Gimpy wrote:

traderdave wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

thephan wrote:If you like that 36% approval rating, you will hate Trump’s recent 84 percent job approval rating among Republicans from Gallup. There are more ugly numbers from the specific questions as you can review here in this article about why impeachment is unlikely at best.

That number is hard to get my head around, but it also serves as a reminder that I live in a bubble.

Only saw it mentioned in a Twitter notification/haven't dug into the poll numbers, but Trump is apparently losing support on the higher limits. That means, there was a drop off from those who "strongly support" to just "support." (Or whatever terminology the poll used... I'll try and find the tweet again).

https://twitter.com/nickgourevitch/status/863023097594748928

Intensity of support is eroding. In general you're not gonna go from strongly supporting someone to opposing them. There is a transition to soft support before you move to opposition.

And also with all public opinion stuff it's always worth remembering most people don't spend all day on Twitter or following the news. They catch snippets here and there talking to friends or coworkers or flipping between NCIS and Real Housewives of wherever. It takes time to erode previously held beliefs, and even more time if you're not actively consuming news that might cause you to update your opinions.

Interesting. I would've thought Trump supporters were more of the Swamp People or Storage Wars types.

I'd bet many in Trump's base watch an awful lot of CBS

thephan wrote:@TraderDave... you have any advanced age parents who grew up outside of the city influence? My in laws punctuate their Fox News exclusively with NCIS, Blue Bloods, John Wayne movies. If you could make a merged channel that had those 4 items you could own inland, central Florida.

Gimpy wrote:I'm pretty sure the CBS audience tends to skew older

jerseyhoya wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

thephan wrote:If you like that 36% approval rating, you will hate Trump’s recent 84 percent job approval rating among Republicans from Gallup. There are more ugly numbers from the specific questions as you can review here in this article about why impeachment is unlikely at best.

That number is hard to get my head around, but it also serves as a reminder that I live in a bubble.

Only saw it mentioned in a Twitter notification/haven't dug into the poll numbers, but Trump is apparently losing support on the higher limits. That means, there was a drop off from those who "strongly support" to just "support." (Or whatever terminology the poll used... I'll try and find the tweet again).

https://twitter.com/nickgourevitch/status/863023097594748928

Intensity of support is eroding. In general you're not gonna go from strongly supporting someone to opposing them. There is a transition to soft support before you move to opposition.

And also with all public opinion stuff it's always worth remembering most people don't spend all day on Twitter or following the news. They catch snippets here and there talking to friends or coworkers or flipping between NCIS and Real Housewives of wherever. It takes time to erode previously held beliefs, and even more time if you're not actively consuming news that might cause you to update your opinions.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:
No Matlock?

slugsrbad wrote:Thank you for the find. Question, and it may be obvious but escapes me, why does the sum of the two approval columns exceed 100%? Is the strongly approve respondents baked into the approve respondents?

thephan wrote:Spicier is not offering any comment about the president recording people in the Oval.

Woody wrote:

thephan wrote:Spicier is not offering any comment about the president recording people in the Oval.

this is unreal. the answer to that question, regardless of the truth, is "no." and they can't even get that right

jerseyhoya wrote:

Woody wrote:

thephan wrote:Spicier is not offering any comment about the president recording people in the Oval.

this is unreal. the answer to that question, regardless of the truth, is "no." and they can't even get that right

All of a sudden Spicer is concerned about lying?

JUburton wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-issues-sweeping-new-criminal-charging-policy/2017/05/11/4752bd42-3697-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sessions-7a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.52f6329f73c8

why jeff sessions was/is/always will be the most dangerous cabinet member. easy to lose sight of the fact that he was basically a no power senator from a bygone era until he put on that fucking maga hat.