From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
       
   January 15:   
      
   How will Trump wishcast the latest polling data?   
      
   Very little about the government shutdown is funny, but we should savor the   
   exceptions. Jared Kushner’s confidence that the polling about the partial   
   shutdown would swing significantly in President Trump’s direction certainly   
   falls into that category.   
    Even last week, the polling suggested that this was false.   
      
   FiveThirtyEight’s Janie Velencia noted on Wednesday: “Trump’s efforts to   
   pin the blame on Democrats aren’t working, according to three pollsters who   
   have conducted at least two polls in the two and a half weeks since the   
   government first closed.     
   Rather, polls show that Americans are increasingly blaming Trump.”   
       
   Since then, the numbers have gotten worse for Trump.   
      
   During the weekend, polls came out from both CNN and The Washington Post-ABC   
   News, both of which show grim top-line numbers for Trump.  CNN’s Jennifer   
   Agiesta reports that “the public generally is more apt to blame the   
   President, with 55% saying he    
   is more responsible for the shutdown than are Democrats in Congress, while 32%   
   say the blame rests mostly with the Democrats.”   
      
   The Post’s Scott Clement and Dan Balz report similar numbers from the   
   Post-ABC poll: “53 percent say Trump and the Republicans are mainly at   
   fault, and 29 percent blame the Democrats in Congress.”  Both surveys also   
   show majority opposition for    
   building a U.S.-Mexico border wall, and CNN shows a dismally low 37 percent   
   approval rating for Trump, with 57 percent disapproving.   
      
   What should really scare Trump is that, according to Agiesta, “the increase   
   in disapproval for the President comes primarily among whites without college   
   degrees, 45% of whom approve and 47% disapprove, marking the first time his   
   approval rating with    
   this group has been underwater in CNN polling since February 2018."   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/15/how-will-trump   
   wishcast-latest-polling-data/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f8409b325c72   
      
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