Reporters and political commentators often express frustrated surprise at the steadfast support of President Trump from most Republicans in the House and Senate. But they shouldn’t — it has happened before. In fact, when these critics refer back to the Watergate era as a time of bipartisan commitment to the […] Read more »
The most important difference in polling about Trump and Nixon
… Democrats hate Trump more than they hated Nixon. The lowest approval rating Nixon ever saw from Democrats was 11 percent — right as he was leaving office. More than 11 percent of Democrats have approved of Trump in only two weeks of Gallup polling, including his first week in […] Read more »
Nixon, Watergate and Partisan Opinion
… By the time of the Saturday Night Massacre, on October 20, 1973, Nixon’s approval had already reached its “steady state” low point, with almost no change until the bitter end. The Massacre itself and subsequent revelations, including tape transcripts, and impeachment proceedings did little to reduce his approval ratings. […] Read more »
Trump is as strongly disliked now as Nixon was before he resigned
… A new Marist College poll finds that 20% of Americans rate President Donald Trump’s job performance as excellent, 20% as pretty good, 13% as only fair and 45% as poor. … Trump has, throughout his first term, maintained a low but fairly steady approval rating. He’s also had a […] Read more »
Americans distrusted US democracy long before Trump’s Russia problem
Historically, the high-water mark for American dissatisfaction with government was the 1970s — the era of Vietnam, Nixon and Watergate. AP Photo/John Duricka Ian Anson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County White House special counsel Robert Mueller recently issued 12 indictments alleging that Russian intelligence agents sought to tilt the vote […] Read more »
Obama Tops Public’s List of Best President in Their Lifetime, Followed by Clinton, Reagan
When asked which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, more Americans name Barack Obama than any other president. More than four-in-ten (44%) say Obama is the best or second best president of their lifetimes, compared with about a third who mention Bill Clinton (33%) or Ronald Reagan […] Read more »