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TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATING SHOWS PLUMMETING POPULARITY AMONG WHITE VOTERS, JUST LIKE OBAMA AT END OF HIS TERMBY GREG PRICE ON 12/9/17 AT 7:00 AM
President Donald Trump often blasts his predecessor, Barack Obama, and repeatedly tries to separate their administrations. But recent polling shows that, just like Obama before him, Trump has started to lose support among the white voters who helped put him in the White House.
The Republican billionaires job approval rating among white voters has plummeted to 41 percent from 49 percent in February, according to the latest Pew Research Center poll results released Thursday. Those figures are a far cry from the 58 percent of the total white vote Trump claimed on Election Day last year.
During the eight years of his presidency, Obama, too, lost favor among white voters. When Obamas presidency began in January 2009, he had a 63 percent approval rating among whites. That was down to 47 percent when he left office in January of this year, according to Gallups data.
Pew blamed Trumps decline on a number of factors, most notably approval among Republicans. He held a commanding 84 percent approval rating among Republicans 10 months ago, but that figure has since dropped to 76 percent. The president has spent much of his first year in office catering to his base, but the large dip in GOP support could be a sign hes losing control of his own party.
Trump also lost approval among older voters47 percent of people age 50 and older supported the president in February, compared to 38 percent nowand among white evangelical Protestants, 61 percent of whom now support the president, down from 78 percent.
Trumps approval among blacks also fell over the past 10 months, to seven percent from 14 percent, while his standing among Hispanic voters is stagnant at 17 percent.
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Trump's Support Among Whites Dropping (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2017
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Cicada
(4,533 posts)1. Better to look at poll averages at 538 dot com, not just one poll
Bibluca
(63 posts)2. Approval ratings don't hold much weight
It's when Trump is pitted against another candidate, that matters. Trump had historically low approval before the election, yet he was still elected. Worse approval ratings now don't mean he can't win again. It all depends on who he is up against.