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wvParticipantnewsweek:http://www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-states-rating-poll-805561
Trump’s Net Approval Rating Is Positive in Just 19 States, Half As Many As At the Start of His PresidencyAfter one year in office, President Donald Trump has a positive net approval rating in only 19 U.S. states, half as many as when he first took office in January 2017, according to the latest polling data.
While the Republican has seen a slight increase in overall net approval rating over the past several months, Trump’s work during his first year in office was widely panned by respondents, Morning Consult’s data from all 50 states released Tuesday showed.
Last month, Trump had a 44 percent approval and 51 percent disapproval rating among registered voters. Those numbers still represented a two-point increase in net approval rating—the difference between approval and disapproval ratings—in September and a four-point jump compared to October and November.
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But while Trump’s overall numbers may have improved recently, over the past year he’s lost support from more than a dozen states. When he first entered office in January 2017, Trump had a positive net approval rating in 38 U.S. states. West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Wyoming led the pack, all with a net approval rating of at least 34 percent.
Trump managed to maintain those strongholds but has since seen his net approval drop across the country. Even in West Virginia, Trump went from a 37 percent net approval to 22 percent over 12 months. Similarly, Kentucky and Tennessee both went from 34 percent to 16 percent, while Alabama dropped from 36 percent to 29 percent.
Those drops weren’t the only bad news for the president. The number of respondents who strongly disapproved of Trump’s performance also climbed significantly. A year ago, 28 percent strongly disapproved of Trump, but last month that number had increased to 39 percent. Conversely, 27 percent strongly approved in January of last year, and now only 22 percent have the same feeling.
Still, Trump has managed to rally Republican support as 2018’s midterm elections draw closer. Last month, 48 percent of GOP voters strongly approved of Trump’s work, a significant increase from 43 percent in September.
The data was based on Morning Consult surveys taken between January 20, 2017, and January 29 of this year and drew responses from more than 800,000 voters from all 50 states.
February 27, 2018 at 9:19 pm in reply to: teachers (images/ideas of teachers in the wake of Florida) #83245wvParticipantFebruary 27, 2018 at 4:40 pm in reply to: some tweets, 2/26, including on Peters on NFL.net … & the interview (vid) #83241wvParticipantYeah, he is not Lawrence Phillips or Pacman Jones. Strikes me as more of a Terrell Owens, but with anger outbursts instead of big ego outbursts.
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Agree. I think his teammates will like him.
Who knows though.
…i ‘do’ think there will be an incident or two next season. He’s never gonna be Aeneas Williams 🙂
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantHenry Giroux:http://noliesradio.org/archives/143487
“make the larger connections”
“its not about whether we wanna take away your guns, its about whether we wanna live in a democracy….”
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vFebruary 27, 2018 at 7:46 am in reply to: some tweets, 2/26, including on Peters on NFL.net … & the interview (vid) #83231wvParticipanti gotta say, watching that innterview, i like him. he may be crazy. but i like him. i just hope he’s able to mature.
i think this guy has it all – just has to learn how to keep his emotions in check.
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I liked when he noted how he will miss his team-mates. And he named some of them. That was genuine.
I’m sure there will be incidents in the future, but my impression is he can be reasoned with.
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vFebruary 27, 2018 at 7:13 am in reply to: teachers (images/ideas of teachers in the wake of Florida) #83230wvParticipantAll West Virginia public schools remain closed as teachers continue to strike
All 680 public schools in West Virginia are closed for the third day as thousands of teachers walked out to fight for higher wages and benefits — a first in the state’s history. According to the National Education Association, WV educators are the 48th lowest-paid in the country.
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Health care is a big part of it.
February 26, 2018 at 11:56 pm in reply to: some tweets, 2/26, including on Peters on NFL.net … & the interview (vid) #83227wvParticipantFebruary 26, 2018 at 10:57 pm in reply to: some tweets, 2/26, including on Peters on NFL.net … & the interview (vid) #83223wvParticipantinterview
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Gotta say, I was expecting to have a worse reaction to the interview.
My gut sez, he’ll be ok.
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vwvParticipant“…During his remarks on Monday, Mr Trump told governors not to “be afraid” of clashing with the National Rifle Association (NRA) – a powerful pro-gun lobby which has opposed several of Mr Trump’s proposals.
“Don’t worry about the NRA, they’re on our side,” he said.
