{"id":39348,"date":"2018-10-04T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39348"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:15:22","slug":"winning-donald-trump-thanks-notoriously-biased-pollster-for-his-pitiful-approval-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39348","title":{"rendered":"WINNING? Donald Trump Thanks Notoriously Biased Pollster for His Pitiful Approval Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing is more predictable from Donald Trump than his knee-jerk tributes to himself and any “positive”<\/em> news regarding him. Unfortunately, given his penchant for screw ups, gaffes, and policies that are roundly rejected by most Americans, he has precious few opportunities to boast. But that doesn’t stop him from doing it anyway, even when the news is bad.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday morning Trump tweeted a valentine to himself in the form of a poll result that showed him with a fifty percent approval rating. To brag about a rating that only puts you at even illustrates just how desperate Trump is for anything upbeat he can promote to mitigate the tsunami of bleakness that surrounds him. But to rest his gloating on a poll by Rasmussen<\/a><\/strong>, the most disreputably partisan pollster<\/a><\/strong> in America, just makes him seem all the more pathetic. Particularly when that same poll shows Trump with a forty percent “strongly disapprove”<\/em> rating and only thirty-seven percent “strongly approve.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump frequently alerts his Twitter cult followers when Rasmussen spikes a bit. Never mind that the numbers always take a dive shortly thereafter. Here are some recent examples from just this year alone, including today’s:<\/p>\n

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Working hard, thank you! pic.twitter.com\/6HQVaEXH0I<\/a><\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n