How much time might President Trump spend above 50 percent approval?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One of the more remarkable incongruities in American politics is that the United States elected Donald Trump (who ran specifically against the legacy of President Obama) to succeed Obama (who is nearing a 60 percent approval rating). America thinks Obama is doing a great job — and would like the next president to dismantle the work that he did (or so one might think, given Trump’s initial Cabinet picks). This isn’t quite right, of course: Trump lost the popular vote and less than two-thirds of those eligible to vote did so. But, still! Trump won, thanks in part to his ability to consolidate long-wavering Republican support just in time for the election.

Gallup’s survey data, though, suggests that Trump is uncommonly unpopular for a president-elect. That’s in large part because Democrats are particularly sour on him. Only 1 in 10 Democrats view Trump positively, a substantially lower percentage than the number of Republicans who viewed Obama or Bill Clinton positively after their elections — and only a third of the number of Democrats who viewed George W. Bush positively after the contentious 2000 election.

Perhaps more important over the long term, though, is that independents are also unusually iffy about Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/12/how-much-time-might-president-trump-spend-above-50-percent-approval/?tid=hybrid_content_2_na&utm_term=.8675ca805d20

[Wounded Bear]

1. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "He never will"...

at least until he can force/leverage the pollsters to alter their results.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. The article pretty much agrees with you.

[Chasstev365]

3. Before or After he invades Iran unprovoked?

[MFM008]

4. how much time will he spend at 50 below

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[bravenak]

5. None, ever

[KamaAina]

6. 37 seconds?

[unblock]

7. The 18 months immediately following the next reichstag fire

[meadowlander]

13. This.

There will be another 9/11 and no matter how big of an incompetent boob Trump is, he will go to 90% approval ratings and take a while to fall back down again.

[rzemanfl]

8. When he goes to hell, where he belongs, he will be very popular among the

silent majority.

[groundloop]

9. The USA did NOT elect tRump....he's being selected by the archaic Electoral College

Hillary won the election by nearly 3 million votes. tRump is being selected due to the vestiges of a system adapted to appease slave states, and which is still allowing repubs to control Congress.

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

10. and to ensure that the north wouldn't gain more power by allowing women to vote

But honestly this probably sounds like a great concept for Trump voters.

[Warpy]

11. He's going to have to fart flowers to impress the Clinton majority

so I sincerely doubt his numbers will be much good unless he fires up the printing press and hands out thousand dollar bills like parking tickets.

[JDC]

12. Zero point zero