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With the media under control of billionaires benefitting from the handouts they get from Trump, are his job approval poll numbers believable? I take every news story I watch with a grain of salt, and then some. Even MSNOW gives me pause, compared to independent media sources. My guess is that he's 25% nationally.
They're going to try and make some kind of statistical case for the upcoming election to be free and fair. It won't be. Democrats are too busy flitting here and there with their fundraising to do anything about the fact that they are going to have votes stolen from under their noses. That will make the pollsters look right again.
sheshe2
(97,892 posts)JHC
lees1975
(7,096 posts)sheshe2
(97,892 posts)I suggest MS NOW starting a 4pm for good coverage.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. You need to your own research.
I can't do all your work for you.
Watch. Listen. Think.
sheshe2
(97,892 posts)In case you haven't been listening.
A trend that cant be ignored: Dems have made up ground in nearly every election since Trump took office
But the progressive organizers romp on Thursday elicited little shock, despite the margin in a district former Vice President Kamala Harris had carried by just 8 points.
It is a warning sign for Republicans that has continued to flash across the country every few weeks. Consistent overperformances in special elections have been an indicator of midterm shifts in the past, and the trend over the last 15 months is particularly strong. In the two-year cycle of special elections heading into 2018, margins shifted to the left in about two-thirds of special elections, according to The Downballot. In November of that year, Democrats netted 40 seats.
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The overperformance across the country in special election after special election is a trend that cant be ignored and proof that the American people are souring on Republicans broken promises, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson Aidan Johnson said in a statement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/18/democrats-special-election-results-analysis-00879021
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Deuxcents
(27,268 posts)Just this week, I talked with a person at a local shop that she runs and we got into a quick conversation and she told me she was interviewed by a local tv or radio station..complete with microphone and a couple of questions and she made up her responses. Good or bad, I dont know if its what we should do but I did agree with her ad lib performance.
Maru Kitteh
(31,866 posts)Because they are currently. Those are the ones you are casting doubts upon?
I think they are puffing the Trump numbers.
Maru Kitteh
(31,866 posts)that are, by and large, outperforming even the outlier polls favoring Democrats? Because thats happening. Whats the explanation for that if they are puffing for Trump? Cant have it both ways.
everyonematters
(4,202 posts)In their last poll, Gallup found that 45% are registered as independents. They are voting Democrat by 2:1. Most pollsters are counting them at about 35%. They are the ones who are going to be deciding elections for the foreseeable future. That's why their polls show us leading the mid terms by 4 - 6 points, but we are winning special elections by bigger margins.
spanone
(141,826 posts)They lie about everything.
Johonny
(26,343 posts)In the sense they won't abandon him because their self worth is involved in pretending he's kicking ass. See Joe Rogan still willing to troll for him.
But with independents and Democrats he's in the toilet and they've flushed him. If we really hit the recession he so richly deserves, who knows.