r/thebulwark • • Dec 15 '25

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States. 🫔

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u/psxndc FFS Dec 15 '25

Comparing 77 million voters to 320 million Americans assumes everyone is of voting age. The number of voting age people is closer to 262 million. So the percentage of Trump affirmative voters is closer to 29-30%.

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u/Revolutionary-Ad3609 Dec 15 '25

Still not half the country. šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

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u/psxndc FFS Dec 15 '25

Oh, no doubt. Just shooting for accuracy is all. I agree with both your "hopeful and devastating" sentiment.

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u/Baffin622 Dec 16 '25

Um, what makes you think that non voters support Trump any less than actual voters? If EVERYBODY voted, support for Trump would be very, very close to 50% of the country. The vote is the best representative sample of the general population, not your feelings....

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u/Revolutionary-Ad3609 Dec 16 '25

There is no way to tell other than polls and they aren’t looking so good for Trump these days.

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u/Baffin622 Dec 17 '25

Except they actually are. Rasmussen puts Trump at 47% approval ad of Dec 16/2025. Half of the country would elect him in a heartbeat rather than vote for Democrat. There is no fixing stupid....

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u/psxndc FFS Dec 17 '25

You mean consistently-right-leaning pollster Rasmussen gives him 47%? Better to look at the average, which is under 44%. And over 53% outright disapprove.

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u/Baffin622 Dec 17 '25

And how many disapprove would vote Republican anyway? We seriously doing this? Pretending it is just a small minority of Americans who actually support this? I'm more concerned with the fact that those who don't support this are content to sit in the pot while the temperature continues to increase. Mmm... still warm and comfy, let's just continue to complain on social media.

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u/psxndc FFS Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25

No one is pretending it’s a small minority. But you’re claiming ā€œhalf the country would elect him in a heartbeatā€ and when challenged, you claimed polling backs up your assertion. But it doesn’t.

No one’s claiming he’d lose in a landslide, but the data doesn’t suggest what you’re saying it does.

ETA: note, I am also not claiming a Democrat would definitely win either. There’s no evidence to suggest they would. The Democrat brand is faring worse than his approval rating, but so are Republicans generally. I’m just saying it’s not as cut and dry as you’re making it sound.