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- 49% of Democrats are angry about the midterms, compared with 28% of GOP voters.
- Democrats were almost twice as likely as Republicans (44 percent vs. 24 percent) to choose a negative emotion to describe their feelings.
- Democrats have also grown wearier over the direction of their party.
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Kind of a double edge sword so I'll take the pessimistic view:
The negative emotions will drive Democrats to the polls while the positive emotions will lead to GOP complacency.
I think Americans will defend a president unfairly attacked. While he is not on the ballot I do think he will influence the mid-terms.
Still too early but just look at the crazy TDS just here, big help to Republicans and a second Trump term.
CS has a point. First things first is that the party in power loses support at the polls in almost every case.
Quinnipiac poll found that Trump's approval is down to 38%.
The Democrats are highly motivated by the President. Republicans have a record approval rating for a President.
American voters believe 51 - 35 percent "that the Russian government has compromising information about President Trump," according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.
Republicans don't believe 70 - 18 percent there is compromising information, the only listed party, gender, education, age or racial group which does not believe it, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University National Poll finds. Two other groups are divided:
44 percent of white voters with no college degree believe the Russians have something and 43 percent don't believe it;
42 percent of white men believe it and 43 percent don't believe it.
The U.S. and Russia share the blame for the relationship between the two countries, 54 percent of U.S. voters say, while 38 percent say Russia is to blame and 4 percent say the U.S. is to blame.
The Helsinki summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was a failure for the U.S., voters say 52 - 27 percent. The summit was a success for Russia, voters say 73 - 8 percent.
Trump was not acting in the best interest of the U.S., voters say 54 - 41 percent.
"Whether it is with love or not, President Donald Trump's relationship with Russia has delivered a small blow to his already poor standing with the American people," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
"Following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Trump's job approval is back below 40 percent again.
"The president gets a split 49 - 47 percent score on the economy, but he receives negative reviews on his handling of a bevy of international problems and especially his relationship with Russia."
President Trump should defend all of America's NATO allies, American voters say 78 - 16 percent.
A total of 68 percent of American voters are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about President Trump's relationship with Russia, while 32 percent are "not so concerned" or "not concerned at all."
President Trump's Approval Rating
American voters give President Trump a negative 38 - 58 percent job approval rating, compared to a negative 43 - 52 percent rating in a June 20 Quinnipiac University Poll after the summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The president's only clear support among listed groups is from Republicans, who approve 82 - 15 percent, and white evangelical Christians, who approve 71 - 26 percent. White voters with no college degree are split 49 - 47 percent and white men are divided as 49 percent approve and 47 percent disapprove.
Voters disapprove 58 - 38 percent of the way Trump is handling foreign policy and say 51 - 35 percent that he has weakened the U.S. position as leader of the free world.
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There is something there. A blue wave?
It's approximately 103 days until the election. I don't see the White voters with no college degree are split 49 - 47 percent and white men are divided as 49 percent approve and 47 percent disapprove will turnout is sufficient numbers to keep the House of Representatives majority.
If the Democrats take the house they will assume the Constitutional role as a check on Presidential authority.
Nothing on the recordings?
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2557
Trump can say that the sky is not blue, you would find a way to say that the Democrats are hypocrites.
The negative emotions will drive Democrats to the polls while the positive emotions will lead to GOP complacency.
i disagree. there is a wave of positivity that the GOP is riding that will be sustained. his rally's indicate this.
couple that with the newly minted USSC justice kavanaugh and i think GOP turnout will be just as strong as in 2016.
Trump can say that the sky is not blue, you would find a way to say that the Democrats are hypocrites.
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OH, YOU'RE FAR FAR WORSE THAN SIMPLE HYPOCRITES.
YOU'RE LOWDOWN TRAITORS.
Thank you Mr President.
General Motors shares tumbled Wednesday after the largest U.S. automaker cut its profit outlook for the year, citing higher costs for raw materials and unfavorable foreign exchange rates in South America. Steel and and aluminum prices have been on the rise since the Trump administration imposed tariffs on the auto industry's two key raw materials.
