Miller is a worthless asshole. Even more reason to tell Trump and Miller to pound sand.
LockerK
1626
It’s not clear to me how this stops him from either calling his own press conference and calling it the SOTU or tweeting it out 280 characters at a time. Hell, not having to speak in front of Congress is probably a reward for him.
TBH, the SotU is pretty much meaningless party politics grandstanding from any side. It can never be held again and I won’t mourn.
Oh, there will be tweeting, rest assured. DJT may even just let Miller tweet out his racist bilge under his twitter account.
On the one hand, Trump hates having to read long chunks of serious text full of big werds.
On the other hand he loooooooves the idea of making every single DC bigshot come to him to pay homage, which is more or less how the traditional State of the Union plays out on TV.
He can stage his own event, but it’s not gonna be the same.
How can 7% of the people have NO OPINION?
Q1. (A1) Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
Jan 10, 2019: Approve 37%, Disapprove 57%, no opinion 7%
Jan 2017: Approve 44%, Disapprove 53%, no opinion 3%
As for support for a wall:
Jan 2019: 39% favor, 56% oppose, 5% no opinion
Sept 2015: 52% favor, 47% oppose, 1% no opinion
I can only assume no opinion is not having the gumption to admit Trump is a moron and a dick. Oh, or it means they still approve but are too ashamed to admit it to someone over the phone.
magnet
1632
“No opinion” includes respondents who are undecided. And I think it’s entirely plausible that 7% of those polled are undecided.
That is my guess as well. After having 2 additional years to formulate an opinion while being front and center of the public eye, it seems incredible that people genuinely having no opinion increase so much - from 3 to 7%.
Some people consume zero news and really have no idea what’s going on or why. And they don’t care.
magnet
1635
QT3 P&R has had two years to form an opinion on James Comey, yet I bet if someone polled us that a fair number would respond “undecided”.
Despite Comey not being analogous to Trump (as there probably isn’t anyone), you think the opinion polling for Comey would show “no opinion” increased by 133% from this point 2 years ago?
The fact that his approval fell while “no opinion” went up over the course of a year strongly suggests that those 4 percentage points of new “no opinion” folks are people who just don’t want to admit to themselves that they were wrong.
magnet
1638
I think “undecided” increases whenever someone loses support. It’s a reflection of doubt, and people don’t just flip their opinion overnight.
So it makes sense that this is happening to Trump now. Likewise, if Comey suddenly lost support among Democrats (eg, declaring that a sitting president should not be indicted) then I expect his “undecideds” would increase too.
There is no basis for deep psychoanalysis. It reflects increasing skepticism, that’s all.
rowe33
1639
I imagine some folks are working through tough feelings, like this:
“Well I was with him when he wanted to fuck the immigrants, lock those damn brown kids up, and his pro-Nazi stance, but damn, this shutdown might be the difference maker. Need to rethink my support!”
Yeah, and I think that is what wisefool and I were getting at too - that these people truly do not hold “no opinion” but that they are likely former “approves” who can’t bring themselves to say “disapprove”.
“I really like a lot of what he’s done, but he’s fucking over the wrong people right now! Undecided!”
Like I said, can’t admit to themselves that they were wrong! : )
KevinC
1643
Seriously, what a badass.
ShivaX
1644
“No opinion” can also mean “didn’t give a conclusive answer” in these things.
Having done surveys/poll at one point in my life, if you give someone two or three options a fair section of the populace will never fucking give you an answer.
“So would you say Agree, Disagree or Undecided?”
“Yes.”
“Yes to?”
“Yes.”
“So would you say Agree, Disag…”
“Maybe.”
There are people who filled in C and D bubbles on standardized tests when the entire test was True/False.
