Donald Trump has already set a record for being the most unpopular new president since the invention of telephone polling. But I don't think job approval is the poll number Trump should be most worried about.
If I were him, I'd be worrying about the question the Quinnipiac University poll was asking about my leadership skills.
In a new Quinnipiac survey, out on Wednesday, only 42% of voters said they think Trump is a good leader, and 55% said he's not.
Trump's big thing is supposed to be leadership — he's the business guy, he hires the best people, and he knows how to shake things up in Washington and make America great again. Right?
In November, shortly after the election, 56% of respondents told Quinnipiac they thought Trump was a good leader, and only 38% said he wasn't. That's not too shabby for a guy who didn't even get the most votes.
But as Trump started actually doing stuff — running a transition, hiring people, issuing half-baked executive orders, firing his national security adviser after less than a month — the share of Americans willing to call him a good leader has steadily declined.
From 56% in November, it went to 49% in January, 47% earlier this month — and now 42%, or about 4 points less than his share of the popular vote.
In polling, you often analyze a question by measuring the difference between the share of respondents that gives the positive answer and the share that gives the negative one. By this measure, Trump was at plus-18 on the "good leader" question in November, and now he's at minus-13, a decline of 31 points in three months.
My neighbor, a Trump voter said she liked Trump because he's a good businessman. The truth is, he's not a good businessman considering all the failures and bankruptcies he's had. Good businessmen don't go BK! When you go BK, the people who trusted you and loaned you money for your business venture don't get their money back. It's really that simple. That's what bankruptcy is, it's a means of "protecting" you from the people and agencies that gave you money to help you start a business. They have a right to expect to get their money back. Trump is a deadbeat who hides behind the laws designed to protect people from predatory lenders, not repeat offenders like him .
Show me where the hate is in my thread. I was just acting as a messenger and offering my opinion and a bit of education to the misguided people who voted for this guy.
ooby_dooby: Show me where the hate is in my thread. I was just acting as a messenger and offering my opinion and a bit of education to the misguided people who voted for this guy.
Let not your heart be troubled OOOby by the counter of the opposing side. As the ole saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to drink... Trump supporters are no different than their master Trump, who can't defend his own words without blaming others, name calling, calling all news fake news when reports are based on tapes of his own words and behavior, or insulting others for his OWN failure and incompetencies. Its easier that way. Its a safe personality pattern and mode of a person's expressions as not to show they inner insecurities, and inability to accept being wrong. Yet, all along they are showing how insecure he//she really is, forever learning but never coming to an understanding or knowledge of what he/she has learnt. We can only warn them and try to educate them, it is their choice to receive or reject.
These are they who believe the lie and drink the Trump kool-aid, and will not listen to reason or truth, they need a leader who mirrors their own inner insecurities, and they only know alternative facts, which as we all know are lies. They are delusional... and when the mess hits the fan and really starts smelling, they are the same ones who will disappear from saying anything , and/or will try to spin by saying they knew such 'n such would happen or that Trump was such 'n such, but just didn't say anything.
Truth is always painful, is like having open heart surgery without medication to deaden the pain, truth is light into darkness, which the EYES have problems receiving. When Trump hits the ground in his great fall, as we all will see in due season, then, and only then will these supporters of his come into the light. Right now they are feeling good inside living in darkness, and this is how darkness makes a person feel because light shine the truth on all that is wrong, and people don't like the truth.
TRUMP NOT ONLY HAS A PROBLEM...TRUMP HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEMS AND IS IN POSSIBLE IMPEACHMENT CONSIDERATION AND TROUBLE! His staff is falling apart! Hated by world leaders including the tyrant leaders, people in the US, and people around the world ... now that's REAL BAD NEWS AND SPEAKS AGAINST TRUMP .. BIGLY
ooby_dooby: Show me where the hate is in my thread. I was just acting as a messenger and offering my opinion and a bit of education to the misguided people who voted for this guy.
One question. You say you're a messenger, okay, well then...who hired you to deliver it? No need to answer. We know who Soros is.
See, the problem we're facing here is a deliberate division of the people by two political parties, and one party who could care less about the people being on a united front. You know the one, its first initial begins with Democrat.
