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New Reuters/Ipsos poll: Buyer's remorse in some Trump voters.
Reuters:

While most of the people who voted for Trump on Nov. 8 said they would back him again, the erosion of support within his winning coalition of older, disaffected, mostly white voters poses a potential challenge for the president. Trump, who won the White House with the slimmest of margins, needs every last supporter behind him to push his agenda through a divided Congress and potentially win a second term in 2020.

The poll surveyed voters who had told Reuters/Ipsos on Election Day how they had cast their ballots. While other surveys have measured varying levels of disillusionment among Trump supporters, the Reuters/Ipsos poll shows how many would go as far as changing the way they voted. The survey was carried out first in May and then again in July.

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In the July survey, 12 percent of respondents said they would not vote for Trump "if the 2016 presidential election were held today" - 7 percent said they “don’t know” what they would do, and the remaining 5 percent would either support one of the other 2016 presidential candidates or not vote.

Eighty-eight percent said they would vote for Trump again, a slight improvement over the May figure of 82 percent. Taken together, the polls suggest that Trump’s standing with his base has improved slightly over the past few months despite his Republican Party’s repeated failures to overhaul the healthcare system and multiple congressional and federal investigations into his campaign’s ties to Russia.

To be sure, most presidents lose support among core supporters the longer they are in the White House. According to the Gallup polling service, former President Barack Obama saw his popularity dip among Democrats and minority voters, though it did not come until later in his first term. But Obama, who won the Electoral College with greater margins than Trump, was not as reliant on retaining his core supporters.


Cheers,
Scott.
New There may be a twisted "logic" on the part of some of his supporters that explains that.
Eighty-eight percent said they would vote for Trump again, a slight improvement over the May figure of 82 percent.

A while back I believe I posted (I at least saw and heard) about a group of Trump supporters being interviewed by CNN. One of them was able to get her anti-psychotic meds because of the ACA. When asked how she felt now with the Republican effort to repeal the ACA, she and another of them said they were very worried. They'd been told what they'd get would be better, but they didn't think the Congress would go along with Trump in repealing the ACA in any case, his promises to do so notwithstanding. In a very twisted sort of way, these people may actually feel vindicated in their assessment and, consequently, feel better about how they cast their vote last November.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
New "Twisted logic" is the definition of Trump voters.
New I bet they're mostly the independents.
They had to think and make a choice. The real base doesn't think, they just feel.
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
New And hate.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
     Reuters/Ipsos poll: Buyer's remorse in some Trump voters. - (Another Scott) - (4)
         There may be a twisted "logic" on the part of some of his supporters that explains that. - (mmoffitt) - (1)
             "Twisted logic" is the definition of Trump voters. -NT - (Andrew Grygus)
         I bet they're mostly the independents. - (a6l6e6x) - (1)
             And hate. -NT - (mmoffitt)

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