Approval/Disapproval Polls

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This is the kind of advocacy poll where you need to see the questions to understand the outcomes, but interesting even assuming the intent was to solicit (encourage?) some of the negative opinions about tax cuts and benefit cuts.


  • "... More than two thirds of voters think that wealthy individuals (67%) and large corporations(70%) pay too little in federal taxes. Nearly half of Trump voters (49%) think wealthy individuals pay too little and 56% think large corporations pay too little. Fully seven in ten voters who identify as “working class” think that the wealthy pay too little in federal taxes.
  • Substantial majorities of voters would like Congress to increase taxes on wealthy individuals (57%) and large corporations (64%). Among working-class voters, large majorities would like Congress to raise taxes on large corporations (67%) and wealthy individuals (62%).
  • Only 27% of voters want Congress to cut taxes for wealthy individuals, and even fewer want Congress to cut taxes for large corporations (15%). Among Trump voters, just 38% would like Congress to cut taxes for the wealthy, and only 25% want to see tax cuts for large corporations.
  • More than three in four voters (76%) would DISapprove of Congress passing additional tax cuts for wealthy individuals, including 49% who would strongly disapprove. Just 24% would approve, including only 11% who would strongly approve.
  • Fully 84% of voters who identify as “working class” and more than two in three Trump voters (67%) would disapprove of Congress passing additional tax cuts for wealthy individuals
  • Putting vital programs on the chopping block to pay for tax cuts for wealthy individuals and
    large corporations is UNacceptable to large majorities of voters.
  • Voters express the greatest resistance to making large cuts to Social Security (85% unacceptable), Medicare (85%), and Medicaid (82%), while more than seven in ten voters say it is unacceptable to offset tax cuts for the wealthy by cutting K-12 education (77%), food and nutrition programs (76%), transportation and infrastructure (75%), Head Start and childcare programs (75%), and affordable housing programs (73%).
  • Notably, when it comes to cuts to programs proposed in the House budget bill, large majorities of Trump voters say cutting Medicaid (71%) and food and nutrition programs (60%) would be unacceptable.
  • A significant 70% majority of voters oppose the proposed elements of the House Republican budget bill that would: extend all tax cuts in the Trump tax law, including for the wealthy; add new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy; add new tax cuts for tipped workers; and cut Medicaid, food stamps, and aid to the poor. Only 30% of voters favor it. Nearly half of Trump
    voters (47%) oppose the House Republican budget bill.
  • In an open-ended follow-up question, voters who oppose the bill most frequently say they oppose the bill because they do not think the wealthy should get tax cuts.
  • Voters do not believe Republicans’ claim that new tax cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations will “pay for themselves” by stimulating stronger economic growth that leads to higher tax revenues: only 39% of voters think it is likely that these tax cuts will pay for themselves, while 61% think it is unlikely that they will do so.
  • In fact, 81% of voters think it is believable that, “tax cuts for the rich aren’t free, and everyone
    else will end up paying the bill.”
  • When it comes to individual tax cuts, voters are clear in their preference that Congress extend expiring tax cuts ONLY for people with incomes under $400,000. Just 25% of voters think Congress should extend tax cuts for everyone, including wealthy people with incomes over $400,000, while 75% of voters would prefer that Congress extend tax cuts ONLY for people with incomes under $400,000.
  • Fully 78% of working-class voters would prefer that Congress only extend individual tax cuts to those making less than $400,000. Even a majority of Trump voters (58%) think Congress should extend tax cuts only for people who are not wealthy.
  • After reading arguments regarding potential tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, 60% of voters say that they would be less likely to vote for their member of Congress if they voted for tax cuts for the wealthy, while only 18% would be more likely to vote for them (23% say it would not make a difference).
  • Voters expect that billionaires like Elon Musk (84% a lot or a fair amount of influence) and corporate CEOs and their lobbyists (72%) will have significant influence on the tax policies of Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress. Comparatively few believe the average American (38%) will have the same level of influence. ..."
 
nycfan said:
This is the kind of advocacy poll where you need to see the questions to understand the outcomes, but interesting even assuming the intent was to solicit (encourage?) some of the negative opinions about tax cuts and benefit cuts.


