?
Modern jazz? What’s the band that did the music on Cowboy Bebop? Seatbelt?
I don’t know a lot of modern jazz, but I’ll rock out to Cab Calloway.
Things will almost certainly get better after the midterms. The question is how much better…
Currently, Republicans control everything. Supreme Court, Presidency, both houses of Congress. But it’s practically already written in stone that Dems will retake control of the House in the midterms, giving them at least control over half of Congress. And as long as they’ve got some semblance of a spine, they can use that to slow down and obstruct the Trump regime, making them less powerful and less effective at getting what they want. That’s basically the minimum we can expect out of the midterms. (And since the House has almost exclusive control over the budget, if the Dems actually have the balls to try it, they could cut the Trump regime’s funding entirely until their demands are met.)
But, potentially, it could get better than that. For starters, the higher their margin of control in the House gets, the more they can afford to ignore a few traitorous/spineless Dems and still exert some power/control without having to appease those assholes. It’s also entirely possible that Dems may take control of the Senate, which would give them the ability to deny court appointments and maybe actually get some meaningful legislation passed (though Trump could still veto that legislation unless they get some Republicans on board with it as well). Potentially, a big enough win in the midterms could even make impeachment and conviction/removal a viable option. Not only for Trump himself, but for a lot of his cronies and enablers, including a few Supreme Court justices who could easily be removed under corruption charges.
Is that last part likely to happen? Fuck no. Even if Dems sweep the midterms resoundingly, they won’t have enough of a majority in the Senate to complete an impeachment or pass veto-proof legislation without the cooperation of at least a few Republicans. But who knows? As the Epstein files release law showed, it’s actually possible to get the Republicans on board, sometimes, for some things. And maybe seeing their Trump-enabling brethren take a bloodbath in the prior election will make some of them more willing to stand up to Trump, to distance themselves from him.
No, the midterms absolutely will not ‘fix everything’ or even bring things ‘back to normal’. But they are almost certain to improve the political situation in the US, at least slightly. How much of an improvement we get will largely depend on how decisive the results are.
as long as they’ve got some semblance of a spine
Man, why you gotta dash my hopes like that?
Well, the larger their majority, the more spineless Dems they can afford to have while still getting something meaningful done. But if their margins are thin, it only takes a few spineless/traitorous Dems to ruin everything.
Flipping state houses in the South would also be a huge thing and that isn’t as talked about.
True, true. A lot could also happen at the state level during these midterms … and though the federal stuff gets a lot of press and attention, state-level stuff often has more of an impact on people’s everyday lives.
Congress must immediately begin working to restructure SCOTUS and add at least 5 more justices in November. If they don’t, I have news for you: things won’t be getting better.
Adding more justices won’t have any appreciable effect until Trump is out of office.
Supreme Court justices have to be nominated by the President, then ratified by the Senate. And anyone Trump nominates would just make the problem worse, not better.
If you create 5 new Supreme Court justice seats, the best case scenario is that those seats go unfilled until there’s a Dem in the White House, because the Dem-controlled Senate keeps refusing all of Trump’s nominations. The best case scenario there is that nothing immediately changes.
If you want to address the problems in the Supreme Court, impeachment and removal of problematic justices is a much better way to go. That can take effect and rebalance the Court immediately, without needing any cooperation from the President. A few of them already have public information that paints them as blatantly guilty of accepting bribes, which is reason enough for removal. Also, every single one of them that voted to abolish Roe v. Wade lied about their intentions of doing so in their Senate confirmation hearings, which were taken under oath. Lying under oath during a Senate hearing is also a perfectly valid cause for impeachment and removal.
The trouble is in getting enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove, after the House votes to impeach. Even the best case midterm scenario for the Dems doesn’t give them enough Senate seats to have that much of a supermajority on their own. Even in the best case, they’ll still have to get at least a few Republicans on their side in order to complete these impeachments and actually make a difference.
