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President Trump’s approval number hits a new low of 37% on Gallup’s daily tracking poll.
His disapproval sitting at 58% means the president is 21 points underwater.
Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president. Daily results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults
According to Gallup Polls, President Trump has slid to a -15 job approval rating (40% approve, 55% disapprove).
Is this the “winning” he kept telling us about during the campaign?
After interviewing almost 500,000 randomly selected adults in the U.S., a new Gallup survey finds the state with the highest percentage of self-identified LGBTs was Vermont with 5.3% of its citizens identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
5.3% – Vermont
4.9% – Massachusetts, California and Oregon
4.8% – Nevada
The District of Columbia (obviously not a state) had the highest population of LGBTs with 8.6%.
Which states have the smallest populations of LGBTs?
2% – South Dakota
2.7% – North Dakota
2.8% – Idaho
3% – South Carolina, Montana
Interesting to note: other than Nevada, the areas with the highest number of LGBTs tend to be coastal states. Those states with the lowest numbers tend to be in midwestern and southern states.
These figures indicate a rise in the nationwide LGBT population from 3.5% in 2012 to 4.1% in 2016.
Gallup believes that social acceptance is the leading factor to more Americans being willing to be open about their sexuality. The vast majority of increases in these numbers come from millennials.
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Some news items you may have missed:
• Woofy out Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims has re-introduced legislation that would ban so-called ex-gay/conversion therapy. Could we love this guy any more?
• White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says he doesn’t know if President Trump plans to retain or repeal the previous administration’s executive order that bans anti-LGBT discrimination among federal contractors in place.
• US intelligence teams are investigating calls between Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, and Russia’s ambassador to the US in regarding Russian activities in the US. Ruh-roh.
• A Texas state lawmaker has filed legislation that would completely remove access to abortion in his state saying it would “force” women to be “more personally responsible” with sex. Seriously?
• Donald Trump is the first president to begin his administration with less than 50% approval rating in Gallup Poll.
• Happy 84th birthday, 2-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera! I’ve found the gayest & grooviest dance clip I could to celebrate. Watch below:
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President-elect Trump lags far behind his predecessors in terms of how his constituents feel about him just after election.
Gallup Polls show, with only 42% favorability, he is by far the least popular president in decades.
At this point in their nascent presidencies, Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton enjoyed far better favorable numbers – 68%, 59%, and 58% respectively.
Good news for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as Gallup reports her Favorable score has not only surged in just the past few weeks, but surpassed her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders by 11 points.
Clinton’s net favorable score stands at +55 for the week of Feb. 18-24, 2016, a 10-percentage-point increase from her low point recorded over Jan. 27-Feb.10. This latter time period overlapped with her landslide loss to Sanders in the New Hampshire primary.
Sanders’ net favorable over the past week, by contrast, stands at +44, well below Clinton’s score and a steep fall from the +57 he boasted in late January/early February.
According to the latest Gallup U.S. Daily poll, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has seen his net favorable rating among Republicans drop a precipitous 28 points to a sad -1. He currently has a 44% Favorable rating versus his 45% Unfavorable rating.
That means Bush has the worst Net Favorable rating in terms of major political players in the GOP race.
Donald Trump comes in with 35% Unfavorable rating, second only to Bush. Think on that one for the current front runner – 35% of what should be his base have a negative view of him.
Interestingly, Sen. Ted Cruz has the lowest Unfavorable rating with only 16% of Republicans viewing him in negative terms.
Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was named “Most Admired Woman” for the record 20th time this year in Gallup’s annual poll.
President Obama was named “Most Admired Man” in the same poll.
Check the results here.
According to the latest Gallup poll, support for same-sex marriage in the U.S. has not been affected since the historic ruling by the Supreme Court in late June.
The decision was consistent with American public’s opinion on the issue.
Americans’ support for gay marriage has increased over time, from 27% in 1996, the first time Gallup asked about it, to the current 58%.
A consistent majority has favored it since 2011, including a high of 60% in May of this year.
The two-percentage-point difference between the May and July estimates is not statistically meaningful.
Gallup Polling reports that support for same-sex marriage has reached all-time highs among both political parties, which overall support now at 60%. This is up from last year’s “all-time high” of 55%.
The numbers break down like this: Democrats at 76% support, independents at 64% and Republicans at 37%.
That 37% for Republicans is up 7% from last year.
Also significant – last year, just 48% of Americans aged 50-64 supported legally recognizing gay marriage. But in 2015, this figure has climbed to a majority of 54%.