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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 09:56 PM Aug 2017

Support among white voters plummeted

BY TIM MARCIN ON 8/5/17 AT 9:00 AM

... A new poll .. from Quinnipiac .. found .. not only had Trump's approval rating sunk to a new low, but support among key demographics Trump won during the 2016 election — most notably white voters without a college degree — had also dropped off.

Just 33 percent of voters approved of Trump's job performance overall, a sharp decline from 40 percent approval in the Quinnipiac poll at the end of June. Sixty-one percent of voters disapproved of Trump in the latest survey.

... even among white, non-college voters .. the president's approval rating was underwater. Just 43 percent of that demographic approved of Trump's job performance while 50 percent disapproved. In June, 53 percent of white voters without a college degree approved of the president. In the 2016 election, meanwhile, 66 percent of whites with no college degree voted for Trump, according to exit polls ...

http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-support-among-white-voters-plummeted-approval-rating-sunk-646668

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Support among white voters plummeted (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2017 OP
Yeah, but is that because he didn't repeal the AFA or build a wall or... or.... ???? nt LAS14 Aug 2017 #1
AFA? Grassy Knoll Aug 2017 #3
Affordable Care Act. LAS14 Aug 2017 #4
This is good news.. yes. it. is. riversedge Aug 2017 #2
Trump isn't keeping his promises. yardwork Aug 2017 #5

yardwork

(61,650 posts)
5. Trump isn't keeping his promises.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 09:11 AM
Aug 2017

He promised that everybody would get their jobs back, that everybody would have great health care (the best), and that crime would disappear.

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