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The Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey (arstechnica.com)
President Donald Trump is the tweeting president. His @realDonaldTrump handle has 31.8 million followers and "35K" tweets. While the president claims to use Twitter to "get the honest and unfiltered message out," many Americans aren't so fond of his favored form of communication. According to a new voter poll (PDF), the public is growing tired of Trump's tweets. Ars Technica reports: A Morning Consult, Politico survey published Wednesday found that 69 percent of voters who took the online survey said they thought Trump tweets too much. That's up from 56 percent from December, months before Trump took office. The survey said that 82 percent of Democrats polled thought Trump tweets too much, up from 75 percent in December. Republicans came in at 53 percent saying the president used Twitter too often, an 11-percent increase from December. Overall, 57 percent of voters who took the survey said Trump's tweets are hurting his presidency. Another 53 percent said his Twitter use undermines U.S. standing in the world. The poll found that 51 percent of all voters said Trump's tweets imperiled national security. What do you think of Trump's tweets? Do you think they are getting old, or do you find them particularly useful?
Okie dokie, here ya go. Table POL17 starting page 164, I included select "conservative" breakdowns to give a better idea of potential bias.
Do you think President Donald Trump uses Twitter
Demographic | Too much | Not enough | About the right amount | Don’t Know / No Opinion | Total N
Registered Voters | 69%(1372) | 4%(79) | 15%(308) | 12%(241) |1999
PID: Rep (no lean) | 53%(361) | 6%(38) | 30%(205) | 11%(77) | 681
Ideo: Conservative (5-7) | 57%(394) | 4%(25) | 28%(194) | 11%(75) | 689
2016 Vote: Republican Donald Trump | 51%(400) | 6%(50) | 30%(240) | 13%(101) | 791
Strongly Approve | 39%(161) | 8%(35) | 42%(176) | 10%(43) | 415
Somewhat Approve | 58%(267) | 4%(18) | 20%(94) | 18%(84) | 462
BONUS! Table POL18, starting page 167.
And, do you think President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter is (POL18)
Demographic | A good thing | A bad thing | Don’t Know / No Opinion | Total N
Registered Voters | 23%(456) | 59%(1172) | 19%(372) | 1999
I leave the breakdowns as an exercise for the reader. (This formatting brought to you by the characters /.)
Politico is actually quite pro-Republican, so your ad hominem argument is false.
What's more, the recent "polls are bad" meme comes from the run-up to the 2016 election when polls showed Clinton winning, and then obviously did not. Polls are, in general, an estimate of opinion, and in that regard they were correct: in the final weeks her numbers were only decent, suggesting it would be a solid win but not a landslide, and in the end she did win the popular vote by approx 3 million.
What the pundits got wrong (which seemed a problem more with interpretation of polls than the polls themselves) was the distribution of that support, the actual likelihood of supporters to vote (vs. self-reported), or both, which is how Trump won the electoral vote (and, in the end, that's the only one that matters for choosing the President.)
which went almost unnoticed by the MSM.
Depends which MSM you're talking about. Everyone but Fox covered it, which is pretty much what you'd expect.
"Old man yells at systemd"
> no communications skills
The dude literally bullshitted his way to the presidency. He might not have a real foundation for his believes, but his communication and persuasion skills are top notch.
Trump did the morally right thing to do, and for that I respect him as a leader even more.
The morally right thing to do would have been to fire the liars. Trump didn't do that. He fired Comey ... for refusing to lie.
He doesn't make a fool of himself. The fact that you're repeating it over and over doesn't make it true.
In those 100 days you're vomitting on, he's already put in motion many things that benefit America, such as walking away from the TPP. Just that, right there, will help the American economy more than 8 years of Obama.
What the country needs is not diversity programs and federal laws about islamophobia and more dabbling into foreign policy that so far has led to the creation of ISIS, Al Qaeda and the religious government in Tehran (among others). What the country needs is jobs and highways that don't fall apart; so why don't you precious ones stop getting your panties in a bunch because you lost your elections and help the rest of us make America great again?
lucm, indeed.
While Trump dumb tweets like a maniac, the rest of the republicans sell parts of your country to the highest bidder and destroy the last shred of a social security system. And when you impeach Trump, you get Pence. The US is really fucked. Sorry.