permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Washington (CNN)I noted in this space last week that President Donald Trump had tied his highest approval ratings -- 45% -- in Gallup's weekly poll. A week can change a lot, apparently.

In Gallup's new weekly poll released Monday, Trump's approval rating had cooled off to 41% while his disapproval shot up 5 percentage points -- up to 55%. It's easy to ascribe Trump's approval fade to his disastrous past week in which he badly underestimated the damage done by his administration's "zero-tolerance" policy at the border. Trump eventually flip-flopped on his insistence that an executive order wouldn't solve the family separation crisis but, even then, legal and logistical questions remained.
But in t***h, Trump's 41% approval could well be simply a return to normal. After all, Trump has averaged 39% approval in Gallup polling for the totality of his presidency to date. Trump's numbers among Republicans remain strong (90% approval last week, 87% this week) and his numbers among Democrats remain dismal (10% approval last week, 5% this week).
As Gallup's Jeffrey Jones notes:
"Past controversies, such as the ban on travel to the US from certain Muslim-majority countries, his firing of FBI Director James Comey, and Trump's reaction to the w***e s*********t-protester clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, brought him negative media attention. While each of these controversies did appear to cause slight and temporary declines in Trump's approval ratings, opinions of the President have been fairly well established from the outset."
Seen through that lens, Trump's numbers last week are the exception; his numbers this week are the rule. And it's not totally clear how Republicans should feel about that fact.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Polls are dependent on who is asked. If your target is to lower or raise ratings.
Remember the e******ns? Polls said that k**lary was a shoe in..... no need for Conservatives orr Republicans to even v**e.

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

I approve of president Trump 100%.

And to heck with the rest of you blue gummed Goobers.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

I read last night that Trump's approval among the GOP is 95%. I hope that's true, but I never trust polls, too easily slanted. If you want a DEM poll to win, you poll in certain places and the same for a GOP poll to win.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

It depends on how the GOP fairs in the midterms. If they win big, they'll kiss his feet as well as his ass, if they just keep their majority, they'll only continue to kiss his ass, but if they lose big.............they'll pretend they don't know him.

I'm still trying to figure out why the GOP is so enamored of their majority, I mean, beyond the enriching themselves factor, because they've not really done very much other than letting Trump do wh**ever he wants. They cannot get enough people in THIER OWN PARTY to agree on anything enough to get stuff done.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

I think the red tidal wave is almost a lead pipe cinch. If the GOP let Trump do wh**ever he wanted, Mitch would get rid of the 60 v**e requirement and Ryan would have allowed all GOP members to help write the immigration bill. It amazes me what he has been able to accomplish.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

It seems that group of 30 or so far right wingers are holding not only the country but their own party hostage to get their way or no way..

I am working as well as I can to help that blue wave we need..

Minnesota has a few peculiar problems this time around..

Lot of work to do..

I can not understand how anyone with any p***e or love for this nation can support trump..

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

It's easy, we just look at the current DEM leaders and it scares the hell out of us.