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In reply to the discussion: Trump is at only 25% approval among independents, according to yesterday Reuters/Ipsos poll. [View all]Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)11. Don't pay attention to the crowd insisting lower and lower
My goal is to keep the 538 number at 42% or lower on election day. That is a realistic goal. The ones asserting 30 or 35% don't know what they are talking about.
Republicans are never going to bail on Trump and Hispanics always have unusual loyalty to the incumbent. Those two factors alone prevent a drop. The numbers were saw a week or two ago were likely the bottom.
In particular, the occasional thread here with an anecdote of a Republican who voted Trump 2016 and now is switching to Biden are 100% meaningless. There are threads like that every cycle. Then the identical percentages show up in the exit poll.
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Trump is at only 25% approval among independents, according to yesterday Reuters/Ipsos poll. [View all]
highplainsdem
Jul 2020
OP
Well....his numbers Were going down, consistently. Then, inexplicably
Laura PourMeADrink
Jul 2020
#17
And with schools opening, the virus isn't going to get better between now and the election
Quixote1818
Jul 2020
#13
For many years I was registered independent, but I voted blue in every election
FakeNoose
Jul 2020
#16
I think some southern rednecks never got around to changing their parties.
Lucky Luciano
Aug 2020
#39
And remember that among Independents a certain percentage are pretty much Republicans or Democrats
JI7
Aug 2020
#24
I imagine the Obama voters who voted fro him in '16 would call themselves "Independent"
oldsoftie
Aug 2020
#34
The "independent" label is SO PHONY! What complete FRAUDS! If they're for Trump...
NurseJackie
Aug 2020
#32