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struggle4progress

(118,285 posts) Sat Mar 2, 2019, 01:57 AM Mar 2019

Approval rating slipping in Midwest

... Of those surveyed, 47 percent of Midwest voters said they approved of Trump's job in office last July, with his highest mark among those voters reaching 54 percent in the months of October and December.

In the latest Hill-HarrisX survey in February that number had slipped to only 40 percent of Midwestern voters saying they approved of the president ...

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/432087-polls-show-trump-taking-a-hit-with-supporter-in-midwest

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Approval rating slipping in Midwest (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2019 OP

Approval softening among GOP, independents struggle4progress Mar 2019 #1

I was wondering what the Independents were thinking. BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #2

Unbelieveable. It should be 10%. WTF is wrong with these people's brains? C Moon Mar 2019 #3

They're either not following day-to-day politics or Lock him up. Mar 2019 #4

It's the not following. It's very easy to tune this stuff out....I know I did it for most of my UniteFightBack Mar 2019 #8

Trump's soybean tariff on China is starting to kick farmers in the ass. nt oasis Mar 2019 #5

Poll taken before the tax returns? Lock him up. Mar 2019 #6

47% is outrageously high for this presidency in perpetual crisis. BlueWI Mar 2019 #7

struggle4progress

(118,285 posts)

1. Approval softening among GOP, independents

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Mar 2, 2019, 01:58 AM

Mar 2019

... The president's approval rating among Republicans sat at 87 percent in July, but has slipped to 79 percent in the latest Hill-HarrisX survey conducted earlier this month.

The president's approval rating among independents has also dropped.

Of those that identified as independent, 44 percent surveyed said they approved of the job Trump was doing in July. That number has declined to 42 percent, according to the same poll conducted earlier this month ...

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/431868-polls-show-trumps-approval-softening-among-gop-independents