Trump approval ratings thread 1.2

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Didn't have the advantage but got 3 millions more votes than him. Very equal.

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HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED TO SAY THIS!?

Dont read too much in the daily fluctuations of tracking polls. Holy effing crap, you people are trying sometimes.

We don't all agree with you on that. Any fluctuation has a reason behind it. Just because statistical fluctuations occur does not mean that a 2 point drop isn't due to the latest Mueller news or whatever the hypothesis may be.

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Yet, in the light of that major statistical failure - people are still relying here heavily on polls and statistics to try to predict everything.  It's like the chocolate milk from brown cows thing.  Do you think really Americans are that stupid, or are they just trolling the pollsters because they hate getting polled on everything or receiving calls during dinner?

It wasn't a statistical failure. 538 gave Trump a 30% chance of winning, based on polls. It's not a failure if you predict that something has a 30% chance of happening, and then it happens. The polls never implied that Hillary couldn't lose, merely that it was unlikely. There's no reason not to continue using them for that same purpose.

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That's how the electoral college works, because we're a Republic. The people in Wyoming need as much say as Californians, otherwise it really is "tyranny of the majority".

In what sense do they have "as much" say? Wyoming has a lot fewer electoral votes. And per capita, Californians have less. What metric are you using that puts the people of Wyoming and California on an even footing?

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F**k. http://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/224801/changes-presidential-job-approval-tracking-reporting.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&g_campaign=item_203207&g_medium=copy

Thank god. You all need to get a life and take a Xanax. Nobody sane gives a f**k whether Trump's approval was -3 or +2 on a particular day, which by the way IS MOSTLY STATISTICAL NOISE ANYWAY.

The exact same thing applies to weekly, monthly, or any time period. It's based on the margin of error, not how often you measure it.

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I've been here 14 years and I'm pretty sure I've never put anyone on ignore, other than maybe as an experiment. It's not hard to read past stuff you don't want to read. Maybe I'm practiced at it or something, but just try it. It's not hard. For me Limo's comments blend it with a lot of other stuff on this forum, and I don't even notice it as a problem other than the fact that people are constantly complaining about it.