Why do you think other GOP Presidents poll numbers slipped

[edhopper]

when they showed themselves for what they were. GHWB went into the 30%s, his son hit the 20%s after Katrina. Even Reagan went down from Iran/Contra.

But nothing seems to get Trump out of the 40 percentile. Not even the death of close to 100,000 Americans.

What is the explanation?

[mucifer]

1. he sold his soul to the devil

[edhopper]

2. That's ridiculous

he never had a soul.

[mucifer]

4. ya got me there

[samnsara]

3. ...and so did his followers.

[Turbineguy]

5. He's not killing his followers, at least not in large numbers.

And what's more, his followers like who he's killing.

[Celerity]

20. +10000000000000000

[Jarqui]

6. FOX News & corrupt pollsters like Rasmussen

explains some of it

Widespread ignorance explains another part of it

[Polybius]

22. Possibly landlines too

CNN poll today has him at 46%. I know they are not right-wing, but at the same time I don't believe he's at 46%. It's got to be landline users, who lean conservative.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. it is a revenge cult

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. A former boss (who I bet voted for Trump) told me...

... years ago that he lost all respect for Bush Sr. after he gave a speech that expressed empathy and compassion for all people.

I don't even recall the speech he cited now, but the fact that it bothered him told me a LOT about that asshole.

[unblock]

9. the media has gotten worse and worse

after katrina, the media didn't give shrub much positive coverage, or really much coverage at all. they didn't lambaste him as much as i would have liked, but they didn't continue to prop him up.

donnie *still* gets a ton of media attention. granted, he's an incumbent running for re-election in an election year, but, as with 2016, the coverage is *heavily* tilted in favor of the republican candidate. just look at the hours of airtime donnie gets vs. what biden gets. it's actually even worse than the little hillary got, if you can believe that.

fortunately, donnie's been a train wreck and couldn't make the simple and obvious political statements that would have turned his image around, and instead he just dug himself a hole and kept digging. but the media gave him every opportunity to create a new image as the uniting leader in a crisis.

still, no such thing as bad press, someone once said, so as long as they continue to spell his name right, there will continue to be a chunk of america that thinks if he's on the news all the time, he must be good....

[sop]

10. They didn't have FOX News.

[Demsrule86]

11. Trump is below 40% in recent polls.

[edhopper]

16. no, he's not

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[Polybius]

18. No he isn't

He's averaging around 45%.

[stillcool]

12. create perception, create reality

[TlalocW]

13. Because the others

Were capable of acting like adults to varying degrees. There was some point where each one, no matter what kind of dick they truly were, put a stopper on it. Trump doesn't have that, and it appeals to the lizard-brained out there that see his antics as owning the libs. As long as he's owning the libs, it doesn't matter because it fuels their hate-boners, which is the only kind of "joy" they're capable of feeling.

TlalocW

[lpbk2713]

14. Data gathering.

I don't trust it. I'm sure it can be manipulated.

[Midnight Writer]

15. Psychological targeting of voters using saturation media.

It's no longer about issues, policies or performance.

It is about playing to people's personality disorders.

People may change their minds, but they rarely change their personalities.

[CTyankee]

21. That makes sense. My son in law is a political analyst and has a lot to say about this.

He does professional polling in MA.

[Polybius]

17. I never understood why GHWB went into the low 30's (even high 20's in some polls)

I mean the only issue he was unpopular with in 1992 was the economy. Sure, he wasn't a good president but he wasn't a 30% president either. His lowest point was even lower than W's lowest point. He had an incredible 60% drop. Young teenage Xers literally hated him in 1992.

[Polybius]

19. He's good at one thing, whether we give him credit for it or not

He can fire up a crowd and has a knack for telling people exactly what they want to hear. Bush Sr. and Jr. did not have any crowd-speaking talent whatsoever.

[ibegurpard]

23. They lost support because they weren't evil enough

The old "RINO" argument. Trump has something for everyone. The supposedly socially liberal aren't socially liberal enough to be appalled by him and they love dismantling government and the "deplorables" are over the moon.