Trump's approval rating at its highest since March 2017

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Fivethirtyeight's approval average is currently at +43.3/-52.2, the highest it has been since March 2017.

RCP's approval average is at +44.5/-51.9, the highest it has been since March 2017 except for a week in September of last year.

[mucifer]

1. that's insane

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2. This was always the risk with impeachment (nt)

[gab13by13]

12. Polls are a means for propaganda,

Impeachment does not help Trump, stop repeating polls. I really don't give a sheet what those polls proclaim, Trump's base will always remain at 35 to 40%. Saying that impeachment is helping Trump is like saying that I'm going to put my stubbed toe in a vise to make it feel better.

Also, impeachment is killing Trump, he is not a happy camper. A narcissist needs constant adoration and fluffing, impeaching a narcissist is the worst thing that can happen to him.

[RDANGELO]

3. That's still pretty low for a potus with a decent economy.

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4. It's about where Obama's approval rating was at this point in 2011 (nt)

[W_HAMILTON]

6. We were still recovering from the Great Recession, so, that isn't saying much.

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[W_HAMILTON]

5. He loses reelection with those numbers.

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7. What makes you say that?

We didn't airlift 50K Democratic voters to Michigan or Pennsylvania

[W_HAMILTON]

8. We don't need to. We just need Democrats to turn out and vote like they have been doing since 2016.

I mean, Romney won more votes in Wisconsin than Trump did, for god's sake.

Stop acting like this corrupt criminal that has never even once passed 50% approval is somehow unbeatable -- he's not.

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9. Problem is, those Democrats show up and vote for Trump (nt)

[W_HAMILTON]

10. Yeah, no.

But I'm sure the Republicans thank you for helping them out and trying to depress Democratic turnout -- and before the convention has even been held this time!

If Republicans were half as confident in their own election chances as you are, they wouldn't have just tried to purge hundreds of thousands of voters from the Wisconsin voting rolls.

[RandySF]

11. It's a rally effect and it won't last.

[gab13by13]

13. I've been around a long time,

and I have never been polled. The day that I get polled I will consider believing in polls.

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14. OFFS. That's what Trumpists say

Polls are real. Science is real. The world is round.

[FBaggins]

15. I was with you right up to the last four words

There’s no point bringing your religion into this!

[gab13by13]

17. Yeah polls exist, I will give you that,

I remember when Gallup was considered the king of polls. It got caught rigging its data predicting the 2008 election if I remember correctly. If not 2008 it was for another election.

[smirkymonkey]

21. I'm not buying it either.

I have never been polled in my life - have only lived in liberal strongholds - but my republican sister and her husband w/ a landline get polled all the time. I honestly believe they over-sample republicans. I can't prove it, but I believe it's true.

[maxrandb]

16. It's tiring knocking this shit down, but

Look at 538. To get to that 43.5 number, they include Ratfuck-Mussen that has his "approval" number 5 to 9 percentage points higher than any other polls

I'm seeing so many of these "the sky is falling-his numbers are up" posts that I'm beginning to think the Russian Bot are celebrating Christmas early.

The real story is that, even with Reich Wing skewed polls, they still can't get his numbers above 43.5.

When do polls stop being polls and become propaganda?

[gab13by13]

18. Exactly, spot on.

Trump's approval is going to stay somewhere between 35 and 40%, it's not going to get any higher than that.

Polls are used for propaganda right now. Less than 24 hours after the impeachment verdict I predicted that there would be polling to claim that impeachment is helping Trump. CNN even sent someone to a Trump hot bed in Pa. less than 24 hours after the vote to ask Trumpers if impeachment changed their minds. Breaking news, Trumpers weren't fazed by the impeachment. The MSM could then use the narrative that impeachment is helping Trump in battleground states.

I pay zero attention to polls.

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19. No, every poll is trending up for him, not just Ras

You can't blame a secular trend on a single poll. You know that.

[FBaggins]

20. That might be why you're not doing well at it

You're getting tired.


they include Ratfuck-Mussen that has his "approval" number 5 to 9 percentage points higher than any other polls

They also included one with a -15 spread. Those two polls average about what the overall average says. Also - while Rassmussen clearly leans to the right in their results... they're also the only likely voter poll in the mix. And those tend to favor republicans in most cycles.

they still can't get his numbers above 43.5.

Which happens to be ten points higher than where he was just before the 2016 election.