The automaker now expects to earn about $6 per share in 2018, down from its previous forecast of $6.30 to $6.60 a share. GM shares were down more than 6 percent in early trade.
Rival Fiat Chrysler on Wednesday also cut its outlook for the year and its shares were down more than 8 percent before the market's open. Ford, which reports after the market closes on Wednesday was down close to 3 percent.
General Motors shares tumbled Wednesday after the largest U.S. automaker cut its profit outlook
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"Outlook" dumbass. "Outlook."
Just a snapshot in time.
We are becoming a Banana Republic dictatorship.
The White House is no longer going to provide readouts to journalists of Trump’s phone calls with foreign leaders, which means that the American people will have less information about what Trump is doing.
CNN reported:
The White House has suspended the practice of publishing public summaries of President Donald Trump’s phone calls with world leaders, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell CNN, bringing an end to a common exercise from Republican and Democratic administrations.
It’s unclear if the suspension is temporary or permanent. A White House spokesman declined to comment.
The phone calls are good for public transparency. The American people are informed of who the president is talking to and what they are talking about. The phone calls are also diplomatic tools that used heavily coordinated. A readout of a phone call between the president and foreign leader can be an important piece of foreign policy news and useful for an administration to get their message out there.
Trump does not want the American people to know what he is doing and saying, which is why he continues to hold private meetings with foreign leaders with no administration officials present. Trump despises transparency and accountability. He doesn’t want his country to know what he is discussing with Putin or Kim Jong-un.
The decision by the White House not to provide readouts of Trump’s calls is a bad day for democracy.
CNN reported:
The White House has suspended the practice of publishing public summaries of President Donald Trump’s phone calls with world leaders, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell CNN, bringing an end to a common exercise from Republican and Democratic administrations.
name your 'sources.' until then i'll check my outrage.
also, cnn... if true you have only yourselves to blame for this. trump wasn't in office a month and transcripts of his calls with world leaders were leaked to attack and cause embarrassment to the white house.
i'll drop this into the category of stripping the 0linsky-ites of their security clearances.
a damn good idea.
They are just bad people.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/trump-will-go-dangerously-incompetent-president-history-heres/
If you had been born in Germany about 1910 you would have been cheering Seig Heil.
"Readouts of the president’s phone calls offer the only official account that a phone call occurred between Trump and another world leader."
BIG DEAL!!!!
They are just bad people.
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YES YOU ARE.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
They are just bad people.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/trump-will-go-dangerously-incompetent-president-history-heres/
hey rog, you probably don't realize this but the author of your piece - thom hartmann - was an on air host for RT - RUSSIAN television.
so i will assume this post was your way of outing yourself as a russia sympathizer and stooge for putin.
well played.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If you had been born in Germany about 1910 you would have been cheering Seig Heil.
and if you had been born in america around 1910 you would've been a child member of woodrow wilson's Committee for Public Information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information
The first modern propaganda ministry in the Western world, the Committee for Public Information, dispatched an army of nearly 100,000 agents to foment passion for the war and distrust of German Americans and others. The CPI’s “Four Minute Men” were equipped and trained to deliver a four-minute speech at town meetings, in restaurants, in theaters — anyplace they could get an audience — to spread the word that the “very future of democracy” was at stake. In 1917–18 alone, some 7,555,190 speeches were delivered in 5,200 communities.
Wilson considered German-American citizens and other “hyphenated Americans” to be enemies of the people: “Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready.”
The German language was barred from public in many parts of the country. German authors were purged from libraries, families of German extraction were harassed and taunted, sauerkraut became “liberty cabbage,” and — as Sinclair Lewis half-jokingly recalled — there was talk of renaming German measles “liberty measles.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/woodrow-wilson-red-scare-true-hysteria/
Toronto shooting rampage: New details emerge about gunman Faisal Hussain
the amish really need to calm down and get their shit together.
A South Dakota lawyer. His father was a US Senator from South Dakota. I met him a couple times.
Scrambling to soften the blow of his destructive trade wars, President Trump is offering a $12 billion bailout for farmers facing retaliation from America’s trading partners hurt by his tariffs. It’s a desperation move, and it won’t do much to reverse the damage the administration has inflicted by senselessly raising duties on steel, aluminum and other imports from Canada, Mexico, the European Union, China and elsewhere.
