Newsweek is the most unreliable source of news. It's 100% click bait, every article. Still, I hope this is true about his rating.
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He's losing the stupid people? Never thought that would happen.
Don't worry, one lie filled rally speech and these morons will be back to licking his taint.
These are the guys who voted for him. How about the educated ones who sat it out?
They're stupid, but not THAT stupid.
Well, some of them are.
trump approval ratings hit all time low with ~~uneducated Americans~~ his biggest supporters
He's still got very strong support from intelligent psychopaths, who see him as a valuable tool.
That's almost literally what the rest of the sentence says.
Or one could say "even with uneducated Americans". Having dumb supporters is his last holdout.
It's the economy.
Middle management MAGA and up are doing "great" in the K-shaped economic recovery. Many of them want everyone to know it, and they've taken on the elitist talking points that boil down to "if you're struggling financially, it's due to your own personal failings."
So, people who ARE struggling (and that trends very high in people with lower educational attainment regardless of political leanings but really covers everyone up to solid middle class) get turned off by that messaging.
Right leaning folks in that lower leg still believe the "Democrats are communists and immigrants are violent human-trafficking rapists" talking points they hear from the president and their media bubble. But when they see that the "LOW PRICES" didn't pan out and they're struggling more and they lost their health insurance and their kids are dying from opioid laced drugs and their parents lost their medicaid and their taxes didn't actually go down and those manufacturing jobs never materialized and then on top of that they're seeing people at the top literally flying to space and wearing multi-million dollar watches while they lay off their workers -- the reality of all that triggers cognitive dissonance in some of those who aren't actually fully willfully ignorant.
He's such a piece of shit that even the dumbest are starting to catch on
There's a much simpler explanation.
I spotted a... Very different version that gave me a chuckle. I think this was in PA, near the border of MD, but I'd need to double check.
Is fucking up the global price of oil solely for the desires of a foreign nation, which happens to be a genocidal apartheid ethnostate, not considered being a piece of shit?
Conservatives really are some of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
The instinctual, impulse driven "in group/out group" prejudice is strong. Bad things happening to the out groups must mean good things for them. They don't know what, why, or how, but they know it's benefiting them. Somehow.
During Union membership drives I always wear a red hat. Because anyone smart enough to read will see its a blank red hat, and probably already will be in the Union. The maga guys see team colors and are more likely to listen to me. I shit you not that is all it takes.
If MAGA can manipulate them into going against their best interests, Progressives can manipulate them into supporting their best interests.
Maybe don't allow MAGAs to constantly steer the conversation towards Trans stuff, and keep it focused on how much MAGA is stealing from us. People don't like it when they get stolen from.
Remind them that they are being chumps for letting MAGA steal EVERYTHING from them.
Critical thinking and empathy are learned behaviours, these morons are never thought. To them it's like dunking a basketball, it's not going to happen.
The uneducated don't actually care the reasons. The only reason they are upset is that they see things directly affecting them.
There is a large portion of the electorate that needs to touch the stove to understand it's hot.
There is a large portion of the electorate that needs to touch the stove to understand it's hot.
that's how most of us learn, from our own mistakes. Only the wisest of us are learning from the mistakes of others, the stupid never learn.
These are stupid people, that did not learn the first time around from that mistake and have to touch the stove again. Nit being educated doesn't make you stupid, it does mean you're ignorant.
As others point out the only concern is gas prices, doesn't matter the world is burning from climate change, there's wars, genocide, apartheid, all needing a world being closer together.
It's not "solely for the desires of a foreign nation." Although bribes and blackmail are surely factors, the other reason the US (and especially the Republican Party) does whatever helps Israel is to appease American evangelical Christians who want to fulfill a Biblical prophesy of Jews returning to the Holy Land to kick off the End Times so they can get Raptured.
It's literally an insane death cult controlling US foreign policy.
And also get the Trump-Epstein Files off the front page. The best plans have multiple objectives.
41% is still a weird amount of people approving him ngl.
FUCK yes it is. I've always found it astonishing that he could possibly have more than 10% of voters or supporters. It says so much about this country that he does.
A lot of them aren't so much Trump supporters, as lifetime Democrat HATERS. They've grown up on a steady diet of the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which is the sole source of their entire political education and knowledge, and is entirely about demonizing ALL Democrats.
They may not like Trump, but they have no alternative, because the idea of voting for any Democrat is literally unthinkable.
Yeah, I get that to an extent. But how the fuck could someone vote for such a morally corrupt piece of fucking shit? Not voting would make way more sense. Yet the data suggests Republicans are more dedicated to voting than Democrats. fucking sadly.
uneducated is new, otherwise a recurring headline. (did not investigate, but the number seems to be roughly the same)
but the number seems to be roughly the same
It always is.
