3mo ago

Trump wanted to break his own record

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Every other president had an increase. Every single one. Not even breaking a record, creating a new one by failing twice.
- The Art of the Deal
  
  art of the steal
  
  🦭💨
- Your point is still valid, but it’s not an increase/decrease thing.
  Im pretty sure Net Approval means percent that approve minus percent that disapprove.
  
  Curses, you are right!
- Also every other president had a positive net approval.
- I dont understand how a president has a 70 or 80% increase in the first 100 days though? Isnt that measuring from when they were elected? How do you get elected with less than 20% approval?
  Edit* nvm this was explained in several comments further down. I did read quite a few comments to see if someone addressed this but obviously not far enough
And yet he has no less power... In fact I bet he has more than any other on the list thanks to the supreme court.
- Your system is so fucked. It took the Tories less time than it takes for a lettuce to go bad to oust the mad woman in the attic when she fucked our economy.
  
  It's been true all my life, just especially so these last 2 decades
  
  It wouldn't have been as easy if the Tories were in on it. The system isn't great, but it's only fucked because everyone involved in it is a fucking demon.
- In general the president has been gaining power over the past 50 years as congress has become more gridlocked and inept.
  Now we're at the point where a president can bomb a foreign country backed only by the approval of his buddies in a signal chat.
Man, how low do you think Trump III's approval rating will be?
must be all that golf scoring getting to his head
But like, a majority decided it would be a good idea to let him have a go at breaking that record. You thought, maybe he'd be a good choice once, rapidly discovered that was not the case and then decided to try AGAIN!?
Interesting that it is a very clear downward trend. Hopefully this is a sign that more and more people realize the two parties are failing them and are ready for a shake up.
- I was actually about to make a comment that I think this is related to biased media, the 24/7 news cycle, and the need for outrage to get eyeballs for ad revenue.
  In the past I think people had their amygdalas left alone for the most part, at least for anything that wasn't "be afraid of communism!!"
- Given he had the similar decrease on his first term... I'm not holding my breath.
What's up with Truman, Kennedy and all those high numbers?
Even if we assume Truman achieved 100% approval in the first 100 days, that'd mean his initial approval was 16%.
I am going to be a bit skeptical of this.
Mainly because I know that Kennedy was elected and not grandfathered in like truman and there's no way he was only elected with only 28%
- Net approval at a point in time is the percentage of voters who approve minus the percentage of voters who disapprove, it's not a delta from an earlier reading.
  For net approval to be negative, more people must disapprove then approve.
- I don't think this is initial approval minus approval 100 days in, I think it's approval 100 days in minus disapproval 100 days in.
- +84 doesn't mean an increase of 84 percentage points, it means 92% approval, 8% disapproval.
Yet here we are...
bush being like "only 41? pff hey condi toss that pdb in the trash and pretend you didn't see it"
Truman +84 yeah sure ok. EDIT: sorry I misunderstood. I thought it was the delta after 100 days vs initial.
- I can't imagine anything significant that happened during Truman's first few months that would make his approval rating go up /s
  
  I know it would jump but how was it that low to begin with? That's, like, insanely low it must have been below 10% Edit: sorry I misunderstood the chart
- Hitler was defeated during his first 100 days.
  
  Yeah but that would imply his approval was like 10 beforehand.....no way was it that low Edit: sorry I misunderstood the chart

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