Con artist as unpopular as Nixon before he resigned

[someoneyouknow]

A new Marist College poll finds that 20% of Americans rate President Donald Trump's job performance as excellent, 20% as pretty good, 13% as only fair and 45% as poor.

There is, not surprisingly, a large gap between how members of the two parties view Trump. Although only 2% of Democrats say Trump is doing an excellent job, 49% of Republicans do. Democrats are far more likely to give a poor rating at 80% compared to 6% of Republicans.

https://www.docdroid.net/acECpZJ/marist-poll-nature-of-the-sample-and-tables-july-2018-1807261206.pdf#page=3

What still makes Trump unique though is the amount of intensity his detractors have for him. You might say many strongly dislike him. The excellent, pretty good, only fair and poor scale allows us to get at that because it's been asked for every president since President John Kennedy.

Trump is as strongly disliked as President Richard Nixon was when he resigned the presidency 44 years ago this week. Back then, 45% of people said Nixon was doing a poor job as president in a Harris poll.

The intensity of the disapproval for Trump has translated to a significant enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans in midterm polling and special elections. It could drive Democrats to their greatest House seat gain in a midterm since the last time a Republican president had such a high poor rating in that midterm year. That of course was in 1974.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/11/politics/poll-of-the-week-trump-nixon/index.html

 

[KeithD]

And it needs to be noted that fewer and fewer non-Trump people are responding to these polls as Republicans these days.

 

[KeithD]

53% rating Trump's job performance as fair or better, is higher than I had expected.

"Fair" is not a favorable response. Take that 13 percent away to get a more realistic view. But, yes, even then the rating is a sad commentary on Americans.