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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,026 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2018, 09:41 PM Oct 2018

Poll: Two-Thirds Of Voters Say Trump Is A Factor For Them In The 2018 Midterm Elections

As President Donald Trump goes, so goes the Republican Party. That’s what a new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll released Friday is positing. According to the data, two-thirds of American voters polled say Trump is a factor in how they will vote in the 2018 midterm elections.

While 23 percent of those respondents say the president is at least a minor factor for them come November, a whopping 44 percent say he is a major factor.

This differs pretty significantly from a 2014 poll that found only 47 percent of voters said they considered then-President Barack Obama to be either a major or minor factor in their voting for that year’s midterms.

he poll surveyed 935 adults, 738 of them registered voters, via landline and cell phone from Oct. 21 to 23. The polling occurred prior to the news that mail bombs were sent to CNN and various high-profile Trump critics, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, left-leaning billionaire George Soros, former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-factor-midterms-polling_us_5bd34ce3e4b0d38b588314a9

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Poll: Two-Thirds Of Voters Say Trump Is A Factor For Them In The 2018 Midterm Elections (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2018 OP

I think this is true Bradshaw3 Oct 2018 #1

Trumps gap between "strongly approve" and "strongly disapprove" Zambero Oct 2018 #2

Bradshaw3

(7,522 posts)

1. I think this is true

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 09:46 PM

Oct 2018

From an anecdotal point of view that is what I've seen canvassing and talking to people generally. I know the common wisdom says healthcare or the economy - and they are important to people - are the amin focus of voters but I also believe that the antipathy or at least unease with some toward dump isn't just among those of us here on DU. I may be wrong but I think the exit polls on Nov. 6 will reflect this too.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)

2. Trumps gap between "strongly approve" and "strongly disapprove"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 11:04 PM

Oct 2018

Is running -20% at the moment. A good number to ponder when 2/3 of the electorate are citing Trump as a factor in their midterm voting.

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