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Trump is FINISHED!! Now just 13% of the public like the direction of the country! (Original Post) ElementaryPenguin Aug 2020 OP
Kanye will save him. dchill Aug 2020 #1
That wailing goat is not a worry. we can do it Aug 2020 #5
I'd like to see Kanye come in second. nt Ilsa Aug 2020 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2020 #2
But he and his rethug governors are going to try to suppress voting like never before. kimbutgar Aug 2020 #3
I keep hearing about the terrible polls for Trump but... Kablooie Aug 2020 #4
Problem With The Poll In The OP ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #7
Don't be scared of the 41.4% Awsi Dooger Aug 2020 #10
no, he is not finished RazzleCat Aug 2020 #6
But Trump's supporters don't blame him for any of the problems. Mariana Aug 2020 #8
Finish him! BootinUp Aug 2020 #11

Response to ElementaryPenguin (Original post)

kimbutgar

(20,876 posts)
3. But he and his rethug governors are going to try to suppress voting like never before.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:12 PM
Aug 2020

We have to treat voting in November as a life or death decision and kick that fat orange anus to the curb in a historical tsunami of epic proportions.

Make a plan, get registered, vote early and physically turn in your vote or do early voting. And also beware of those Putin hackable machines. Find out ahead of time how you will vote, ie a machine ( hackable) or paper Ballot where you fill in bubble and optical scan them. I believe they had a game plan to manipulate the votes via those machines. And we should have a people vote box where after you vote physically you can write in your vote and deposit it and “let the people vote”. Outside the election offices.

Kablooie

(18,571 posts)
4. I keep hearing about the terrible polls for Trump but...
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:20 PM
Aug 2020

on fivethirtyeight.com, which averages and weights all national polls, he is consistently above 40%.
Currently at 41.4%

I believe this is more reliable than one single poll taken by itself so don't go dancing in the streets yet.
If he retains 40% along with with voter suppression, foreign meddling, out right criminal cheating and 2.5 months afterwards to fight it with his Republican Senate still in power, he still has a chance to keep the presidency.

Beware of becoming complacent.

ProfessorGAC

(64,419 posts)
7. Problem With The Poll In The OP
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:41 PM
Aug 2020

Of your 40%, 27% could be those saying the country is going in the wrong direction.
Unprecedented deficits, rising debt, BLM getting deserved attention, traitor statues coming down, PINO behind in the polls, media taking the flamethrower to PINO & his minions, R senators disapproving of troops in the streets...
To them, that's a bad direction for the country.
But, they still approve of PINO.
The poll seems so vague, I'm not sure what it really means.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
10. Don't be scared of the 41.4%
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:24 PM
Aug 2020

Trump approval was always going to move back upward. I didn't mind pointing that out a few weeks ago. We had too many threads here insisting the approval would plummet to 35% or even 30%. That is not the real world and a ghastly way to think. By far the worst analysts and forecasters are ignorant of the applicable math and keep shoving an extreme even further in the same direction.

It's no different than a power rating in sports. When a team has one or two outlier results the power rating doesn't change much. It might shift 2 or 3 points. But public opinion wants to move it 10 or 20 points. That's how out of the blue you'll hear, "That team sucks," or "That team is playing great." Meanwhile nothing has changed. It is still a mediocre team that had one or two mostly meaningless outcomes.

Trump's power rating has been in the low 40s for a long time. If not for coronavirus and George Floyd it would be 45 and climbing. It was 44 in early March.

RazzleCat

(732 posts)
6. no, he is not finished
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:38 PM
Aug 2020

until his supporters can only donate to his conviction appeal fund, and his only form of communication is from that attorney.

Mariana

(14,849 posts)
8. But Trump's supporters don't blame him for any of the problems.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:14 PM
Aug 2020

Seriously, he can do no wrong. He's a victim and everything is someone else's fault - Speaker Pelosi, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Dr. Fauci, Jared, the Democrat [sic] Party, the media, the RINO's, the CDC, the Deep State, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

That's why his approval ratings remain so high, even as the country disintegrates.

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