• @[email protected]
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    46 months ago

    Approval is not the same as “won’t vote for”, and even if it was, if enough of the other guy’s base won’t vote for him an unpopular person can still win. There’s nothing incompatible about an unpopular candidate leading in polls. Whoever wins this election will have a net-negative approval rating.

    • Blackbeard
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      36 months ago

      I also question whether or not we’ll ever see significant, sustained net approval of a President in the internet/social media age. Information is so decentralized and echo chambered now that there will simply never be a shortage of media describing why President ______ is bad and everyone is poor and in mortal danger.

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        15 months ago

        Obama was pretty firmly in the internet age, and left office in his second term with an approval rating of 55%.