“And you know what, if they’re not with you, we have to fight them every once in a while. That’s OK. They’re doing what they think is right.”…
————–Gotta say, Trump was politically-masterful there.
Sigh.
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vwvParticipantWell this is the kind of sentence i see over and over in the NYTimes, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc:
“…The Kremlin’s grip on its old Soviet sphere was especially precarious in the early aughts. President George W. Bush’s democratic agenda espoused an almost messianic sense of how the United States could unleash a new age of freedom…”
The ‘liberal’ assumption of the basic goodness of the USA-agenda.
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vwvParticipantCNN:https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/22/politics/donald-trump-gun-reforms-school-shooting/index.html
…”These people are cowards. They’re not going to walk into a school if 20% of the teachers have guns — it may be 10% or may be 40%. And what I’d recommend doing is the people that do carry, we give them a bonus. We give them a little bit of a bonus,” Trump said. “They’ll frankly feel more comfortable having the gun anyway. But you give them a little bit of a bonus.”
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah told reporters after Trump’s comments that the proposal hasn’t reached the policy or legislative point yet, but downplayed questions about how the plan would be funded.“I think that if we find the policy solutions that make the most sense that we can get buy in for, we’ll figure out the rest of the pieces that you outlined,” he said…
wvParticipantI might be in favor of arming the orcas. At least until they can unionize.
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Guns dont kill people ; Orcas kill people.
wvParticipantArmed teachers. That’s totally insane..
Well I think the pro-armers are thinking it would be a deterrent.
I dont think it would be, but even if it were a deterrent, wouldnt the shooter just go elsewhere to shoot people? A church or a library or wherever?
I suppose the next step would be to arm church-goers and libraries….once you start down that policy of arming teachers, you have to arm pretty-much everyone. Which is what the NRA and gun-sellers want, i guess.
What if a hospital gets shot up? Arm the patients? The nurses?
What if Seaworld gets shot up? Arm the Orcas?
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vwvParticipantMy response to that is the the empowerment of owning a gun is a response to the fear, and their response to a hostile world.
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Definitely.
As noted by others, many countries have lots of guns, but not as much gun-violence. So I guess in those other gun-toting-nations, people just
dont have as much fear. Maybe their world is less ‘hostile.’w
vwvParticipantWell if they dont pick an LT, and Whitworth goes down what will they do?
I suppose move Saffold to LT and scrounge for a guard to replace Saffold.
Maybe it works, i dunno.
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vFebruary 24, 2018 at 6:47 pm in reply to: Schefter: “Rams finalizing trade with Chiefs for CB Marcus Peters #83124wvParticipantThat being said, I would… Pay Tru. You could have a “Broncos/Seattle type secondary. What a defense this could be.
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It ‘would’ be great to have Tru and Peters.
Then you just sign Quinn and ADonald. And draft a great Pass-rusher…and…wow.
Then again, there’s still that LT situation. The one situation that
could wreck the whole season.w
vwvParticipantWell if thats the deal I like it a lot.
Though I’d like to know what the ‘condition’ is for the third rounder next year.
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vwvParticipantPS- …back to teachers and guns….I was thinking in the car today…Lets say Trump were to push through his idea that teachers who get gun training should get raises etc….and lets say Teachers start carrying guns routinely…..over the long haul…would that have an effect on the KIND of people who want to become teachers?
Would youngsters who go into elementary ed be more likely to be males now? Would they be more like young people who want to be cops? Would the teacher-culture kinda change?w
vwvParticipantBut that isn’t the part of the post I was interested in getting feedback on because years of experience with emerging writers has already convinced me of that part of it.
What interests me is this idea that guns themselves are so intractably part of a person’s identity that “gun nuts” are actually incapable of holding an open conversation about guns. Guns are an extension of Self for a large number of Americans. .
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Well that has simply not been my experience here in WV. And i talk to gun-lovers all the time. Every day, really. White, male, law-enforcement folks, hunters, survivalists, etc.
And i just dont see the “guns as part of Identity” thing. I always think that sounds like a liberal, academic description of somethin I aint never really met.
What i ‘do’ see is what i already noted — fear. People with real fears of brutality, rape, humiliation, bullying, chaos, government-collapse… and of course fears of Alex-Jones-type-paranoid-government-domination.
