{"id":2467,"date":"2020-04-05T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2020-04-05T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:51:23","slug":"trumps-coronavirus-poll-bump-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s coronavirus poll bump, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“To progressives, America\u2019s flailing response to the coronavirus pandemic<\/a> is everything that\u2019s been terrifying about a Donald Trump presidency<\/a> since his candidacy started gaining steam \u2014 dishonesty, disrespect for expertise, lack of focus and attention to detail, all colliding with a genuinely difficult policy problem to create a lethal catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s sobering, then, to realize that Trump\u2019s approval ratings, while not exactly good, have been steadily rising since mid-March<\/a> to reach the highest point since the earliest daysof his presidency. After an up-and-down associated with the impeachment process followed by the recent decline, he\u2019s now up to about a 45 percent approval rating from around 40 percent at the beginning of November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to contextualize this a bit, essentially all incumbent leaders appear to be benefiting from a coronavirus-related bump. Compared to the governors of hard-hit states or the presidents and prime ministers of hard-hit foreign countries, Trump\u2019s bump is actually quite small, amounting to maybe 2 or 3 points. Compare that with foreign leaders like France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron or Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel, who have seen double-digit increases in their approval ratings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Siena College poll released Monday<\/a> showed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) enjoying a 20-point boost in his approval rating.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/3\/31\/21199702\/rally-round-the-flag-coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“To progressives, America\u2019s flailing response to the coronavirus pandemic is everything that\u2019s been terrifying about a Donald Trump presidency since his candidacy started gaining steam \u2014 dishonesty, disrespect for expertise, lack of focus and attention to detail, all colliding with a genuinely difficult policy problem to create a lethal catastrophe.
\nIt\u2019s sobering, then, to realize that Trump\u2019s approval ratings, while not exactly good, have been steadily rising since mid-March to reach the highest point since the earliest days of his presidency. After an up-and-down associated with the impeachment process followed by the recent decline, he\u2019s now up to about a 45 percent approval rating from around 40 percent at the beginning of November.<\/p>\n

But to contextualize this a bit, essentially all incumbent leaders appear to be benefiting from a coronavirus-related bump. Compared to the governors of hard-hit states or the presidents and prime ministers of hard-hit foreign countries, Trump\u2019s bump is actually quite small, amounting to maybe 2 or 3 points. Compare that with foreign leaders like France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron or Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel, who have seen double-digit increases in their approval ratings.<\/p>\n

A Siena College poll released Monday showed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) enjoying a 20-point boost in his approval rating.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[638,588,409,483,221,637],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bump","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-polling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}