Seven Out Of Ten Americans Say The Country Is Headed In The Wrong Direction Under Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump frequently casts his first year in office as a string of successes and campaign promises fulfilled. But less than a quarter of Americans think Trump has made good on the pledges he made to voters while running for president, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Among Republicans, just half say Trump has kept his promises, which included vows to overhaul his predecessor’s health care law, withdraw the United States from a nuclear accord with Iran and invest millions in new projects to fix the nation’s aging infrastructure. None of those steps have been taken.
“Everything has stalled out,” said Mark Krowski, 37, an independent from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who leans Republican but didn’t vote for Trump last year.
As 2017 comes to a close, the majority of Americans painted a broadly pessimistic view of Trump’s presidency, the nation’s politics and the overall direction of the country. Just three in 10 Americans said the United States is heading in the right direction, and 52 percent said the country is worse off since Trump became president — worrisome signs both for the White House and Republicans heading into a midterm election year where control of Congress will be at stake.
Along with the 23 percent who think Trump has kept his promises, another 30 percent think he has tried and failed and 45 percent think he hasn’t kept them at all.
In a second AP-NORC poll conducted this month, Trump’s job approval rating sits at just 32 percent, making him the least popular first-year president on record. A quarter of Republicans say they’re among those who disapprove of the president.
One relative bright spot for Trump? The improving economy.
With a soaring stock market and unemployment hovering around 4 percent, 40 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of the economy. That’s higher than the three in 10 Americans that approved of the president’s handling of health care, foreign policy or taxes.
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The reason polls like this are interesting because Trump and his fans repeatedly claim that "the people" are behind him.
There is absolutely no evidence that the American people support Trump or believe he is good for the country.
During the election Trump and the Republicans often talked about the "wrong direction" findings in the polls back then.
There has not been a smidge of improvement in that regard under Trump.
Polls, as you know John, are NOT reliable.
" So what’s the solution for election polling? There isn’t one. Our old paradigm has broken down, and we haven’t figured out how to replace it. Political polling has gotten less accurate as a result. We’ll have to go through a period of experimentation to see what works, and how to better hit a moving target.
Those paying close attention to the 2016 election should exercise caution as they read the polls. Because of the high cost, the difficulty in locating the small number of voters who will actually turn out in primaries and the increasing reliance on non-probability Internet polls, you are likely to see a lot of conflicting numbers. To make matters still worse, the cellphone problem is more acute in states than it is at the national level, because area codes and exchanges often no longer respect state or congressional boundaries. Some polling organizations will move to sampling from voter lists, which will miss recently registered voters and campaigns’ efforts to mobilize them.
We are less sure how to conduct good survey research now than we were four years ago, and much less than eight years ago. And don’t look for too much help in what the polling aggregation sites may be offering. They, too, have been falling further off the track of late. It’s not their fault. They are only as good as the raw material they have to work with.
In short, polls and pollsters are going to be less reliable. We may not even know when we’re off base ."
Try another thread. Your poll threads are redundant and inaccurate.
Polling is an accurate, but not perfect way to gauge public opinion. The idea that polls are worthless is nonsense.
If the pollsters are saying the polls are unreliable - why are you arguing the opposite?
With the advent of technology, polling is purely a hit-and-miss process. Read the thread. To get 1,000 responses, you have to call 20,000 numbers. 1-of-20???? Ain't very reliable to me.
Polls only mean something to a Trump supporter when they favor Trump. Even then, they tend to show him as being barely favorable.
Polls like this have become useless now because almost all news is disseminated with a strong political bias. If so-called "journalists" keep telling people that the country is moving in the wrong direction, people will come to believe it. Then they poll those people and release the results on "the news." The partisan beast feeds itself.
Spot on!
However, eventually I think their bias is going to blow up in their faces......when it becomes too Obvious that things are getting much better.....and not because of President Obama.
Polls reflect the popularity, not the electorate. Polls in a presidential election are completely worthless. The rest of the time, polls are, (if done in a non-biased way), usually pretty accurate. RCP is probably the most accurate because they use an average of all the polls in the USA and with more data, comes more accuracy.
Hi Mr. Frost.....Hope you are having a nice day.
I think this will all fall out this way......If the economy is going well while Republicans are in office......They will continue to do well in the elections......If that goes sour.....then they will not.....