Game over, Oobs. Only the brainwashed people (or as you call them, "misguided people") are buying into the Democrat propaganda while the rest of Americans are busy cleaning up the mess from the last POTUS' charade.
Of course you're more than welcome to join in and be a Patriot of your country, or you can continue with those deliberate acts of division and burning of our country's flag.
I prefer to be a patriotic American, not any political party puppet.
____________________ If I were him, I ' d be worrying about the question the Quinnipiac University poll was asking about my leadership skills . In a new Quinnipiac survey , out on Wednesday , only 42% of voters said they think Trump is a good leader , and 55 % said he ' s not . ____________________
Ah, the polls. Seems some have already forgot how wrong they were in predicting the Nov 8th outcome. The insanity of liberals .....doing the same shlt and expecting different results.....geniuses, they ain't.
____________________ He hides behind "alternative facts," and lost the election badly. He was appointed , not elected. ____________________
El-Oh-El....you should really start thinking about getting back "on the grid".....you're currently "off the reservation" with that amount of spin.
But it's good to see Melt Day #107 is in full effect for the Trump haters lol.
ooby_dooby: Show me where the hate is in my thread. I was just acting as a messenger and offering my opinion and a bit of education to the misguided people who voted for this guy.
Regardless of what's happened in the past, I'd like to see the libs recognize Trump as potus and unite and move on.
The President-elect won the election with less than 40% of the popular vote but had the majority of electoral votes. The Republican Party had put forth a candidate to win several crucial states that could swing the electoral college. The election was a bitter one with the Democratic Party fractured between two candidates. The incoming President received so many death threats that he chose to arrive in Washington in secrecy. The security for the inauguration was the tightest ever with troops stationed on buildings throughout the day. This was an unprecedented amount of protection for any President-elect. Many members of Congress chose not to attend the ceremony.
Despite all this....... Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as our 16th president on March 4, 1861.
Conrad73: The President-elect won the election with less than 40% of the popular vote but had the majority of electoral votes. The Republican Party had put forth a candidate to win several crucial states that could swing the electoral college. The election was a bitter one with the Democratic Party fractured between two candidates. The incoming President received so many death threats that he chose to arrive in Washington in secrecy. The security for the inauguration was the tightest ever with troops stationed on buildings throughout the day. This was an unprecedented amount of protection for any President-elect. Many members of Congress chose not to attend the ceremony.
Despite all this....... Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as our 16th president on March 4, 1861.
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Donald Trump has already set a record for being the most unpopular new president since the invention of telephone polling. But I don't think job approval is the poll number Trump should be most worried about.
If I were him, I'd be worrying about the question the Quinnipiac University poll was asking about my leadership skills.
In a new Quinnipiac survey, out on Wednesday, only 42% of voters said they think Trump is a good leader, and 55% said he's not.
Trump's big thing is supposed to be leadership — he's the business guy, he hires the best people, and he knows how to shake things up in Washington and make America great again. Right?
In November, shortly after the election, 56% of respondents told Quinnipiac they thought Trump was a good leader, and only 38% said he wasn't. That's not too shabby for a guy who didn't even get the most votes.
But as Trump started actually doing stuff — running a transition, hiring people, issuing half-baked executive orders, firing his national security adviser after less than a month — the share of Americans willing to call him a good leader has steadily declined.
From 56% in November, it went to 49% in January, 47% earlier this month — and now 42%, or about 4 points less than his share of the popular vote.
In polling, you often analyze a question by measuring the difference between the share of respondents that gives the positive answer and the share that gives the negative one. By this measure, Trump was at plus-18 on the "good leader" question in November, and now he's at minus-13, a decline of 31 points in three months.
My neighbor, a Trump voter said she liked Trump because he's a good businessman. The truth is, he's not a good businessman considering all the failures and bankruptcies he's had. Good businessmen don't go BK!
When you go BK, the people who trusted you and loaned you money for your business venture don't get their money back.
It's really that simple. That's what bankruptcy is, it's a means of "protecting" you from the people and agencies that gave you money to help you start a business. They have a right to expect to get their money back. Trump is a deadbeat who hides behind the laws designed to protect people from predatory lenders, not repeat offenders like him .