I ‘dont’ see Guns as “part of anyone’s Identity”. Thats just not what the real appalachian folks seem like when I talk to em.
I dunno though. Maybe i just dont really understand the identity thing.
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vwvParticipantAlso, in a related angle:
I think too much of the critique regarding the existence of media’s focus on Russia-gate overlooks another obvious fact…The GOP and Trump run the entire show…
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Well, If you are saying Trump is a narcisstic dangerous lying surreal-nightmare,
i agree.I’m less interested in ‘that’ these days, than the question
of what Trump ‘means.’ I mean the voters have gone from electing Franklin Roosevelt to Donald Trump. I dunno what that means. But i will think about it till i die.w
vwvParticipantWhen you get the time… How is the system taking advantage of this? Do you see it as a similar opportunity to 9/11 and Bush and company’s exploitation of that?
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Yes. I think its just like the 9/11 thing — yes, the US was attacked…but the system ‘used’ the incident to do all kinds of hideous things, from war, to Patriot Act, to McCarthy-izms galore, etc.
I see the same thing happening with russia-gate. I mean even after 9-11 the corporate-internet didnt suppress TruthDig.
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vwvParticipantI don’t know how the gun lobby has succeeded in convincing so many people it isn’t the guns.
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Well, i dont have the answers and i dont know all the various reasons so many americans want/need various kinds of guns. But i dont think i need to tell you, ‘part’ of the psychology here is simply – fear. Fear of ‘crime,’ fear of gangs, fear of rapists, fear of humiliation, fear of bullies, fear of crumbling american system, fear of government…
Some of those fears are kinda justified and some are wacko. There’s a spectrum of fear.
Many west virginians just do…not…trust…the government to make the call as to who gets guns and who doesnt. And they know that a gazillion guns are ALREADY on the street — so they want guns to protect themselves from the guns that are ALREADY out there. Its kindof a catch22 or 23 or somethin. If there werent so many guns out there, they wouldnt feel the need to have more guns themselves.
In WV they dont just want guns btw. They want bullet proof vests too. You see those a lot around here 🙂
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vwvParticipantSo, wv, how do you explain why jerks with guns never shoot up a police station?
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Because the police have lots of trained shooters with lots of weapons, i would think.
Believe it or not, NM, giving teachers guns and gun-training doesnt really concern me one way or the other. It might help in some cases, and it might lead to more deaths in other cases (kids grabbing guns, teachers with mental breakdowns, etc).
But i still think — though its a bandaid reform, and it wont ‘solve’ the problem — its a good idea make it harder for anyone convicted of domestic abuse to get weapons. And its a good idea to make it harder for people found mentally incompetent to get guns. And its a good idea to make it harder for people to get automatic weapons or to get clips with large capacities.
Just seems sensible to me. Small reforms. Tinkering. Might save fifty lives or so a year. Sigh.
I also think the speed limits should be dropped. Probly save a lot more lives that way.
The american gun issue isnt really my thing. I’m more interested in all the ‘quiet’ ways the American system kills poor people at home, and all the violent ways the american system kills brown people abroad.
Hope you are doing well, my friend.
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vwvParticipantEat raisin toast. And more pie.
That should do it.
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vFebruary 23, 2018 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Schefter: “Rams finalizing trade with Chiefs for CB Marcus Peters #83045wvParticipantObviously, young Mr McV thinks he can handle the head-issues.
We shall see.
I aint seen too many players outgrow that ‘over-the-top-Emotionism’ thing.
Usually ya just gotta work around it. ‘Manage’ it.w
vFebruary 23, 2018 at 3:01 pm in reply to: Schefter: “Rams finalizing trade with Chiefs for CB Marcus Peters #83043wvParticipant============
La Ram
A number of things at play here:
– Teams don’t trade young all-pro corners in today’s game
– I think Peters has created more turnovers than any player in the league over the last several years
– What kind of value must that type of player carry?
– What will the Rams sacrifice in players, draft picks and salary?
– He’s a headcase who can be a disruption in the clubhouse and during gamesNot sure how I feel about this!
============February 23, 2018 at 1:47 pm in reply to: Schefter: “Rams finalizing trade with Chiefs for CB Marcus Peters #83036wvParticipantI dont know anything about this CB. Is he as good as Tru? Better? Different?
Does this mean Tru is gone?
I read somewhere the Rams might be giving up a first round pick for him. ??
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