[Vision2020] Fwd: 39% think Trump is an Idiot

[Ron Force]

Not percentages:

9. What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald
Trump? (Numbers are not percentages. Figures show the number of times each
response was given. This table reports only words that were mentioned at
least five times.)

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Sam Scripter <moscowsam at charter.net>
wrote:

> What's the story on those percentages? They sum to around 300%, not 100%.
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> Am I missing something in my reading?
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> May 16, 2017 9:41:45 AM PDT, Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Over the last week (May 8-12, 2017), Quinnipiac University asked Americans
> <https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2456> for the
> first word that comes to mind when they think of President Trump. The
> answer given more times than any other was “idiot,” followed by
> “incompetent” and “liar.”
> View image on Twitter
> <https://twitter.com/pbump/status/862368572013760512/photo/1>
> [image: View image on Twitter]
> <https://twitter.com/pbump/status/862368572013760512/photo/1>
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>   <https://twitter.com/pbump>Given the above sentiment, there’s little
> surprise that Trump is down to a 36 percent approval rating in the
> university’s latest national poll. The mark sits just one percentage point
> above the 35 percent approval rating he got on April 4, his lowest since
> taking office.
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> It’s not just the approval rating. Every number in this poll is bad. The
> majority of Americans say Trump is “not honest,” lacks leadership skills,
> doesn’t care about average Americans, is not “level-headed,” and does not
> share their values. On the economy, immigration, foreign policy, and
> terrorism, more Americans disapprove than approve of the job he’s doing.
> Perhaps the most revelatory number in this poll, which shows that Trump is
> floundering even in the eyes of his fans, is his support among white men.
> Approval amongthis bedrock group for Trump dropped below 50 percent in the
> past week, with only 48 percent of white men saying the president is doing
> a good job. Forty-six percent disagreed.
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> And that’s not even the poll result that would most enrage Trump. This is:
> When it comes to who Americans trust to tell them the truth, 57 percent say
> the media wins out over Trump.
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> A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
> shall never sit in.
>
> -Greek proverb
>
> “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
> Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
> from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
> lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
> guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
> understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.
>
> --Immanuel Kant
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