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riversedge

(70,243 posts)
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 09:45 PM Dec 2017

Trump Rating Hits Record Low

Source: monmouth.edu



Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Democrats have 15 point edge in generic House vote



West Long Branch, NJ - Donald Trump's current job approval rating is the lowest registered in the Monmouth University Poll since he took office, with the biggest drop coming from independent women. Most voters think that the president has not been successful at moving his agenda through Congress and feel his decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel will destabilize the Middle East. Monmouth's initial generic House ballot match-up for the 2018 election finds Democrats holding a 15 point advantage over Republicans.

Pres. Trump's current job rating stands at a net negative 32% approve and 56% disapprove. This marks his lowest rating in Monmouth's polling since taking office in January. Prior polls conducted over the course of the past year showed his approval rating ranging from 39% to 43% and his disapproval rating ranging from 46% to 53%.

The decline in Trump's job rating has come much more from women - currently 24% approve to 68% disapprove - than from men - currently 40% to 44%. In September, Trump had a 36%-55% rating among women and a 44%-42% rating among men.

The gender gap in the president's rating crosses party lines. Republican women (67%) are somewhat less likely than Republican men (78%) to give Trump a positive rating. These results are down by 9 points among GOP women since September and by 5 points among GOP men since the fall. The biggest drop has occurred among independent women - just 14% currently approve of Trump's job performance, which is down by 25 points since September. Among independent men, 31% approve of Trump, down 10 points. Democrats' ratings of Trump have held steady at just 8% approval among Democratic men and 7% among Democratic women.
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Other poll results show that only 24% of Americans feel the country is going in the right direction while 66% say it is headed down the wrong track. ....................................

In the foreign policy arena, the president's decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is not all that popular with the American public............................


Read more: https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_US_121317/



How low can he go!!!



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regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
2. For the life of me, I can't understand...
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 10:17 PM
Dec 2017

...how any "independent women" could have voted for him in the first place.

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
8. Right after the election, a major media network (maybe CNN?) interviewed one of them...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 12:43 AM
Dec 2017

Her reason was she was "tired of the constant Clinton scandals", and pointed to the fact that Trump went a couple days without insulting anyone as proof of his potential to handle the job.

It was so ridiculous, it's stuck out in my mind.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
12. Some people who think the Republicans are too left wing call themselves independent
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 06:35 AM
Dec 2017

and they may support him for his anti-Muslim, anti-Mexican rants. Such women probably also think that sexual assault happens to "those other women", and have ways of blaming them for it.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
9. Things are looking good. All the Dems have to do is not make big mistakes...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 01:44 AM
Dec 2017

and pick candidates who can WIN! WIN WIN WIN. It's the name of the game.

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