everyone was for Nixon and was proud to announce it, until the Watergate Hearings began revealing the depth and width of the corruption. Then, it was, "I didn't vote for that crook!"

on the Nixon cabal so, I'm guessing it will be 2019 before there's any serious action against Trump.

Bush somehow 'won' the election twice and we kept hearing how Bush was doing great things and everyone opposed to him needed to sit down and shut up or be considered a traitor, but once it changed hands, nobody voted for Bush.

remember those bumper stickers? LOL The only state he lost was MA. and then Nixon shut down our Navy yard. I used to love to see the sailors growing up

To Nixon voters, it was horrible he was caught. It was horrible the press and the Congress went after him. It pissed them off that he let them down...but they couldn't admit they voted for him, because it meant they screwed up. So 3/4 of the people who voted for him told everyone they never voted, even as they were seething with rage that he was caught and had to quit.

Just like all rabid sports fans who can't admit their team is being penalized because the team cheated. It was the ref's fault...not the poor coaching or interference by the boosters, or the fact their team was cheating.

They will still be proud to their bones they voted for the con-man disrupter just to "show them" and piss the elites who are really concerned about governance right off.

Haele

And I'm sure there are also those who may admit voting for him, but won't say they regret it, even though they do.

Is that if the election were held today he would beat Hillary in the popular vote.

Of course, she hasn't been campaigning and that's all he's really done.

is their loyalty and commitment to their group, uber alles as we see.

I believe that a large majority of that bravado 96% do not...really, exactly...regret voting for Rump and only 3 months into his term would vote all over again for him, but I also believe that a good third of them would have to overcome that sick, worried feeling in the middle of the night to do so. They would vote their jerseys, not him.

Small comfort in it, but saying one has confidence and actually having it are very different things. The real encouragement is in knowing that, if 10% nationally of them stayed home in 2018 and 2020 (the real danger for the GOP) and possibly some voted Democrat (as was expected in 2016 pre-Comey and the November social media blizzard), it would change everything.

So the poll says "96 percent of those who supported him in November say they'd do it again today."

Which isn't exactly the same thing as not regretting, since they may regret it to some degree but still vote for him over Hillary.

he is STILL a ignorant asswipe who is a threat to this country, and even many Republicans see this.

They are dug in with the hopes that he will improve to meet their intitial approval, but we all know this is "just throwing good money after bad."

that they made a mistake, even though a part of them now knows their vote for Trump was mistake. This dissonnce produces psychic anxiety and, in an effort to reduce that anxiety, people will reaffirm a bad choie.

Wait until Trump's tinkering with the general macroeocnomic equation leads to 25% unemployment. Then those pro-Trump numbers will collapse.

"Cognitive dissonance" that the rest of us plainly see is blind reverence to the Faux-noise faithful. To those within the cult of disbelief and ignorance towards all other information sources, which Fox has convinced them of, they are receiving daily doses of bias confirmation, cheerleading of every action of the republicans no matter how facepalmingly misguided or evil.
This is a cult that has grabbed power and is holding all our future generation's health hostage to demands to pollute and profiteer.
I've witnessed examples of how no matter how devastatingly the economy crashes, no matter how many lose their homes and livelihoods to republican party "trickle down" bullshit, they'll still tune into f*cking FOX noise from their trailer in the squalor park.
I'm not kidding. I've witnessed this exact level willful ignorance alongside the blatant racism that bemoaned doom and gloom once that black man won the presidency.
There really is something powerfully addictive to the RW media mouthpieces that very few of the addicts will admit to the self-defeating cycle.

These polls might be flawed to all hell, but last month a comprable poll said only 3% admit regret. So maybe he'll lose around 1% of those people a month.

I could live with that, i suppose, even though he is a dangerous psychopath
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-dangerous-mental-illness-yale-psychiatrist-conference-us-president-unfit-james-gartner-a7694316.html

...the number of people will have voted for him the first time.

Hypocrisy and lying to themselves is a hallmark of these kinds of people. And the ones who turn away are the good ones, relatively speaking.

and that there's a steep drop within our own party about this.

We have become too sanguine about our "superiority" to tRump and his party, as we were last Fall. If we don't stop criticizing our outreach effort and start "coming together" to fight back we will lose again. Our margin is too narrow to mess around.

This is clearly an application of system justification theory...

Are we supposed to be surprised? Does this prove anything we didn't already see coming?

They could be wandering through radioactive rubble, still raving about how Trump made America great.

have him walking on water according to them.

AND he's STILL not black, or a woman. He's the new Orange.

"Cognitive dissonance" that the rest of us plainly see is blind reverence to the Faux-noise faithful. To those within the cult of disbelief and ignorance towards all other information sources, which Fox has convinced them of, they are receiving daily doses of bias confirmation, cheerleading of every action of the republicans no matter how facepalmingly misguided or evil.
This is a cult that has grabbed power and is holding all our future generation's health hostage to demands to pollute and profiteer.

Very well stated.

-FTC

an old, dumb white man. Yay America!

when they realize he is going to do the same thing to them as they voted on the rest of the country out of hate.

that high of a percentage. But, I figure they haven't been personally harmed yet. So once that happens, things will change. He's making such a big show of the EO's he signed, yet most folks have no idea what is in them, nor does trump. It just "looks good" to them right now...looks like he's doing something he said he'd do. Even though he's really destroying the world......

