59% of Americans think Trump's presidency has been a failure
Source: Axios
Most Americans (59%) believe Donald Trump's presidency thus far has been a failure, while 36% say it has been a success according to a new CNN poll to mark his 200th day in office. 62% have less confidence in him now than when he took office.
Other findings...
Trust: 24% of Americans say they can trust all or most of the information coming out of the White House, while 30% say they believe nothing at all.
Base: Strong approval among Republicans has dropped from 73% in February to 59% now.
Reputation: 30% say they admire Trump and 34% say they're proud to have him as president, while 55% say he's lowered the stature of his office.
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Read more: https://www.axios.com/59-of-americans-think-trumps-presidency-has-been-a-failure-2470379783.html
CNN article on the poll here:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/07/politics/poll-trump-approval-down-amid-distrust/index.html
Overall, 38% say they approve of Trump's handling of the presidency, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with 56% saying they disapprove. Just one other newly-elected president has held an approval rating below 50% at this point in his presidency since modern polling began: Bill Clinton, whose approval rating stood at 44% at this point in 1993.
Enthusiasm breaks against Trump by a 2-to-1 margin. Nearly half in the new poll say they strongly disapprove of Trump's handling of the job (47%), while just a quarter say they feel strongly positive about Trump's performance (24%).
Those numbers have soured in recent months, particularly among Trump's core supporters. Among Republicans, strong approval has dropped from 73% in February to 59% now. Among whites who do not have college degrees, a core component of Trump's base, just 35% strongly approve, down 12 points since February. At the same time, strong disapproval among Democrats has held steady around 80%.
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Lots more info there, all of it bad news for Trump.
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that the media would adequately expose and inform the American people about pence's crackpottery, but I doubt it. They did a horrible job with dump, chimpy, raygun, et al. Soft-pedal their extremist views and bad policy plans while propping them up to appear presidential. Not one of them was truly adequate for the job.
Why would they do any better with pence?
Very intelligent analysis and I fear you are correct--punce fits the "very serious man" stereotype at first glance and can play the role. The little problem is that he's an extremist wacko who came right out and said he's an Xtian before American. He wants a theocracy and no doubt thinks he's dog's appointed servant sent to bring it about. 
And, at the same time and *how conveniently*, he's a koch stooge who would simultaneously advance the agenda of the billionaires. So, two strikes out but we will grow old waiting for the media to do any sort of accurate expose of his extremist views.
Same thing with Lyin' Ryan--the media by and large has fawned over him and anointed him as a serious policy wonk rather than a deluded acolyte of wacko Ayn Rand. And those are likely to be the puke presidential choices in 2020 if dump has imploded by then.
He just doesn't flaunt it as much.
about a third of the population in any country has this authoritarian bent. The same imbeciles who now support dump in another time and place would happily have voted for Hitler, Mussolini, etc. They exist in every society.
We will prevail 
