SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTER
Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox.
5
#000000
#FFFFFF
5
#000000
#FFFFFF
'Mainly a Failure': Trump Approval Ratings Hit New Near-Historic Low
'There is no way to spin or sugarcoat these sagging numbers'
May 10, 2017
President Donald Trump's approval ratings have slipped yet again, falling to a near-record low of 36 percent, according to a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.
The survey of registered voters found that 58 percent disapprove of the job he's doing as president. When broken down into issues, the numbers are even more stark, with 59 percent disapproving of his handling of foreign policy and 62 percent disapproving of his take on immigration.
His approval ratings fell four points from the last Quinnipiac poll, released less than a month ago, including among the demographics that helped him get elected--white voters without college degrees, white men, and independents.
"There is no way to spin or sugarcoat these sagging numbers," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Many of his detractors said they saw his first 100 days as "mainly a failure" and expressed "deepening concerns about Trump's honesty, intelligence, and level headedness," Malloy said, describing those answers as "red flags that the administration simply can't brush away."
Moreover, a majority of respondents, 54 percent, said they want Democrats to take back control of House of Representatives. And 41 percent said that if Democrats had won the Senate in 2016, the country would be better off than it is now.
Quinnipiac's poll follows on the heels of a March Gallup poll that found Trump's ratings to be 39 percent--a historic low since Gallup began charting presidential approval in 1953. In fact, Trump broke his own low point, with his February approval ratings of 42 percent setting Gallup's previous record low.
Quinnipiac also asked respondents to say the first word that came to their minds when they thought of Trump. The answers spoke for themselves:
Quinnipiac conducted its poll May 4 to 9, surveying 1,078 voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.
An Urgent Message From Our Co-Founder
Dear Common Dreams reader, It’s been nearly 30 years since I co-founded Common Dreams with my late wife, Lina Newhouser. We had the radical notion that journalism should serve the public good, not corporate profits. It was clear to us from the outset what it would take to build such a project. No paid advertisements. No corporate sponsors. No millionaire publisher telling us what to think or do. Many people said we wouldn't last a year, but we proved those doubters wrong. Together with a tremendous team of journalists and dedicated staff, we built an independent media outlet free from the constraints of profits and corporate control. Our mission has always been simple: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. Building Common Dreams was not easy. Our survival was never guaranteed. When you take on the most powerful forces—Wall Street greed, fossil fuel industry destruction, Big Tech lobbyists, and uber-rich oligarchs who have spent billions upon billions rigging the economy and democracy in their favor—the only bulwark you have is supporters who believe in your work. But here’s the urgent message from me today. It's never been this bad out there. And it's never been this hard to keep us going. At the very moment Common Dreams is most needed, the threats we face are intensifying. We need your support now more than ever. We don't accept corporate advertising and never will. We don't have a paywall because we don't think people should be blocked from critical news based on their ability to pay. Everything we do is funded by the donations of readers like you. When everyone does the little they can afford, we are strong. But if that support retreats or dries up, so do we. Will you donate now to make sure Common Dreams not only survives but thrives? —Craig Brown, Co-founder |
Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.
Nadia Prupis
Nadia Prupis is a former Common Dreams staff writer. She wrote on media policy for Truthout.org and has been published in New America Media and AlterNet. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in English in 2008.
President Donald Trump's approval ratings have slipped yet again, falling to a near-record low of 36 percent, according to a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.
The survey of registered voters found that 58 percent disapprove of the job he's doing as president. When broken down into issues, the numbers are even more stark, with 59 percent disapproving of his handling of foreign policy and 62 percent disapproving of his take on immigration.
His approval ratings fell four points from the last Quinnipiac poll, released less than a month ago, including among the demographics that helped him get elected--white voters without college degrees, white men, and independents.
"There is no way to spin or sugarcoat these sagging numbers," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Many of his detractors said they saw his first 100 days as "mainly a failure" and expressed "deepening concerns about Trump's honesty, intelligence, and level headedness," Malloy said, describing those answers as "red flags that the administration simply can't brush away."
Moreover, a majority of respondents, 54 percent, said they want Democrats to take back control of House of Representatives. And 41 percent said that if Democrats had won the Senate in 2016, the country would be better off than it is now.
Quinnipiac's poll follows on the heels of a March Gallup poll that found Trump's ratings to be 39 percent--a historic low since Gallup began charting presidential approval in 1953. In fact, Trump broke his own low point, with his February approval ratings of 42 percent setting Gallup's previous record low.
Quinnipiac also asked respondents to say the first word that came to their minds when they thought of Trump. The answers spoke for themselves:
Quinnipiac conducted its poll May 4 to 9, surveying 1,078 voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.
Nadia Prupis
Nadia Prupis is a former Common Dreams staff writer. She wrote on media policy for Truthout.org and has been published in New America Media and AlterNet. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in English in 2008.
President Donald Trump's approval ratings have slipped yet again, falling to a near-record low of 36 percent, according to a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.
The survey of registered voters found that 58 percent disapprove of the job he's doing as president. When broken down into issues, the numbers are even more stark, with 59 percent disapproving of his handling of foreign policy and 62 percent disapproving of his take on immigration.
His approval ratings fell four points from the last Quinnipiac poll, released less than a month ago, including among the demographics that helped him get elected--white voters without college degrees, white men, and independents.
"There is no way to spin or sugarcoat these sagging numbers," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Many of his detractors said they saw his first 100 days as "mainly a failure" and expressed "deepening concerns about Trump's honesty, intelligence, and level headedness," Malloy said, describing those answers as "red flags that the administration simply can't brush away."
Moreover, a majority of respondents, 54 percent, said they want Democrats to take back control of House of Representatives. And 41 percent said that if Democrats had won the Senate in 2016, the country would be better off than it is now.
Quinnipiac's poll follows on the heels of a March Gallup poll that found Trump's ratings to be 39 percent--a historic low since Gallup began charting presidential approval in 1953. In fact, Trump broke his own low point, with his February approval ratings of 42 percent setting Gallup's previous record low.
Quinnipiac also asked respondents to say the first word that came to their minds when they thought of Trump. The answers spoke for themselves:
Quinnipiac conducted its poll May 4 to 9, surveying 1,078 voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.
We've had enough. The 1% own and operate the corporate media. They are doing everything they can to defend the status quo, squash dissent and protect the wealthy and the powerful. The Common Dreams media model is different. We cover the news that matters to the 99%. Our mission? To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. How? Nonprofit. Independent. Reader-supported. Free to read. Free to republish. Free to share. With no advertising. No paywalls. No selling of your data. Thousands of small donations fund our newsroom and allow us to continue publishing. Can you chip in? We can't do it without you. Thank you.