Governors get better marks for handling outbreak than Trump, poll finds
Source: Washington Post
The nations governors are getting far better marks for their handling of the coronavirus outbreak than President Trump, according to a new Monmouth University poll.
Fifty percent of Americans say Trump has done a good job handling the crisis, compared with 45 percent who say he has done a bad job.
But that assessment pales in comparison with how Americans view the response of their governors. Seventy-two percent of the public says their states governor has done a good job, compared with 18 percent who say their governor is doing a bad job.
Positive reviews for governors are fairly consistent regardless of how widespread the outbreak is in the various states, according to Monmouth.
Trumps approval breaks sharply along partisan lines.
Eighty-nine percent of Republicans say hes doing a good job handling the outbreak, while just 19 percent of Democrats agree. Among independents, 48 percent say Trump is doing a good job.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/23/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-QVXWHWEC45DHVPGBDY3UEXGDCQ
89% of republicans and 48% of Independents think Trump is doing a good job?
That's almost unfathomable to me.
Wait until reality hits them all in the face. No sector of society is going to be untouched by this pandemic.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,755 posts)That's the important number. It's a slippery one, but here's some recent (02/28/20) data:
There are still way more registered Democrats; 39.66 percent of voters are registered with that party.
89% of 28.87% is 25.69% of all voters who registered with a party. Add the 48% of independents (13.9%) and you still have only 39.61%, not enough to win an election. That's consistent with the +/- 40% hard core MAGAts we see in most polls.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)this virus needs to cleanse the earth on humanity!
riversedge
(70,249 posts)riversedge
(70,249 posts)damn. guess I live in my own bubble. This is shocking, that so many think trump is doing a good job.
yes, I find it shocking.
................Fifty percent of Americans say Trump has done a good job handling the crisis, compared with 45 percent who say he has done a bad job.