Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

Positive Polling Trends for the GOP

June 22, 2018 By The Editors

President Donald J. Trump celebrates the passage of the Tax Cuts Act with Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan | December 20, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

The three big running poll averages tracked by RCP are narrowing in favor of the GOP this week. Those include:

  • President Trump’s Job Approval, which has been in the 7 – 7.5 Disapprove range for the last week or so. That’s the lowest it’s been since March of 2017. What that means is 7 percentage points more people disapprove of Trump’s job as president than approve. Still not great, but getting drastically better. His disapproval peaked out in December at around net 21 percentage points of people disapproving. So Trump has managed to impress 2/3rds of those net disapprovers since December.
  • The 2018 Generic Congressional Vote, which is seeing some solidification of voter feelings. What that means is, voters are coming off the sidelines and choosing whether or not they would vote for the GOP or Democrats. More of those folks are coming off and settling on the GOP side in the last week than the Democrat side. Both sides are picking up support, but the GOP at a faster rate, narrowing the gap to 6.1 points favoring Democrats (not a bad number).
  • Direction of the Country. This poll is probably the most interesting. Americans feel better about the direction of the country right now than they have since December of 2012. And that number was an anomaly. The last time there was such a high level of sustained “Right Direction” feeling about the country was back in Summer of 2009, the early Obama days when everyone thought he was going to make all the pain go away.

Given the trend of those polls, it’s no wonder Democrats are flinging the immigrant children story at the wall to see if it will stick. They need big, headline grabbing events to take away from the sustained economic gains that are pushing sentiment in favor of Trump and the GOP (though probably less so for the party).

It will be interesting to see what the Democrats try next, because Trump has mostly cut the issue short by signing an executive order banning family separations. It would be nice if the GOP could get some momentum going by pushing some legislation that people might actually support, but as Dick Young writes today, they have shown no signs of actually doing that.

Related Posts

  • A GOP Post Election Assessment
  • Good News for the Senate GOP
  • The Sparky GOP Debate
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
The Editors
Latest posts by The Editors (see all)
  • TERROR TACTICS: Globalists Use Fear to Demand Compliance - February 3, 2023
  • Are Flights About to Get MORE Expensive? - February 3, 2023
  • Is Amazon’s Slowdown a Warning? - February 3, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Tom Brady Is Proof You Shouldn’t Retire if You Still Love Your Work
  • Paris, The Palace Hotels: Part I
  • TOP HEAVY: Focus on Big Indexing Could Cause Market Chaos
  • YOU DESERVE FREEDOM: Your Hard Work Will Make It Happen
  • Are You Prepared to Run Out of Water?
  • Your Best State on Guns, Plus the 8th Wonder of the World
  • The Worst President in American History, Part I
  • My Key West Garden Office
  • Marry Compound Interest, Divorce Market Timing
  • Boom—Your Life Changes

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Will Western Tanks Be a Game Changer in Ukraine?
  • Warren Miller: If You Don’t Do It This Year, You’ll Be…
  • Europe Should Protect Itself
  • “I Will Veto Everything They Send Me”
  • How to Fight Wokism Idiocy
  • US Debt Now Exceeds Annual GDP?
  • The Neocon Russia-Hoaxers of Hamilton 68 Must Be Held Accountable
  • What Kind of Life Are You Investing For?
  • Why Don’t These Mayors Seem to Care?
  • SEN. KENNEDY: This Is How to Fix Biden's Border Disaster

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Retirement Life: Adventure Awaits
  • UK Takes Aim at the Cryptocurrency Industry
  • Early Advice from Her Dad on Tipping at Charlie Trotter’s
  • Do You Trust This Rally?
  • Reagan’s America Remembered by Your Survival Guy and More
  • What Happens if the “Fed Put” Is Over for Good?
  • Tom Brady Retires, Again. Should You?
  • What Kind of Life Are You Investing For?
  • Warren Miller: If You Don’t Do It This Year, You’ll Be…
  • Are the Realists Winning the Debate over the Future of EVs?

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Your Retirement Life: Adventure Awaits
  • Zumwalt-Class Guided Missile Destroyers to Get Hypersonic Weapons
  • Early Advice from Her Dad on Tipping at Charlie Trotter’s
  • Treasury Bonds Ready to Rock and Roll
  • Survive and Thrive February 2023: 4 Life Changing Words: “You Should Try This”
  • Tom Brady Retires, Again. Should You?
  • Reagan’s America Remembered by Your Survival Guy and More
  • America’s Unprecedented Debt Problem
  • Iran’s Ballistic Missiles Could Give Russia the Edge in Ukraine
  • What Kind of Life Are You Investing For?

EVs and Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery

USA and Russia: A Global War for Resources?

TERROR TACTICS: Globalists Use Fear to Demand Compliance

Your Retirement Life: Adventure Awaits

Are Flights About to Get MORE Expensive?

Dick Young: Learn from Hillsdale College Online

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives