Trump approval ratings thread 1.5

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

Say what you want about Trump’s ‘dismal’ approval ratings, but he’s right where Obama was at this point in his presidency.....

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_vs_president_obama_job_approval.html

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

Back to the mid 40s lol  (RCP AVG at 43.5% - with a couple outliers at 39% about to be edged out).

These threads are a joke, wishcasting Trump’s demise.

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

Back to the mid 40s lol  (RCP AVG at 43.5% - with a couple outliers at 39% about to be edged out).

These threads are a joke, wishcasting Trump’s demise.

538's average, which uses a better technique, has Trump approval at 41.4/54.6.  But keep relying on RCP's simplistic average if it makes you feel better.

So simplistic that RCP got 2016 closer than the egotistical Nate’s 538. Right.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_elections_electoral_college_map_no_toss_ups.html

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

Nate calls the 2008 election (easiest to call) and he’s seen as a god. He ducks up the 2016 election it’s all deflection “well no he didn’t predict per se he was giving the odds and 30% chance isn’t 0 blah blah blah”.....You can’t have it both ways, if he gets praised when he gets it right, he bears responsibility when he does indeed get it wrong.

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

The 2016 popular vote polling was not even off. Trump did a little better than expected but well within the margin of error. Trump just got the exact breakdown he needed thanks to our antiquated electoral process.

The argument that Trump lost the popular vote is completely irrelevant. For the last 250 years the United States has an electoral college system - every presidential candidate understood and understands those rules and the system at play.

Campaigns are waged on the knowledge that it’s an EC system. If you went to merely a popular vote, campaigns would fight differently thereby making the PV outcome unpredictable within our current context.

In the meantime, I’ll call the Wambuiance for all the hissy fits about not winning a fair election.