No, Trumps approval among black Americans hasnt doubled

[Gothmog]

From the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/16/no-trumps-approval-among-black-americans-hasnt-doubled/?utm_term=.86897a027534

Any objective observer who is at all familiar with poll numbers would see Munro’s article for what it is. Then there’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade.

On Tuesday morning’s “Fox and Friends,” the hosts were discussing a survey showing that most 2017 coverage of Trump’s presidency was negative. Kilmeade interjected with some good news.

“Believe it or not,” he said, “through all this negative coverage, they did a survey of 600,000 people about how black America views this president. His numbers have actually doubled in approval. It’s still low, it’s around 25 percent, but it’s doubled since the election.”

Okay. So. First of all, they didn’t do a survey of 600,000 black Americans. Second of all, Kilmeade clearly thinks that saying “600,000” adds heft to the results, which, as we noted above, it doesn’t. Third, Trump’s approval numbers haven’t doubled, for the reasons above — and then some.

Approval numbers necessarily start only when a president takes office; after all, how are you going to evaluate the job performance of someone who doesn’t yet hold a job? Gallup has asked Americans their views of Trump’s job as president since his first week in office, allowing us to compare approval ratings among black Americans from the earliest point to the most recently available ratings (through the end of 2017).

Trump’s approval among black Americans fell nine points from January to December. Rather than doubling, his approval rating among those Americans was actually more than cut in half, dropping from 15 percent to 6 percent.

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[lunasun]

1. Horrifying the number of whites that approve. Esp. If you are not!

Nobody should believe Fox News figures , quotes , or fictitious focus groups
Horrifying how many swear by Fox too.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Please understand this.

The real questionable number I spotted was from Gallup. 6%,wow,that tells me the question was structured to get a positive response.

If anyone here has ever done polling,they understand what I am saying.

[hlthe2b]

3. But doesn't zero x 2 zero?

[uponit7771]

4. The overall damn tracks the white approval ... hmmmm. Who are the polling?

[Doodley]

5. I believe that many of the blacks who support Trump are racist.

[Gothmog]

6. Trump tweeted his black approval rating has doubled. It hasn't.

This trump lie die not last lone https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/trump-tweeted-his-black-approval-rating-has-doubled-it-hasnt/ar-AAuMDMZ?ocid=sf

President Donald Trump bragged on Twitter that his approval rating with black Americans has doubled. It hasn't.

Only 15% of black Americans said they approved of Trump's job performance in the days following his inauguration last January — and it's only gone downhill from there. In the most recent Gallup weekly numbers, only 6% of black Americans said they approved of the President's job performance.

The most recent CNN polling, from December, shows that only 3% of black Americans said they approved of how Trump is handling his job nearly a year into his White House tenure. A whopping 91% said they disapproved.

[Cha]

7. Thanks for this, Gothmog.. no way it could.

[Generic Brad]

8. Sure it has

He folded Ben Carson in half.

[Nevernose]

9. Maybe now there will be TWO black guys

Standing behind Trump at the never ending campaign rallies.

[Gothmog]

10. Trump is almost right. Hell get 95 percent of black voters voting against him.

This makes me smile https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/19/trump-is-almost-right-hell-get-95-percent-of-black-voters-voting-against-him/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.8f251492128c

In 2016, candidate Donald Trump declared that if he became president, “at the end of four years,” when he ran for reelection, “I guarantee you that I will get over 95 percent of the African American vote.”

Given his performance to date, he’ll likely need to add this small corrective: “to vote against me.”

Last week, The Washington Post reported that Trump had referred to nations in Africa as “shithole countries,” contrasting immigrants from that continent, and from Haiti, with what he presumably sees as more desirable immigrants from countries such as Norway. Then on Monday, he appeared to use Martin Luther King Jr. Day for damage control, lauding King’s dream of “a world where people are judged by who they are, not how they look or where they come from” in his weekly address.

On Tuesday, Trump patted himself on the back, tweeting that recent poll results showed “Trump approval ratings with Black Americans has doubled.” But as The Post’s Philip Bump explained, that’s inaccurate. Rather, he has a 4 percent approval rating among black voters in a new Quinnipiac poll and, according to Gallup, has tumbled from 15 percent approval among black voters a year ago to 6 percent now. That’s after being elected with 8 percent of the black vote.....

So far, the Trump presidency has helped drive black support for Democratic candidates in Virginia’s gubernatorial race and Alabama’s senatorial race — the two races watched nationally for signs of how the politics of Trumpism is playing — and it was evident that black Americans were motivated to turn out in higher than typical numbers to deliver the president high-profile losses.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Well, maybe they meant negative doubling...

alternative doubling?

Oh, I know! His approval among blacks doubled down!