So the way it works is that they measure approval. They ask 100 people if they approve of him. 39 say they approve, 40 say they disapprove and 21 say they don’t care. They remove the people that said they don’t care and do the difference between people that approve and people that disapprove which is -1 so they report that his net approval rating is -1. 6 months later they ask 100 people again, 39 say they approve, 60 say they disapprove and 1 says he doesn’t care. Now his net approval is -21. So you can see that his base is still supporting him it’s just that people that previously didn’t care now care.
If only you could get them to care for more then a couple hours, there are a lot of republican voters who never pay any attention to anything, they go to the polls because they feel like they are supposed to, they vote R cause that’s what daddy did and his daddy before him all the way back to when the Republicans were the progressives, they are ideologically left of center. But they live in a hard R republican area, so they never meet progressives, if the bought gas a within a couple days of the pollsters calling they will say " I don’t think he’s doing so good" the rest of the time it’s “yeah he’s doing fine I geuss”.
I know these people I used to talk to them, they are the republican voters who aren’t always angry, they are just willfully ignorant.
Ok, then how is it possible that I’ve seen this exact headline, and dug in to find this exact 39% figure, dozens of times since 2016?
So the way it works is that they measure approval. They ask 100 people if they approve of him. 39 say they approve, 40 say they disapprove and 21 say they don’t care. They remove the people that said they don’t care and do the difference between people that approve and people that disapprove which is -1 so they report that his net approval rating is -1. 6 months later they ask 100 people again, 39 say they approve, 60 say they disapprove and 1 says he doesn’t care. Now his net approval is -21. So you can see that his base is still supporting him it’s just that people that previously didn’t care now care.
If only you could get them to care for more then a couple hours, there are a lot of republican voters who never pay any attention to anything, they go to the polls because they feel like they are supposed to, they vote R cause that’s what daddy did and his daddy before him all the way back to when the Republicans were the progressives, they are ideologically left of center. But they live in a hard R republican area, so they never meet progressives, if the bought gas a within a couple days of the pollsters calling they will say " I don’t think he’s doing so good" the rest of the time it’s “yeah he’s doing fine I geuss”.
I know these people I used to talk to them, they are the republican voters who aren’t always angry, they are just willfully ignorant.