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To: longnshort who wrote (1053755)	2/8/2018 7:29:45 AM
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Republicans Better Hope Voters Think About the Economy—and Forget About Trump—This November By JOSH VOORHEES FEB 07, 20186:47 PM TWEETSHARECOMMENT President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday in Washington. Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images A new national poll out Wednesday tells us something we already knew: Donald Trump is not a popular president. According to the survey from Quinnipiac University, only 40 percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing, far less than the 55 percent who disapprove. That translates to a net-rating of negative-15, a historically dismal showing by almost any standard—except that is, by the one Trump has set for himself during his first year in office. The overwhelming disapproval is all the more remarkable given Americans’ strongly positive feelings about the economy. In the same poll, 70 percent of respondents described the U.S. economy as either “excellent” or “good,” the highest number to do that since Quinnipiac started asking that question way back in 2001. For Republicans, that number represents at least a glimmer of hope for riding out an anti-Trump wave. A quick but necessary caveat: The Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday is but one poll (margin of error: plus-or-minus 3.3 points) among many, from one polling outfit among many. But in this case, the results line up closely with the major polling averages. In RealClearPolitics’ unweighted one, Trump’s approval rating is now at 42.4 percent, the highest it has been in about nine months, and his disapproval rating is at 53.8 percent, the lowest it has been in more than four. The number-crunchers over at FiveThirtyEight paint a similar picture with their weighted average.