I was saying to my wife at dinner that this Covid scare for Trump could actually lead to greater interest in and sympathy for him. Then I saw this at FR:
Shooting Gives Reagan Boost In Popularity
The Washington Post ^ | April 2, 1981 | Barry Sussman
The burst of gunfire that injured President Reagan Monday sparked an instantaneous and sharp rise in his popular standing with the American people, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The president was already comparatively high in popularity, but his approval rating showed a climb of 11 percentage points from Sunday, the Tuesday, when the news Post-ABC poll was conducted.
While it is common for a president's popularity rating to increase at a time of national crisis, the rise for Reagan appears as sharp as any yet recorded. Reagan's new surge came at a time when the president seemed to be on something of a downward swing in popularity as measured by previous polls.
The new Post-ABC poll was conducted Tuesday night, with 505 people interviewed by telephone nationwide. In the survey, 73 percent of those interviewed said they approve of Reagan's performance as president, 16 percent said they disapprove, and 11 percent expressed no opinion. Because a relatively small number of people were interviewed, the poll has a theoretical margin of error of about 5 percent in either direction.
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Now we have another ex-FBI nutter posturing for the media (anyone you know, Mark?)… Frank Fugliuzzi, who was appointed to his assistant directorship in February 2011 and was gone by July 2012. A known Trump-hater:
ReplyDeleteA former top FBI official on Thursday proposed that a “bipartisan commission” be created to vet presidential candidates so people like President Trump can never be elected again.
“We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again,” said Frank Figliuzzi, who was briefly the assistant director of the FBI under President Obama.
During a discussion on MSNBC about Trump’s taxes Thursday morning, Figliuzzi opined that the president’s supposedly dire financial situation made him “vulnerable” to certain entities like {{{Russia}}}.
https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/01/former-fbi-official-proposes-bipartisan-commission-to-vet-presidential-candidates-like-trump/
Just a nutter who's willing to say anything for a buck.
Delete"MSM is worried Trump might get a sympathy vote. So they have to make the story all about WH 'lying,' conflicting stories, etc."
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1312859680809652224
In fact Zogby's latest polling offers some support for the idea that this will benefit Trump. Also, Roger Simon (PJMedia? Epoch Times?) argues that this will be a real plus for Trump. Humanizes him for people who may not have viewed him as likeable, exposes Dem hatefulness.
DeleteClearly it's also further aggravating their already acute TDS:
Deletehttps://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1312533994555076608
(Check out some of the unhinged responses. I'm not sure what's more frightening: that "SES" Schmidt thinks Gabriel Sherman is a highly reliable source, or knowing that the wackos commenting actually exist)