People didn't approve of Donald Trump when they voted for him. He's not the most appealing character. I am not sure how much use approval polls are in this case - when you ask about votes, he has gained since the election:

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Of course Hillary voters are going to be a little less supportive...WE LOST.

Ask folks who bet on the Atlanta Falcon's in the Super Bowl this year if they'd "bet for them to win" if the game was played again.

A better question would be to ask; "if you could have voted for President Obama for a 3RD term, would you vote for him over Trump.

Hell, the way this administration has gone so far, I bet if you asked Clinton voters if they would vote for a "Sack-a-Hammers" over Trump, they'd pick the hammers in large numbers.

Once you lose, you lose.

That; "he'd win the election again if it were held today" line is just pure BS ReTrumplican propaganda for two very simple reasons.

FIRST - We aren't having the election again today.

SECOND - People who have had their souls crushed are much less likely to repeat the act that got their souls crushed.

That's like saying; "100 people touched a hot stove...less than 50% of them would do it again"

Worse than the Republicans, worse than Trump?

By focusing just on the Trump numbers, which are BAD, we are missing the overall story:
Only 38% of voters think Trump is in touch with people's concerns. Only 32% of voters think the Republicans are in touch with people's concerns.

And people are quoting and reading stats like that and going "Oh, boy! We've got it made. 2018 here we come! The Republicans are DOOMED."

But only 28% of voters think that the Democrats are in touch with people's concerns! The worst of the three!! In 2014 only 48% of voters thought the Dems were out of touch. In this poll. 67% thought the Dems were out of touch! We have not yet got ourselves on a stable path to success post-election.

We are not helping ourselves by trying to make 2018 a referendum on Trump at this time. People don't like him and don't approve of him - and they dislike the other players even more. We can only afford to do that after we've convinced a lot more people that we are listening to them and can help them.

The media has repeatedly described the Democratic Party as "out of touch". Started with Limbaugh and "Hate Radio" and was perpetuated by mainstream media as a way to combat the "liberal bias" canard.

Hillary and Bill Clinton, President Obama and Michelle...heck, even Jimmy Carter pretty much came from nothing, but somehow, the guy who "shits in a gold-plated toilet" is a "man of the people".

Democrats, to our detriment, also tend to speak in complete and coherent sentences. We know what "big words" mean and how to pronounce them, how could we NOT be described as "out of touch".

I too enjoy a good beer and hotdog at a baseball game, but until that stops being the standard for who we want to run the most powerful country in the world, the fucking hayseeds are going to be in charge.

People are hesitant to admit they made a mistake and the bigger the mistake, the more they dig in.

You see it in customer satisfaction surveys too. Higher cost cars get higher ratings than lower cost ones. Part of it is because they are genuinely more satisfied, but part of it is because no one wants to admit that they shelled out $80K for a lemon.

except that you can't reason with stupid.

from their vote. That's enough to keep them from regretting their vote.

Too bad our side didn't think it was important.

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That's how many knuckle draggers we have in this country.

The asshole was installed only a few months ago. They have yet to realize the screwing over they have been getting, and will continue to get.

That is what Comey appears to have shifted with his actions at the end of the race. And I have been saying that for months, I didn't just make up that figure today.

Without the last-minute Comey intervention Clinton would have won by 6 points nationally, with 333 electoral votes. And that is still taking into account a late movement towards Trump.

Also, please remember that once people cast a ballot for someone they tend to double down on that action and insist that they wouldn't change their vote. It is human nature. So a 4 point shift is a restrained prediction.

These are not well-meaning patriots who just have honest policy differences with us.

the entire nation is fucked because of this.

They'll plunge steadfastly into the shockwave and radiation poisoning screaming "Make America GREAT Agaaaaaaaaaaa . . . " if it means never EVER ceding truth to "TEH LEFTITS LEEEEBTARDS".

Just like Trump loonies they've gone into hiding knowing just how bad this is already and how bad it can get.

If there is evidence that he colluded with Russia to influence our election, and his supporters still support him...

WHEN CAN THEY BE TRIED FOR TREASON????

Disconcerting to say the least. The question is what ways do people think the Democratic Party is out of touch?

In 2008 we ran on being anti-war, especially wars in the endless string of clusterfucks called the Middle East.

As soon as we won, that whole thing disappeared and we were involved in Libya, Syria, Yemen, multibillion dollar drone strikes basically everywhere. And accomplishing nothing. Just like Bush.

And instead of recognizing this, we grab the pitchforks for any Dem who seems like he/she might have questions about the necessity of our involvement. Notice how everyone got on Tulsi Gabbard's case for suggesting we get all the facts before doubling down on Syria.

since we aren't getting it anyway...

You can't fix stupid.

These people live in Snow globes protected by hate and denial, not Reality. They can't admit their "dear leader" is taking them on the wrong path, just as they can't admit they don't follow their own Holy Book that supposedly gives them moral rules like "Do unto others the way you would have them do unto you" or their own f'n 10 Commandments i.e., "thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods, etc..."
They're so invested in being right, they can't deal with admitting anything is wrong. Because being wrong means losing, means having a weakness. Acknowledging the other team as "equals" means you lose. There is no Tie or mutual benefit on Planet Drumpf. So it is more important to steal a win than play fairly and potentially "lose".

It's more important to destroy the world than not be in control of it.


Haele

Or feel sorry for them when their dear leader screws them over?

Nope. Not wasting my time or sympathy.