Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

That "incompetent idiot who opened her doors to foreign powers and let them have access to classified information", "known perjurer and destroyer of evidence", "the one who sold access to our power structure", murderess etc. Got 2,900,000 more votes than your lying POS and your Reflublicans have total control of American Justus and can't even get her on a parking ticket. Now that is funny as hell.

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

Keep repeating that and laughing about our ineptitude. That will make it all the sweeter when her untouchable evil is finally brought to justice. That day is coming my friends. I just hope her vile health doesn't claim her first.

kemmer

Mrs Clinton will send Xmas cards to Trump in Leavenworth.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

What will come first, Jesus or a conviction?

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

I wonder what the postmark from Gitmo looks like?

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

Good question, although both are a certainty.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Trump's Approval Rating Shows He's Stronger Than Dems Think

(CNN) When President Trump takes unimaginable steps like separating little children from their families to prove a point about how tough he is willing to be on the borders, there is a natural inclination for Democrats to predict that he finally took a step too far. He finally did something that would break the camel's back, he has given the nation a reason to believe he is not fit to serve.

But before Democrats assume that the crisis on the border will bring this President down, they might want to take a look at the recent poll numbers from Gallup. Despite everything that has happened over the last year and a half, the findings show that the President is not quite as weak as some of his opponents are hoping. Last week his job approval rating averaged 45%, the highest that it has been since his first week in office and, this week, slipped slightly to 41%.

Indeed, his job approval ratings have remained in the 40s since mid-April when unemployment rates plummeted to historically low levels. Just as notable is the political breakdown of his rating, with a 38% approval among Independents and 87% among Republicans. If one adds a grade curve to these numbers, it's clear that outside of the Democratic Party, his approval is holding steady.

His rating now is similar to Jimmy Carter (42%), Ronald Reagan (44%), Bill Clinton (44%) and Barack Obama (47%) in June of their second years. The good news for Democrats is that all four of those presidents experienced difficult midterm elections. In 1978, the conservative coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats cut into the size of Carter's Democratic majority, with the emergence of new firebrands like Newt Gingrich of Georgia who were determined to cause the President problems.

Four years later, the Gipper lamented as House Democrats increased their majority by 26 seats, with most of the gains being liberal Democrats. And of course, Clinton saw Republicans regain control of Congress in 1994 and Obama watched as the GOP took over the House in 2010. None of this bodes well in 2018 for the Republicans, who are likely staring at a difficult midterm.

But the 2020 outlook, the one that really matters to President Trump -- who, we must remember, is not particularly interested in legislation anyway -- is a bit brighter. While Carter ended as a one-term president, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama all went on to be reelected and ended their presidency with strong approval ratings. They are presidents who are often seen by significant swaths of the public as successful and even transformative.
There are a number of factors clearly behind the job approval numbers for President Trump. With an unemployment rate of 3.8% as of last month, everyone in the administration will be feeling pretty good if it's true that voters pick presidents based on the health of their wallets.

The overall state of the stock market doesn't hurt matters either. For all the eye rolls and shoulder shrugs, along with the occasional statement by a Republican that things are not right in Washington, the numbers reveal that his partisan support remains very strong. This is why so few Republican politicians are running away from the President and his decisions, while more and more are embracing his leadership. Notwithstanding the horrific stories of children detained in warehouse-like facilities, a good portion of the public supports President Trump.

The message for Democrats should be clear. The political battle to come in the next few months is going to be fierce. The party is going to need to put together an awesome electoral mobilization, with exciting candidates and big ideas, a first-rate ground game, a strong-fund raising strategy, and a sophisticated plan for the media if they are going to do that one thing that would be guaranteed to bring the era of Trump to an end: defeat him in the 2020 election. The new numbers for Gallup show that this goal will not be an easy one to achieve.

kemmer

Trump politically is dead man walking.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

In your dreams.

kemmer

Why, almost 2 years in, are trumpkins still insanely obsessed with Hillary Clinton?

JRumeryjr

Look at all the mess he's made since becoming "King Idiot"

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Jean Deaux

Wadda matah whchou? You simply regurgitate what your party and it's press are trying to pass off as legitimate in hopes you can pollute the whole basket of fruit. ABC is hardly a hallmark of accuracy in news circles, in fact none of the MSM relates the truth. If you are gullible enough to eat their infested bread, you are gullible enough to get the worms that follow. Didn't you follow the last election in which the pollsters predicted Trump's crushing defeat? Hang onto your hat, this next one is going to be a really rough ride for zealot dimocrats. Be happy in your delusion but stop trying to spread it; it is simply a dimocrat political disease designed to confuse the minds of those incapable of critical thought.

Jean Deaux

Guess who called it right? Sure enough wasn't any of your vaunted network champions, the same ones who are still trumpeting Trumps defeat. Follow your dimocrat pied piper to your political end, but stop whining and trying to recruit conservatives to your pathetic cause.