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Trump’s Support Falling Among Swing-State Voters Who Elected Him, Recent Polls Find
“Trump continues to be deeply unpopular. His standing is a mirror opposite of Obama and Bush at this point in their first terms.
Each held a 59 percent job approval rating in Post-ABC polling,” the Post wrote.
“Half of Americans say Trump is doing a worse job than most past presidents, while just under one-quarter say he is doing better.”
growing number of voters in counties that flipped from blue in 2012 to red in 2016 were having the political equivalent of buyer’s remorse.
“his approval rating in these counties is down from his winning percentage in these areas in November 2016,” NBC’s news team wrote.
“In the ‘Flip Counties’—think places like Luzerne, Pa., which Obama carried 52 percent to 47 percent, but which Trump won, 58 percent to 39 percent—Trump’s job rating stands at just 44 percent.
Trump won these ‘Flip Counties’ by a combined 51 percent to 43 percent margin a year ago.”
NBC also polled Trump’s standing counties that were won in 2012 by Mitt Romney and where he “surged” and won by larger margins in 2016.
“In the Trump ‘Surge Counties’—think places like Carbon, Pa., which Trump won, 65 percent to 31 percent (versus Mitt Romney’s 53 percent to 45 percent margin)—56 percent of residents approve of the president’s job performance.
But in 2016, Trump won these ‘Surge Counties’ by a combined 65 percent to 29 percent.”
These are big drops among two classes of swing voters in swing counties in swing states.
NBC soft-pedals its conclusion, saying, “Bottom line: Even in places that he won in 2016, he’s taken a hit when it comes to his approval ratings.”
If these polls are anywhere near correct, it shows
Trump is still ahead in reliably red counties—reliably red in that a majority voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
However, a majority of voters in crossover counties, who previously supported Obama, have abandoned Trump. (Only 44 percent approve.)
The counties polled were in 16 states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/..._poll_20170718
Trash doing awesome, indeed!after only 6 months.
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what trump tries to avoid at all cost:
the press
discussing issues
criticism
investigation
transparency
work (on weekends)
who trump runs to when hes under pressure:
putin
sycophants
golf course
worst president ever, biggest pussy to ever hold office. how embarrassing it must be to be a cheerleader for this pathetic loser.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...hdog-says.html
USPS broke law in allowing workers to boost Clinton campaign, watchdog says
The United States Postal Service violated federal law by letting employees do union-funded work for Hillary Clinton's campaign and other Democratic candidates while on leave from the agency, according to an Office of Special Counsel report obtained by Fox News.
The OSC determined the USPS "engaged in systemic violations" of the Hatch Act, a federal law that limits certain political activities of federal employees. While employees are allowed to do some political work on leave, the report said the Postal Service showed a "bias" favoring the union's 2016 campaign operation.
The investigation was launched months ago after Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., brought cons uent complaints to the OSC in October. The cons uent, identified as a USPS employee, was concerned the Postal Service “incurred unnecessary overtime costs” and “improperly coordinated” with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) when it released members for several weeks of “union official” leave without pay to participate in campaign work.
“The Labor 2016 program sought to ‘elect Hillary Clinton and pro-worker candidates across the country,’” the report said, citing campaign work like door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and other get-out-the-vote efforts.
HILLARY CLINTON SIDED WITH RUSSIA AS BILL MADE $$ IN MOSCOW
According to the report, roughly 97 NALC members requested the leave without pay to participate. The NALC, which endorsed Clinton last June, compensated those USPS workers using the Letter Carrier Political Fund, the union’s PAC.
Officials at multiple levels apparently were involved.
According to OSC Acting Special Counsel Adam Miles, the NALC provided lists of letter carriers to participate in campaign activity to a senior headquarters USPS labor relations official, who then emailed the lists to other USPS officials across the country. According to Miles, the local officials “interpreted the communications as directives” from USPS headquarters to release the carriers on union official leave without pay.
According to the report, local supervisors raised concerns about the impact this would have on postal operations and initially objected to releasing them, but USPS managers instructed local supervisors to let the workers participate.
“We concluded that the USPS practice of facilitating and directing carrier releases for the union’s political activity resulted in an ins utional bias in favor of NALC’s endorsed political candidates, which the Hatch Act prohibits,” Miles said in prepared testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is set to hold a hearing Wednesday on the matter.
But USPS Postmaster General Megan Brennan said that “senior postal leadership did not in any way guide union leadership in selecting the candidates for whom NALC employees could campaign” and that USPS “did not approve or choose candidates for the unions to support” or “ask the union to advocate for political candidates on behalf of the Postal Service.”
“I also note that our postal unions do not speak for the Postal Service, and the Postal Service does not speak for our unions,” Brennan wrote in her prepared testimony, insisting USPS did not seek to assist the NALC’s “favored candidates.” “This especially applies in a political context, but it is inherent in any collective bargaining relationship.”
Brennan said that the practice to grant leave without pay for NALC political activity has been in place for approximately 20 years, but that all violations of the Hatch Act were “unintentional.”
“We will change our practice in consultation with the OSC and based upon OSC’s guidance. This will ensure that we do not put our people in harm's way and they do not unintentionally run afoul of the Hatch Act,” Brennan said. “As we have previously communicated to both this committee and to the OSC, and as the OSC has acknowledged, the Postal Service has always been ready, willing and able to end or modify our practice as appropriate, consistent with OSC’s recommendation.”
HATCH ACT EXPLAINED: WHAT IS THE FEDERAL LAW?
The Hatch Act is a federal law that limits certain political activities of federal employees. The law’s purpose is to ensure federal programs are “administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation,” according to the OSC. The office is an independent federal agency that monitors compliance with that law and others.
Miles, in his prepared remarks, said the OSC investigation revealed the NALC-USPS practice is “long-standing, going back many election cycles, and perhaps started in the 1990s.”
“As a federal en y, the USPS must remain politically neutral,” Miles' testimony said. “In many localities, the Postal Service is a citizen’s primary point of contact with the federal government, reinforcing the need for strict adherence to the letter and the spirit of the Hatch Act.”
OSC recommended in the report that, going forward, USPS management should not require, direct or suggest local supervisors release union members to engage in political activity.
Miles added: “OSC has communicated these recommendations to USPS, and agency representatives appear ready to take the steps necessary to comply with the Hatch Act.”
where's trump throwing temper tantrums late night on twitter. very adult.
companies paying Trump NOT to have his name on their buildings
Canada slapping Trump
More SICK OF WINNING!
Supreme Court allows more exemptions to Trump travel ban
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ban/492235001/
Catholic Bannon getting his Muslim-hate pushed in
Fake cartoon
Wahhhh the fake media is baaad
so where are his tax returns?
one has to wonder what he's worried about. there's something, there always is
Why that funny, Chris?
The Russians have it along with pee pee tape.
What do you like about the NAACP?
Done good work overall.
What you think funny, Chris?
Like dives ure, it's not the law for him.
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