The Economist said Thursday that during its 17 years of tracking presidents with YouGov, Trump hit the lowest mark with a net approval rating of -25.
25 years covers exactly four presidents. YouGov is primarily doing internet surveys. Headline gore is business as usual.
The Economist reported. “Our forecasting model says the Democrats have a nine-in-ten chance of winning control of the House of Representatives. The Senate is a toss-up.”
Half the joke of all these polls and predictions. You’d like to think “Most unpopular President in history” would produce a bigger reactionary impulse than “80% of Congress guaranteed to keep their jobs and maybe 5 Senate seats out of 33 are in play”.
So much of the US political scene is in the grip of machine politics and so many of the opposition political establishment is perfectly fine with 90% of what the current President is doing. Turnout will be lackluster, as usual. Most incumbents will sleep soundly, assuming they survived their primaries. And entrenched partisans will turn out to vote straight ticket, because they’re trapped in a media echo chamber that reiterates all the same beliefs they’ve been fed since Reagan.
The only real material difference in politics seems to boil down to “Are you angry that a Cheeto is in the White House?”
25 years covers exactly four presidents. YouGov is primarily doing internet surveys. Headline gore is business as usual.
Half the joke of all these polls and predictions. You’d like to think “Most unpopular President in history” would produce a bigger reactionary impulse than “80% of Congress guaranteed to keep their jobs and maybe 5 Senate seats out of 33 are in play”.
So much of the US political scene is in the grip of machine politics and so many of the opposition political establishment is perfectly fine with 90% of what the current President is doing. Turnout will be lackluster, as usual. Most incumbents will sleep soundly, assuming they survived their primaries. And entrenched partisans will turn out to vote straight ticket, because they’re trapped in a media echo chamber that reiterates all the same beliefs they’ve been fed since Reagan.
The only real material difference in politics seems to boil down to “Are you angry that a Cheeto is in the White House?”