Prosthetic Conscience wrote:@Doug64, yes, Doug, you've got several things wrong there. That's a survey over the whole of 2017, not the end of year figure. It tells you nothing about how it's changed. There are no "November 2016" figures there. There can't be, because he wasn't president then, so you can't poll about the approval of his job performance. I suspect you've taken an exit poll for his votes in the election and thought that is the same as an "approval" figure. I'm pretty sure you're a native English speaker, so I'll just put that down to a desperate attempt to find something good for Trump.
But, you know, nice try.
I wouldn’t consider an article headlined “The Voters Abandoning Donald Trump” to be a “desperate attempt to find something good for Trump.” And personally, I consider voting to be the purest form of approval polling, so I have no problem comparing vote tallies to approval polls. But you are right that this is a year-long survey rather than and “end-of-year” snapshot, which means that Black support for Trump is likely to be higher than the survey results reported in
The Atlantic due to the improving economic outlook — especially the bonuses, wage increases, and new hiring that has followed the tax cuts, and the historic low level of Black unemployment. So taking a look at the latest week for Rasmussen’s poll of Likely Voters, Blacks come in at 26% Approve to 72% Disapprove. As I said, a good reason for Democrats to be getting nervous.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke