Summary
A Fox News host, Jessica Tarlov, highlighted Trump’s declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance.
Trump is “underwater on everything” including economy, federal workforce management, Ukraine-Russia policy, and trade relations with Mexico and Canada.
The polling slide comes amid stock market tumbles, federal worker layoffs, and trade tensions.
Tarlov noted that Republican members of Congress are facing hostile town halls where constituents are challenging them on federal workforce cuts, including at the VA. Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as “paid actors.”
People when the world’s most illiterate celebrity does all of the dumb, racist shit he says he is going to do:
His next plan will be to start a war
How long before Trump wants her fired?
Well, a month ago a majority still approved… so I guess it’s a tiny minuscule progress? One eaten face at a time?
‘He’s underwater on everything’ - except the one way that matters the most.
I’ll take “Things you can’t say on Reddit” for 200
But seriously, even if he was sleeping with the fish the r’s are still a huge a problem. He’s just the front guy, he’ll be replaced with another clown.
Sadly, yes. I mean, Trump knows he’s ‘close’ to his grave and needs to leave some kind of legacy - even if it’s the Hitler kind of one - his narcissistic self just wants to enter them history books as one of the big humans instead of ‘another rich guy’ as a footnote.
Pretty sure either Elon or Vance are already lined up for when the time comes. When Trump leaves the world, and when there’s no longer actual rules preventing them from taking over and ‘fixing’ under martial law what big bad orange wrecked. At least according to them, that is.
No matter how bad what they’re doing seems this is just the preparation stage. Things can become so, so much worse, and the more we let them consolidate power the tougher it’ll be to fight it later.
Someone should start telling him no one has visited the titanic and he could be the first.
Call OceanGate. They can provide the submarine. They have the EXACT experience we need.
The problem with Trump is that he has literally no redeeming qualities. So getting him to go see the titanic would be hard given it would take him having some curiosity about something other than himself.
For a fascist disapproval of a slim majority definitely isn’t “underwater” just a “minor inconvenience”.
On the one hand, I support a politician who does the right things despite public opinion. Fuck approval ratings. On the other hand, how can a single person be wrong about fucking everything? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
He stopped penny minting. I’m sure he accidentally did one other good thing for the adage to be true
I mean depends on how you look at it. In many ways, the world NEEDS to get off it’s dollar addiction. Having a hegemonic currency isn’t great for humanity as a whole. And Trump is doing the very best I’ve ever seen at helping the world cure itself of this problem. Not great for USA, but an important step for how geopolitics will work moving forward. Unless you meant doing everything wrong for Americans, then yes, Trump is awful.
I don’t know, I think what will just end up happening is china’s “dollar” taking its place instead
We’re just going to end up exchanging one superpower for another, it’s not going to fundamentally fix the problem. For that you’d need to do it more sensibly
It’s pretty destabilizing globally too. I don’t see the dollar addiction going anywhere; it’s just changing currencies.
We really don’t need China or Russia (or KSA or EU) calling the shots globally either.
There is a reason central banks are buying gold, and that it is making new all-time highs, and recently breached $3K/oz. They’re anticipating the demise of the dollar, and minimizing their exposure to the chaos from the U.S. and buying gold instead of U.S. bonds. Look for this trend to accelerate, especially once the U.S. reaches the point where it can’t sell enough bonds to finance it’s budget deficit, leading to a massive debt crisis and the collapse of the dollar. Gold is already on track to be up >50% this year (up 13.7% so far ytd), and the consistent rise in gold while stocks and other investments fare poorly will only fuel the stampede. I’m confident that gold will end 2025 over $4k/oz, and that 2026 will be even crazier.
Dammit, I should have never dropped out of my Applied Alchemy Program at the University of Phoenix.
Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as “paid actors.”
SOROOOOOOOOS!
shakes tiny fist
Poor polling only matters if there’ll be elections.
Eventually, it will get bad enough that it matters regardless.
Especially in a country as heavily armed as the US.
“What Fox just reported is illegal.”
– DJTThat leave - at least - 47% of nazis in the USA. Already too much, this country needs to be wipe out, with the exception of the First Nations, the real people to whom this territory belongs.
wake me up when it’s the 100% it should be
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declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance
Another Quinnipiac poll from last month determined 45 percent approved of Trump’s performance and 49 percent disapproved.
So half of the people still approve of what he’s doing? How does such a small percentage even justify a news article with such a ridiculous headline? The US are so cooked it’s not even funny. Wake me when it’s at 90% disapproval.
I’ve never heard of that polling agency in my life before. I had to look it up, it’s a private university in Connecticut.
I sure didn’t get polled about any of this.
So no, more precisely, half of all people polled by this one school in a state that nobody talks about approve of what he’s doing. I’m willing to bet half of those people have no idea what’s going on.
I have a very hard time believing that half of all Americans are happy and content with current events. I live here, I hear people complain.
Do you honestly believe good polls call everyone for a poll, or that they need to to get good results?
I do think they need to have a good sample size to get results that make sense, yes.
Doing some research on it, seems like Quinnipiac’s standard polling is conducted “in more than 20 states and cities as well as nationally” (particular locations not specified) and has typically 1,000+ respondents using random digit dialing. Meaning they just slap random numbers into the phone and see who picks up.
I can’t say I can immediately come up with a better solution right off the top of my head right now, but I can identify several problems with their approach, namely being actual size of sample (1000 respondents is 0.000003% of the population) and the way they gather their responses (when was the last time you answered the phone for an unknown caller? Now when was the last time your grandmother did?).
From what I remember from university stats, 1000 is the standard sample size for these types of things and accurate to a reasonable margin of error (±3% iirc).
This is assuming that it’s truly a representative sample though, and frankly I’m with you that I do have my doubts that over-the-phone surveys sufficiently represent the youth.
You are still showing your lack of understanding of statistics. It requires a large sample size, yes, and the larger it is the more accurate it will be, but the proportion of the total population doesn’t have to be large at all. Margin of error and confidence are both controlled by the absolute sample size (assuming a random sampling). Here’s a link that covers the basics. Most serious polls use a sample size of about 5000. Now, 1000 isn’t terrible, but it isn’t good, but not because it’s such a tiny fraction of the population.
As for the methodology, which is also critical, I don’t know what method for phone surveys is considered adequate, and it is well known that phone surveys are becoming less relevant even if they are more accurate than polls where the respondents are self-selected.