  • "... More than two thirds of voters think that wealthy individuals (67%) and large corporations(70%) pay too little in federal taxes. Nearly half of Trump voters (49%) think wealthy individuals pay too little and 56% think large corporations pay too little. Fully seven in ten voters who identify as “working class” think that the wealthy pay too little in federal taxes.
  • Substantial majorities of voters would like Congress to increase taxes on wealthy individuals (57%) and large corporations (64%). Among working-class voters, large majorities would like Congress to raise taxes on large corporations (67%) and wealthy individuals (62%).
  • Only 27% of voters want Congress to cut taxes for wealthy individuals, and even fewer want Congress to cut taxes for large corporations (15%). Among Trump voters, just 38% would like Congress to cut taxes for the wealthy, and only 25% want to see tax cuts for large corporations.
  • More than three in four voters (76%) would DISapprove of Congress passing additional tax cuts for wealthy individuals, including 49% who would strongly disapprove. Just 24% would approve, including only 11% who would strongly approve.
  • Fully 84% of voters who identify as “working class” and more than two in three Trump voters (67%) would disapprove of Congress passing additional tax cuts for wealthy individuals
  • Putting vital programs on the chopping block to pay for tax cuts for wealthy individuals and
    large corporations is UNacceptable to large majorities of voters.
  • Voters express the greatest resistance to making large cuts to Social Security (85% unacceptable), Medicare (85%), and Medicaid (82%), while more than seven in ten voters say it is unacceptable to offset tax cuts for the wealthy by cutting K-12 education (77%), food and nutrition programs (76%), transportation and infrastructure (75%), Head Start and childcare programs (75%), and affordable housing programs (73%).
  • Notably, when it comes to cuts to programs proposed in the House budget bill, large majorities of Trump voters say cutting Medicaid (71%) and food and nutrition programs (60%) would be unacceptable.
  • A significant 70% majority of voters oppose the proposed elements of the House Republican budget bill that would: extend all tax cuts in the Trump tax law, including for the wealthy; add new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy; add new tax cuts for tipped workers; and cut Medicaid, food stamps, and aid to the poor. Only 30% of voters favor it. Nearly half of Trump
    voters (47%) oppose the House Republican budget bill.
  • In an open-ended follow-up question, voters who oppose the bill most frequently say they oppose the bill because they do not think the wealthy should get tax cuts.
  • Voters do not believe Republicans’ claim that new tax cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations will “pay for themselves” by stimulating stronger economic growth that leads to higher tax revenues: only 39% of voters think it is likely that these tax cuts will pay for themselves, while 61% think it is unlikely that they will do so.
  • In fact, 81% of voters think it is believable that, “tax cuts for the rich aren’t free, and everyone
    else will end up paying the bill.”
  • When it comes to individual tax cuts, voters are clear in their preference that Congress extend expiring tax cuts ONLY for people with incomes under $400,000. Just 25% of voters think Congress should extend tax cuts for everyone, including wealthy people with incomes over $400,000, while 75% of voters would prefer that Congress extend tax cuts ONLY for people with incomes under $400,000.
  • Fully 78% of working-class voters would prefer that Congress only extend individual tax cuts to those making less than $400,000. Even a majority of Trump voters (58%) think Congress should extend tax cuts only for people who are not wealthy.
  • After reading arguments regarding potential tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, 60% of voters say that they would be less likely to vote for their member of Congress if they voted for tax cuts for the wealthy, while only 18% would be more likely to vote for them (23% say it would not make a difference).
  • Voters expect that billionaires like Elon Musk (84% a lot or a fair amount of influence) and corporate CEOs and their lobbyists (72%) will have significant influence on the tax policies of Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress. Comparatively few believe the average American (38%) will have the same level of influence. ..."
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ChileG said:
To Frank Luntz, I would say I don’t care about Elon’s style. I care that he is not doing what they claim is the purpose of DOGE. And what he is doing is causing harm and I believe it will cause a lot more harm in the future. And I don’t see an outcome from this that is going to be good for me and my family, and most Americans.
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Exactly. It begs the question of if what Musk is doing *actually* reduces waste and improves efficiency.

I imagine that the response would be pretty different if the question were "Do you support billionaires gutting federal agencies that either provide oversight for their business interests or provide services which complete with their business interests?"
 
Bigs23 said:
Luntz is a duntz. What an idiotic assumption.
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Indeed he is, but it is worth noting that Luntz has been a Republican pollster and innovator of the so-called "focus groups" approach to shaping the GOP message for decades. Although he now loves to appear as less partisan or less of a corporate shill, the fact is he is still very much a right-winger and very much aware of where his bread is buttered.
 
WaynetheDrain said:
news.gallup.com

Trump's Job Approval Rating at 45%; Congress' Jumps to 29%

Trump's approval rating is at 45%, with broad support from Republicans. Republicans are also behind an improved job rating for Congress.
news.gallup.com news.gallup.com

Gallup poll has Trump at 45%, which makes him the least popular president at this point in his term in 70 years.
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Or as RWM reports it - "never-before-seen record approval ratings after an unheard-of landslide election victory with an unprecedented mandate from the American people!"
 
Silence Dogood said:
I wouldn't look too much into that gallup poll. Of course certain democrats polled gave him low numbers, they hate Trump just to hate.
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Trump averaged a 41% approval rating during his first term and left office with a 34% approval rating. It will be interesting to see what his approval rating will be a year from now. I'm putting the over/under at 38%
 
Silence Dogood said:
they hate Trump just to hate.
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Bullshit.

We hate him because he's a no good fucking asshole. He is a terrible human being, and an even worse President. He is a New York City chiseler, and you and folks like you got caught up in the grift like willing marks. You're in a cult. I should feel sorry for you and people like you, but I don't.

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heelinhell said:
Trump averaged a 41% approval rating during his first term and left office with a 34% approval rating. It will be interesting to see what his approval rating will be a year from now. I'm putting the over/under at 38%
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Somehow the least popular president, but received the most votes for an incumbent and just swept the swing states, ill use common sense on this one.
 
lawtig02 said:

At the one-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, his approval rating in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS tilts negative but still lands above the level he reached at any point in his first four years in office.

There are signs in the poll, though, that the warmer welcome Trump has received this time around could be fleeting, as optimism about his return to office has slipped since December. A broad majority feel the president isn’t doing enough to address the high prices of everyday goods. And 52% say he’s gone too far in using his presidential power, with similar majorities wary of his push to shutter federal agencies and elevate Elon Musk to a prominent role in his efforts to reshape the government.

Americans divide on Trump’s performance in office thus far, with 47% approving and 52% disapproving, below the start-of-term ratings for any recent presidency other than his own.

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I predict Trump will be around 40% by May. That may be his floor, as 35-40% of Americans would approve of him if he was murdering their children, but he’s already squandered any notion of a mandate.
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That 40% may not approve so much when the price of eggs is even higher, everything on amazon went up 10%, their neighbor loses his farm, their parents die of the flu, their kids lose their free lunch at school, and they lose their Medicaid, while the deficit increases and the rich get tax cuts.
 
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