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As Democrats were mounting their resistance to President Trump's first major legislative initiative, an overhaul of the Obama-era healthcare law, a new national poll was released by Suffolk University showing that the opposition party had some of the lowest approval ratings.

November 8, 2016, was the ultimate poll, and it saw Democrats lose the House, the Senate, the White House and seats in state houses across the country. But after Trump's first fifty days in office, the latest poll showed there was no rebound for Democrats. Donald Trump, who currently ranks as the most unpopular president in modern American history polled nine points ahead of the Democratic Party. And disapproval of Democrats was four points higher than Republicans.

Adding insult to injury, a new book is trending as Amazon.com's #1 best-seller titled, "Reasons to Vote for Democrats" by Michael Knowles. What is the book about? About 266 pages of blank paper.

"It took a very long time to research this book," Knowles admitted in a Fox News interview. "When I observed their record and reasons to vote for them — on reasons of economics or foreign policy or homeland security or civil rights and so on — I realized it was probably best to just leave all the pages blank."

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‘Disaster’ Poll Shows Democrats Less Popular Than Trump, GOP Or Media

President Donald Trump may tweet too much, but his approval ratings are higher than those of the media and the opposition Democrats, a new poll has shown. The results are ringing alarm bells among some liberals.

A USA Today/Suffolk University poll, conducted in the first week of March, shows Trump’s approval rating at 47 percent, and his personal favorability at 45 percent. Sixty percent of respondents disapprove of his temper, and 59 percent think he tweets too much.

While USA Today called Trump’s approval “a poor rating by historic standards,” the numbers looked even worse for his opponent in the November 2016 presidential election and the opposition Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton recorded only a 35 percent approval rating, while the Democrats were at 36 percent.

Latest Suffolk poll should be a wake up call to Democrats pic.twitter.com/OyJ1VvhRH8

— James C Mazareas (@Jamie_Maz) March 8, 2017

“This is a disaster. At a time when Donald Trump is the least liked president ever measured at this point in his first term, the Democratic Party has found a way to be even less liked than him. This is how Donald Trump wins a second term,” progressive activist Shaun King wrote in the New York Daily News on Thursday.

The Democratic party “struggles to hear the truth about itself,” King added, and pointed out that most Democrats he spoke with could not tell him what the party stands for.

Last month, the Democrats elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as their new National Committee chair. Perez was backed by Clinton and former President Barack Obama, while his principal rival, Rep. Keith Ellison (R-Minnesota) enjoyed the support of the left wing of the party, led by independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

The party’s poor showing in the Suffolk poll is even more significant when considering that the sample of 1,000 registered voters included 352 Democrats, 330 Republicans and 318 independents.

Broken down by party affiliation, Trump’s approval rating is much higher among Republicans (88 percent) and is higher than disapproval among independents by 2 percentage points. More Democrats (11 percent) approve of Trump than Republicans disapprove (8 percent).

Slightly fewer Democrats (7 percent) and Republicans (86 percent) have a favorable opinion of Trump personally, with independents holding steady at 44 percent.

A whopping 93 percent of Republicans, 61 percent of independents, and even 15 percent of Democrats have an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton, while slightly more independents (57 percent) disapprove of Democrats than of Republicans (51 percent).

While the respondents mostly disagreed (59 percent) with Trump’s description of journalists as “enemies of the people,” the majority of Republicans (78 percent) and independents (56 percent) had an unfavorable view of the media, along with 19 percent of Democrats.

Most of the respondents disapproved of Trump’s temperament (60 percent) and thought he was tweeting too much (59 percent), but 55 percent agreed that he has “shown leadership” and 46 percent believe the country is headed in the right direction – a 12-point swing up from the same poll in December 2016.

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Too many smoking guns ... - G

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agree with much of this, and some not so much. There are plenty of people to not trust, but he's our president so this is very important. Plus, Trump is a lying sack of you know what - verifiable, proven, in stone, in the bank and making interest. If he were clean he'd be more helpful and his minions would lie less - neither are happening. So... let's dig in with an independent committee (as independent as possible) and find out if he's clean (one bent farthing says he's dirtier than a pig in slop).

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I have this image, of people looking over a large map, or perhaps a large diagram together, and saying things like " ...but we need to increase our resources here, so we need to ..." Yanno kind of like our groundwater is handled ... practically and without drama. Why can't WE ... PEOPLE ... manage our own affairs like that?

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Take the family of a friend of mine, a guy who came from one of those Midwestern cities that sociologists used to descend upon periodically because it was supposed to be so “typical.” It was a middling-sized industrial burg where they made machine tools, auto parts, and so forth. When Reagan took office in 1981, more than half the working population of the city was employed in factories, and most of them were union members. The ethos of the place was working-class, and the city was prosperous, tidy, and liberal, in the old sense of the word.

My friend’s dad was a teacher in the local public schools, a loyal member of the teachers’ union, and a more dedicated liberal than most; not only had he been a staunch supporter of George McGovern, but in the 1980 Democratic primary he had voted for Barbara Jordan, the black U.S. Representative from Texas. My friend, meanwhile, was in those days a high school Republican, a Reagan youth who fancied Adam Smith ties and savored the writing of William F. Buckley. The dad would listen to the son spout off about Milton Friedman and the godliness of free-market capitalism, and he would just shake his head. Someday, kid, you’ll know what a jerk you are.

It was the dad, though, who was eventually converted. These days he votes for the farthest-right Republicans he can find on the ballot. The particular issue that brought him over was abortion. A devout Catholic, my friend’s dad was persuaded in the early nineties that the sanctity of the fetus outweighed all of his other concerns, and from there he gradually accepted the whole pantheon of conservative devil-figures: the elite media and the American Civil Liberties Union, contemptuous of our values; the la-di-da feminists; the idea that Christians are vilely persecuted— right here in the U.S. of A. It doesn’t even bother him, really, when his new hero Bill O’Reilly blasts the teachers’ union as a group that “does not love America.”

His superaverage Midwestern town, meanwhile, has followed the same trajectory. Even as Republican economic policy laid waste to the city’s industries, unions, and neighborhoods, the townsfolk responded by lashing out on cultural issues, eventually winding up with a hard-right Republican congressman, a born-again Christian who campaigned largely on an anti-abortion platform. Today the city looks like a miniature Detroit. And with every bit of economic bad news it seems to get more bitter, more cynical, and more conservative still.

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Originally posted by second:
I have this image of a town failing and the people don't have sense enough to leave it or to fix it so it does not sink. Like a crew, they go down with their ship because they don't know how the pumps in the engine room work and they won't get into the lifeboats. They stay and become bitter and, until they die, blame faraway Washington DC for problems that could be easily fixed locally by moving to Elsewhere.

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I have this image of a town failing

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and the people don't have sense enough to leave it or to fix it so it does not sink.

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Like a crew, they go down with their ship because they don't know how the pumps in the engine room work

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and they won't get into the lifeboats

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They stay and become bitter and, until they die, blame faraway Washington DC for problems that could be easily fixed locally by moving to Elsewhere.

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:

Not everybody has the vast amounts of resources you have at your disposal. Most of us don't have lifeboats. You make "golden parachute" type of money, so what would you know about anything?

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Ok! And for god sakes, let's not elect a lying salesman Secretary of State as president!

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Giuliani Surrenders, Poses for Mugshot at Georgia Jail

https://www.nysun.com/article/giuliani-surrenders-poses-for-mugshot-at
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