- Approval below 40% in 17 states
- Highest approval in West Virginia, North Dakota and South Dakota
- Lowest approval in Vermont and Massachusetts
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump, who has averaged 40% job approval since his inauguration, received approval ratings of 50% or higher in 17 states in the first half of 2017. Residents in an equal number of states gave him approval ratings below 40%. In 16 states, his ratings ranged between 40% and 49%.
Consistent with the broader geographic patterns of Republican strength across the country, some of Trump’s highest approval ratings tend to be in Southern, Plains and Mountain West states. His lowest ratings are primarily in Northeast and West Coast states.
The results are based on Gallup Daily tracking from Jan. 20 through June 30, including interviews with more than 81,000 U.S. adults. Gallup interviewed at least 220 residents in each state during this period, including 500 or more in 39 states. Gallup weighted each state sample to ensure it is demographically representative of the adult population. The full results for each state are included at the end of the article.
During the Jan. 20-June 30 time period, residents in West Virginia (60%), North Dakota (59%) and South Dakota (57%) gave Trump his […]
It is too bad that they cannot do a comparison of all people in the U.S.; that would be a real estimate of Trump’s evaluation. I would like to see what that poll would say, and I bet it would be much lower that 40%; probably more like 20%, at best. I’ve never met anyone who likes what he is doing.
The constitution, to work, requires a considerable degree of consensus. It is not a majoritarian document. It also gives disproportionate power to states with small populations, something that is exacerbating the cultural schism in the country.
I think we need to seriously consider anything between a much looser federalism to perhaps a genuine divorce over irreconcilable differences. Otherwise we are in an abusive relationship with people who would rather wreck the system than not have their way all the time.
Gerald Calente refers to the country as the Disunited States of America. Lefties refer to the U.S. Constitution as a living document. I would argue that it is in fact largely dead. The president, congress & the Supreme Court do not rule this land. The drug cartel (pharma), oil cartel, banksters and the military intelligence community run the show through fascist controls and black projects. Politics are an irrelevant theater show and the two party system a complete corrupt charade. Positive change will occur through people in local communities rejecting the federal and state tyranny by refusing to participate in the system. Decentralization is inevitable when the empire collapses…and we are in a slow motion collapse of America and the globalist system that is based on nothing but lies, fraud and a control grid operated by psychopaths. Trump is a catalyst for change if only because the system is being exposed for what it truly is and you have to be willfully ignorant or blind not to see it now.