Approval/Disapproval Polls

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Icky Mettle said:
Who knew that implementing militaristic police states would be a winning strategy?
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As long as the military remains in the background / as a support role, this is a winner for Trump and he knows it. People already tolerate (and many support) the sort of strong-arm police tactics we we from ICE, but I do think if there is any kind of violent use of force by military, things could turn quickly (depending on the circumstances).
 
nycfan said:
As long as the military remains in the background / as a support role, this is a winner for Trump and he knows it. People already tolerate (and many support) the sort of strong-arm police tactics we we from ICE, but I do think if there is any kind of violent use of force by military, things could turn quickly (depending on the circumstances).
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I suspect almost all of those who approve are those not going out and about and seeing a militaristic police state in their communities and further assume that it will not happen in their communities.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I suspect almost all of those who approve are those not going out and about and seeing a militaristic police state in their communities and further assume that it will not happen in their communities.
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Lol. Exactly. The people who approve of US military personnel patrolling the streets of American cities are folks in Bumfuck, Alabama and Sisterfuck, Mississippi where there is exactly 0 chance of US military personnel ever patrolling the streets.
 
What’s a “large city” to most Americans?

Oklahoma City is the 20th largest city in the US at 712,919. Raleigh is 39th at 499,825. Washington, DC is 702,250. Atlanta is 36th at 520,070 (so, the measure of a city’s population is within its city’s borders, not its suburban sprawl).

Less than 50 million Americans live in cities the size of Raleigh or larger. Less than 27 million Americans live in a city of 1 million or larger (15 million of those live in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago).

I’d guess less than 50% of Americans step into a truly large city each year.

Most Americans have no clue what an urban city is.
 
Zoo_View said:
What’s a “large city” to most Americans?

Oklahoma City is the 20th largest city in the US at 712,919. Raleigh is 39th at 499,825. Washington, DC is 702,250. Atlanta is 36th at 520,070 (so, the measure of a city’s population is within its city’s borders, not its suburban sprawl).

Less than 50 million Americans live in cities the size of Raleigh or larger. Less than 27 million Americans live in a city of 1 million or larger (15 million of those live in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago).

I’d guess less than 50% of Americans step into a truly large city each year.

Most Americans have no clue what an urban city is.
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And I'd wager that the vast majority of folks who don't live in, but did visit, a truly large city last year only visited touristy/gentrified areas.
 
The last five years during which I have lived in NYC (#WestHarlem just off 125th Street) has been pretty enlightening for me. Until this week my daughter has lived in Washington Heights (even more eye-opening). Like a lot of people I had never really lived in a city (save a couple of months at a time in Guatemala City over the years). Prior to that the suburbs of Greensboro and Asheville had been my closest thing to an urban experience, i.e., not at all.

I marvel at the diversity, difference, and overall multiple ways of living and doing that I had never even imagined.
 
nycfan said:
Morning Consult is a GQP poll? They are generally considered neutral to lean moderate left last I checked.
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Not sure about Morning Consult being GQP, but nothing is more neutral (or accurate) as Reuters. It’s the Gold Standard. So I’ll take it’s reporting and polling over Morning Consult any day and twice on Sunday.
 
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lawtig02 said:
To be fair, the UK got absolutely fucked by Brexit. Labour could be doing better, but the love child of Churchill and Thatcher couldn’t fix what’s wrong there right now. Which is why it’s so spectacularly stupid that American conservatives are cheering on our own form of Brexit.
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This^
Any “approval” of trump admin is literally cheering on our own Brexit, which of course was indeed a disaster for the U.K. as noted.
Eventually there will be a “let them eat cake” moment, though it may still be a long time in coming. But it will come… eventually.
 
Zoo_View said:
What’s a “large city” to most Americans?

Oklahoma City is the 20th largest city in the US at 712,919. Raleigh is 39th at 499,825. Washington, DC is 702,250. Atlanta is 36th at 520,070 (so, the measure of a city’s population is within its city’s borders, not its suburban sprawl).

Less than 50 million Americans live in cities the size of Raleigh or larger. Less than 27 million Americans live in a city of 1 million or larger (15 million of those live in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago).

I’d guess less than 50% of Americans step into a truly large city each year.

Most Americans have no clue what an urban city is.
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definition
urban city : a place where tens of thousands of scary black and brown people roam the streets looting, burning down buildings, and murdering nice well meaning white people
 
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