Mr. Trump’s tariff increases were never needed in the first place. Indeed, the plan to pay off farmers — theoretically, voters in many of the president’s political strongholds — is the latest in a series of incoherent and haphazard economic decisions that the Trump administration has made in recent months, often in an attempt to clean up after it failed to think through the consequences of its earlier actions. In retaliation for Mr. Trump’s tariffs, China, the European Union, Mexico and other countries quite predictably imposed tariffs on soybeans, corn, pork and other products, and so — equally predictably — demand, and therefore prices, dropped for these commodities. The agriculture sector is understandably upset. But a one-time payment is no way to fix this problem the president created.
That’s why even lawmakers from farm states don’t like the president’s approach of using a Depression-era program known as the Commodity Credit Corporation to help farmers. Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, likened the plan to spending “$12 billion on gold crutches.” He added, “This administration’s tariffs and bailouts aren’t going to make America great again; they’re just going to make it 1929 again.” In April, after the administration floated the idea of helping farmers hurt by foreign tariffs, Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who heads the agriculture committee, told reporters, “We don’t need another subsidy program; we need to sell our product.”
Mr. Trump’s decision to pay farmers could run afoul of commitments the United States has made at the World Trade Organization not to unfairly subsidize its agricultural sector. That could give other countries, which will now be worried that their farmers will be at a competitive disadvantage, a reason to further retaliate against the United States. Countries have often fought about agriculture subsidies. For example, the Obama administration accused India of unfairly subsidizing its farmers, and Brazil has long complained about American farm programs.
The Trump administration’s plan to rush taxpayer money to farmers it is hurting could also prompt other domestic industries hurt by the president’s trade wars to demand bailouts. Why shouldn’t manufacturing companies and other businesses ask to be made whole for having to pay higher prices for steel and aluminum after Mr. Trump raised tariffs on those metals?
What about the workers at Harley-Davidson who will lose their jobs when the company moves some production overseas to avoid the European Union’s retaliatory tariffs on American motorcycles? And surely the administration is distressed by the plight of bourbon producers in Kentucky and Tennessee that have also been subject to higher tariffs from the Europeans?
On Tuesday afternoon lawmakers were already pointing out the administration’s disparate treatment of industries that have been hurt by Mr. Trump’s trade wars. Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, identified two that are important to her state: seafood and energy. “I have a seafood industry up north that is not considered to be farmers,” she said. “We’re farmers of the sea.”
The list of industries seeking help from the government could ultimately end up including much of the American economy if Mr. Trump carries out his threats to impose even more tariffs. In recent days he has threatened to impose new tariffs against all $500 billion of imports from China and against European cars. (The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, will visit Washington on Wednesday in an effort to persuade the administration not to impose those tariffs.)
“Tariffs are the greatest!” Mr. Trump tweeted early Tuesday morning. In March, he wrote that “trade wars are good, and easy to win.”
Donald J. Trump
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Tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that - and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the “piggy bank” that’s being robbed. All will be Great!
The plan to help farmers reveals instead that trade wars are complicated and difficult. Yes, the American piggy bank is now being robbed — but it’s the president and his aides who are raiding it, to cover up the costs of policies they still show little sign of understanding.
Wilson attempted to censor the free press. It was disgraceful.
You can no understand that I am not an ideological person. I can see the whole picture. You're blinded by hatred and anger.
alky, you're one of the hackiest hacks i've even seen. and i live in NY. a place where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting several dozen screaming liberal hacks.
The plan to help farmers reveals instead that trade wars are complicated and difficult. Yes, the American piggy bank is now being robbed — but it’s the president and his aides who are raiding it, to cover up the costs of policies they still show little sign of understanding.
we just lived through 8 years that culminated in the DOUBLING of our national debt, with absolutely NOTHING to show for it.
anyone who supported and cheered on that rip off probably ought to stay quiet right now.
American piggy bank is now being robbed"
Answer us this, who is getting the money?
You do know that Tarrifs being collected by our Government is being used to fund the Ranchers and Farmers.
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