Trump gets 41 percent job approval rating

Forty-nine percent of Americans in the new survey disapprove of the job the president is doing.

Winthrop says its poll – which surveyed 703 SC residents by landline and cell phones between February 12-21 – has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percent.

For Tennessee, those were Obama’s best approval ratings during his entire presidency.

– More than three-quarters of South Carolina Republicans said they are proud of the president, said he’s confident and said he stands up for people like them. The poll showed that 38 percent of voters approved of the gas tax and 28 percent disapproved. He won the state with 61 percent of the popular vote. Trump called the media “the enemy of the American people” in a tweet February 17, drawing widespread condemnation from journalists and defenders of the free press. Sen.

55 percent say that he does not have good leadership skills; 42 percent say he does.

Among independent voters, 56-percent disapprove of Trump, while 29-percent approve. Three percent say no illegal immigrants should be deported.

Cardin, Van Hollen and President Trump do have higher approval ratings in the poll than Congress. Tim Scott is doing, while 44 percent feel the same way about President Donald Trump, a new Winthrop University poll shows.

Taking into account party affiliation, almost nine out of 10 Democrats said they were anxious about the possibility of the USA going to war under Mr. Trump.

More encouragingly still, 52 per cent of respondents said that they trust the media, more than Trump to tell the truth about important issue. Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Between Feb. 12-16, 2017, Issues & Answers Network Inc. completed 600 telephone surveys for the poll among a random sample of registered Tennessee voters aged 18 and over.

Sixty percent of those surveyed were against building a wall on the Mexican border (37-percent supported it) and 65-percent were against it if the US had to pay for it. The average interview length was 13 minutes. Margins of error are based on weighted sample size.

Both polls used registered voters and both used live phone interviews of similarly sized samples roughly a week apart, so go figure why the numbers are so different.