Real hard to imagine what isn't "roughly the same" if this is qualifying
That chart shows a TREND of a delta, not an actual approval rating. But the actual numbers say otherwise:
Results:
Overall voters: 38 percent approve, 61 percent disapprove (net minus 23) High school or less education: 41 percent approve, 57 percent disapprove (net minus 16)
Margin of error: plus or minus 3.6 percentage points
So overall approval rate is 38% for the less educated it's 41%, that's the same as we've seen every fucking single time there's an approval poll. He has actually been way lower before, but it's within the margin of error.
So same same. How they get those delta values, I have no idea?????
The reason I don't care to read those kinds of articles anymore, is that they are ALWAYS lying. It is NEVER an all time low. Ir's just more of the same. AFAIK Trump was down to 32% approval at some point, this is 6% HIGHER!!!
Not necessarily saying you're wrong... Just pointing out your explanation isn't making direct comparisons.
This chart is "net", which is "approves minus dissaproves", and it's important that you can respond with "neither approves or didsaproves".
So you can have a lower approval rating (32) with a higher NET approval rating, if the "neither approves or dissaproves" chunk is larger.
If a higher approval rating results in a lower net (which is what these numbers are), it generally means more "fence sitters" have definitively shifted to flat-out dissaproval.
So, haven't looked at the data, just noticing your argument seems predicated on a partial understanding of the specific metric this reports on.
Not necessarily saying you're wrong
I will, they're dead ass wrong and it's super frustrating because I see this shit everywhere and it comes from a combination of the facts that a) Americans don't get enough education in how to interpret statistics and b) a lot of news media will just cherry pick whatever statistical results they want to tell whatever story they want (e.g. want to make people think the socialist revolution will happen tomorrow, look at what women under 40 think; want to make everyone think Americans are heartless psychopaths, ask independents how Trump is doing on immigration; want to think absolutely nothing has changed, look at GOP approval numbers; etc.)
Look at a bunch of different polls and the directions they've all moved while reading them carefully to see precisely what they're measuring and how and it is absolutely undeniable that most Americans hate our president
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That chart shows a TREND of a delta, not an actual approval rating
Really? I totally thought -20% of people approved of him, that would have totally made sense and been a real thing that could happen /s
So overall approval rate is 38% for the less educated it's 41%, that's the same as we've seen every fucking single time there's an approval poll.
Not true, you say it yourself
Trump was down to 32% approval at some point,
In one poll (which, btw, now has him at 30%, because different samples and different methodologies produce different results
If you look at the trend within basically every set of polls out there he has definitely gotten continuously less popular every month with everyone
e; Apologies if I was an ass in this or other comments in this thread, but the way that a lot of people talk about polls and how they're reported makes me lose my mind because I believe being able to have informed conversations about public opinion is really important to a healthy democracy and I think we have lost that a lot in the last 15 years and that's a big part of why everything is so screwed up right now
I investigated if that was the real headline. When MSM is consistently not defending and pointing out glaring flaws, the billionaire pedofile governing body has lost faith in the representative (not the mission), and is looking for another front/fall guy.
Oops, that didn't go there.
Oh hey, it's this headline again
Haven't seen "uneducated" before. Maybe I missed it.
'Tis but a small variation
...among voters with a high school education or less...
The title of this article is misleading and lowkey offensive. People with highschool educations are not "uneducated" as the title suggests. Shit like this is why these folks are skeptical of main stream media. Show some respect NewsWeek, come on.
Also, I want to know the statistics for voters with NO education. Show me the true uneducated statistics!!!
"We tried reaching several feral children for comment, but we haven't heard back as of press time."
Depends on where you live; a high school education in some places just means you know how to show up semi-regularly and deal with conflict.
These days it’s not until you go into trades or higher education that some standard level of competency is evaluated. Despite the fact that there are some kids in high school who know significantly more than I do about political science.
How many of these before it starts to matter?
They all do. Most obviously, there is the midterm election coming up. But also, as support for Trump wears away, more Republicans are willing to break with him.
So recently, Trump said that he wouldn't sign any legislation until his pet vote rigging (sorry election security) legislation was passed. Republicans joined Democrats to pass a housing bill, over Trump's objections.
Trump's nominees are also having a harder time getting through the confirmation process. At the beginning of his term, he rammed through several nominees by threatening to primary Republicans. Those included RFK, Jr. and Hegseth. Now, questionable nominees like Todd Blanche are struggling to make it through.
THOSE GUYS?!?! He's losing THOSE GUYS?!?!? Damn Donnie.
Right? They are his people!
Damn that's his target audience. What about just the subset of knuckle dragging mouth breathers?
They still love him.
We should just like, be nice to each other.
Nah. This frail, old, slurring dude is the manliest idea of a manly man that I can think of. I'll DIE supporting this man as long as it pisses off the left!
"I love the poorly educated"
They are getting educated on just how bad of a choice Trump was.
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