White non-college Americans move away from Trump during shutdown

[herding cats]

(CNN) - During the longest government shutdown in US history, President Donald Trump has been losing support among those who may be his strongest supporters -- white Americans who don't have college degrees.

Among this group, only 45% said they approved of the job Trump is doing as President, according to a recent CNN poll conducted by SSRS. That is the lowest level of support among this subgroup by 1 percentage point in CNN's surveys and a dip from a poll conducted in early December, before the partial shutdown, when 54% of whites without college degrees approved of his job as President and 39% disapproved.

The dip is notable since among whites who hold college degrees, Trump's ratings are largely unchanged in the last month and remain sharply negative -- 64% disapprove and 32% approve.

This trend is backed up by a new Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday. Approval for the President remained somewhat stable between its mid-December poll and now among whites without college degrees (down from 56% to 53%), but disapproval increased from 37% to 43%. That is going from a net 19% positive approval to a net 10% for Trump, a 9-point loss.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/white-noncollege-shutdown-polling/index.html

Meanwhile, Trump just keeps on digging his hole deeper.

[gopiscrap]

1. good, about time they woke up

[DetlefK]

2. Meanwhile, people are leaving the Evangelical movement.

Google "Exvangelical"

They are sick and tired how the leaders of the Evangelicals were willing to throw their whole support behind Trump.
They are sick and tired of seeing "Evangelical" become associated with racism and hatred.
The term "Evangelical" itself has become so toxic that evangelical organizations are changing their names.

I've seen an estimate that Evangelicals will no longer be a political force by 2024.

[lindysalsagal]

4. Religious "nones" are the only growing demographic.

Religion is gradually slipping off the planet. It's being replaced by science & technology. Halleluia and amen.

[marylandblue]

5. ironically "evangelical" replaced "fundamentalist"

Because fundamentalism was associated with being too narrow minded. So now they need a new label for the next 40 years.

[dalton99a]

6. Trying to change their spots

[lindysalsagal]

3. Gangsters don't care what anyone thinks of them

Only how they can cheat the system.