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发帖数: 29846 | 1 No Impact: Trump Jr. Nonsense “Scandal” Has No Impact On Polls
By Dick Morris on July 12, 2017
The latest no substance scandal to preoccupy Washington — the emails of
Donald Trump Jr. — is having no impact on his father’s job approval in any
of the recent polls.
Rasmussen Reports, the only poll to survey likely voters, has Trump’s job
approval at 45% (July 9-11), exactly the same as it has been for the past
two months. In fact, Rasmussen’s average rating for Trump job approval has
been averaging 45% ever since May.
Nor do any of the other polls — that sample “adults” or “registered
voters — show any movement. Trump’s RealClearPolitics.com average job
approval has been about the same (low forties) for the past few months.
Americans don’t care. Trump’s base of voters is solid and about what it
has been since before the election. All the noise and furor and even hot-
headed accusations of treason are making no difference in the polls.
This lack of response raises a key question: Will voters come to feel that
all the Democrats can talk about is the Russia scandal? Will the impact on
the Democrats be akin to the way the Republicans destroyed their own
reputations by focusing on Clinton’s relationship with Lewinsky?
In that case, despite years of pounding, Republicans failed to lower the
president’s job approval and only erased their own credibility. Things got
so bad that with a Democratic president immersed in scandal and about to be
impeached, the Republicans lost four seats in the House and made no gains in
the Senate in the elections of 1998.
By devoting all their time to going after Clinton’s personal life and doing
nothing to project their agenda or pass legislation, the Republican
majority in Congress exhausted the public’s patience and broke their own
momentum.
Now, with the Russia “scandal” entering its second year with no evidence
of collusion, the lack of polling gains for the Democrats suggests that they
are falling into the same trap? Is it becoming evident to Americans that
the Democrats have no agenda beyond “resistance” to Trump? Is the lack of
agenda that so crippled Hillary in her campaign carrying over into 2017?
Donald Trump is such an attractive punching bag that he can play rope-a-dope
as Mohammed Ali did to George Foreman. Its easy to be lured into abandoning
a positive issue agenda and focusing only on his “scandals.” But, by
zeroing in on this particular scandal — with no evidence of collusion
between Putin and Trump — the Democrats risk boring the country to death.
And, if Trump can continue to produce impressive results — 220K jobs
created, 50% cut in illegal border crossings, Gorsuch on the Court, victory
over ISIS in Iraq — and, possibly Obamacare repeal and replacement, he may
just leave the Democrats behind stewing in their own juices. | j*********r
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