[davidjay]

Trump told Indiana to draw a new congressional map to give more Republican seats. The Indiana House agreed. The Senate are debating now, with some Republican senators saying they'll vote against. Here's some advice from Trump.

How long can the US citizenry remain supine? Of course the question is how many think Trump is right...

Too many. And it's coming this way.

[Oboogie]

Trump told Indiana to draw a new congressional map to give more Republican seats. The Indiana House agreed. The Senate are debating now, with some Republican senators saying they'll vote against. Here's some advice from Trump.

How long can the US citizenry remain supine? Of course the question is how many think Trump is right...

What exactly do you expect the citizens to do when, at the first sign of dissent, the National Guard will roll into town. I'm thinking this is going to need a coup.

[Boiler]

Doesn’t Trump have something like an 84% approval rating amongst Repugs though?

Meanwhile Congress just sits with its thumbs up its arseholes and does nothing.

[mattomac]

This is very odd reporting

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 81183.html

https://apnorc.org/projects/trumps-appr ... migration/

It seems exactly the same poll

[The Weeping Angel]

This is very odd reporting

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 81183.html

https://apnorc.org/projects/trumps-appr ... migration/

It seems exactly the same poll

His approval ratings are pretty awful despite the impression you might get from our media he isn't popular.

[mattomac]

Yup, I've always suggested going to the source when it comes to polling.

[The Weeping Angel]

Yup, I've always suggested going to the source when it comes to polling.

The journalist G. Elliot Morris has a deep dive into Trump's approval ratings here.

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-th ... popup=true

The title of this article is “How low could Trump’s approval realistically go?” I think I have answered it with the above data, which gives two answers:

First, further incompetence in managing the U.S. economy would turn more Republicans against the president on his handling of the issue, in turn decreasing his approval by between 1 and 4 points.

But a larger drop in Trump’s approval (to the mid-30s) would require broader political problems, or a sustained decrease in his rating among Republicans — regardless of how they feel about the president’s performance on the economy. Another 10-point drop in Trump’s approval with GOP voters would put him at a 33% rating — near his all-time low.

The implications of this piece for Democratic strategy are two-fold. First, considering campaigning on affordability and Trump’s economic mismanagement is a high-leverage way to reach hesitant Trump approvers inside the Republican Party. Remember, there are a lot of self-described Republicans who do not have particularly right-leaning beliefs. Here is the big graphic from my piece “The Hidden Axis” published last month:

[Bones McCoy]