“Unnamed democratic opponent” will perform better against Trump than any actual candidate the DNC eventually choose to excrete onto the podium.
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Doesn't matter.
They are very clearly open to cheating.
Which means we have to show up in larger numbers to offset the cheating.
Stop [fill in the blank] and go vote when the time comes. No excuses.
I'm ao sick of this headline. It's been hitting a new low every week for the past 2 years. You'd think it was at 0 by now, if you were to believe this bullshit headline.
how can number go down for 2 whole years and not be 0 yet???
Nate Silver's poll aggregator also has him at a new low. The headline is accurate. Perhaps you misunderstood it? 0% approval isn't a thing. No reasonable person would read the headline that way
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
Yeah these and the constant "health concerns" are ridiculous
Just 36 percent of likely voters said that they approved of Mr. Trump’s performance, while 59 percent said that they disapproved.
That's still more than 1 out of 3. Still wayyyyy too high.
But that's at the Bush line (or the Dick line) or the Sarah Palin floor...unless something really systemic changes in this country, we are probably stuck with about that percentage of Americans being just that fucking terrible and/or stupid to support conservatives.
The lowest I've seen was 33%. Like literally, 1/3 is the floor.
1/3+ of the people in this country are awful people, and even after Trump is gone we're supposed to just live side by side with them?
NDP in Canada became the official opposition in Canada under Jack Layton. Some percentage of people just are drawn to decisiveness, and the dem establishment is just not that.
My point is the floor is lower than 1/3, dems just don't put up leaders who can crack it. Real floor is probably around 1/4
That was one of the most corrupt moments in Canadian politics. The NDP popularity was 100% due to his personal appeal. He knew that he was dying and would never sit as opposition leader for any amount of time, but he kept it secret and let people vote for him.
Real floor is probably around 1/4
Based on literally nothing but vibes.
Half-right: South Park,but more recently Alberta separatism.
Some people seem to think he is on the ballot this election too, how sad :(
He literally told his base to vote like he is. We should all make sure everyone gets that message, because Trump is deeply unpopular
He's names not there, but his policies are, and if the congress turns blue, he could be removed from office after his third impeachment.
Removing him from office is a fantasy.
You would need 67 senators to vote in favor. Current polling suggests 52 Democrat senators is the most likely outcome
Where would you get the other ~15 votes?
Keep pushing. Get out and vote. That margin isn't wide enough.
I filled out my ballot over a week ago. Two more days until polling locations open in my town, and I will be among the first in line. (It's a mail-in ballot but I am not taking any chances with everything going on. I need to see evidence of my vote being counted.)
In my town, there is a dropbox at the county building. I dropped my ballot carefully in there last Tuesday.
Imagine the message it would send if we voted every single Republican out of office this year. Every last one of them that's up for election.
They would have just enough Senators to impeach and remove Trump if that happened.
Inevitably, at least one Dem would vote against it.
We all know that's Fetterman. He swung hard to the right after that stroke
Schumer and Jeffries can’t let dems win even if they win. Their job is to lead the minority party and that’s what they will continue to do.
Too big to rig!
41% of the surveyed would still vote for this madness and 8% are undecided or too embarrassed to admit how they would vote. 49-51 with a margin of error is not a winning split, it's a deadlock at best. If you want change, change requires action and the simplest action you can take is voting. This isn't a high obstacle or a difficult choice.
It’s not 0% approval, which is the only number that matters.
It's one thing for a person to say something this dumb, but who are the 26+ other people who upvoted it???
Really? It doesn't matter unless approval is 0%? Something that has literally never happened and is essentially impossible?
Literally not true but ok.
It will never be 0% approval.
Even if you somehow got rid of all the fucking Nazis out there, there's still the 'lizardman constant', some small percentage of people who either didn't understand the poll, are lazy and giving random answers to just get through the poll as fast as possible, or are giving crazy answers just for shits and giggles.
Of course not but one can hope.
This stance is impressively insane. How did you get to this?
Sorry if this is obtuse. Trump has been polled for at least 10 years. Corporate media often points to the polls as a bad sign. Then Trump defies the polls and the pollster goes whoops and assumes next time the poll will be correct. But it never is. Trump has so often defied polls I’m surprised it’s not a meme. Anyway. I realize the number is never going to be 0 because some people are so fanatical they need to be deradicalized. Those people will always support Trump and they’ll also support the next snake oil salesman.
