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Last week was a turbulent one for American politics, as weeks have been for each of the past 158. But last week was particularly turbulent, given the broad blowback against President Trumps policy of separating families at the border and his eventual partial reversal of it. Its the sort of week that one might expect would result in a sharp drop in a presidents approval numbers.
And lo, on Monday, new data from Gallup appear to show exactly that. During the week from June 11 to June 17, Trumps approval was at 45 percent tied for the highest of his presidency and only 50 percent disapproved of the job he was doing. The following week, though? Approval down four points and disapproval up five, a swing of nine points.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/25/trumps-approval-plummets-way-way-down-to-where-its-been-for-a-while/?utm_term=.a66a3a159808
Gallups Jeffrey Jones says the shift is a function of lower approvals from every partisan group: Republicans down three points, independents down four points and Democrats down five.
But if we widen the lens just a bit, we see a slightly different picture. Sure, there was a nine-point shift relative to the prior week, but relative to two weeks prior, the shift was only two points on net. Trumps latest approval ratings from Gallup are basically the same as they were two weeks ago.
Looking at that Gallup chart, the outlier seems to be not the most recent week but the week prior, that of June 11 to June 17. Gallups Jones mentioned one possible factor in a brief bump in Trumps numbers: the meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Yonnie3
(17,516 posts)The article explains it well. Thanks for posting this. I'm not needed here.
I'm holding out for approval to be 33% before I start cheering.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)MFM008
(19,837 posts)Hes trying to change the subject with the Red Hen bullshit.
Demovictory9
(32,498 posts)kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)The single digit range approval would be fine with me.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)I hate that SOB
White Hot burning hate
I despair every day
I fear every day
I am scared every day
kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Ugh. Kidnapping is only enough to put Trump back where he has been...this is a seriously sick society.