In your opinion, is this an interesting poll and why or why not?

2016-12-28T06:27:00-05:00

Response by TSgt Joe C. made Dec 28 at 2016 6:30 AM

2016-12-28T06:30:50-05:00

Polls are usually rigged to favor someone......favors the haters of DT in this one.

Response by Maj Marty Hogan made Dec 28 at 2016 7:02 AM

2016-12-28T07:02:16-05:00

My opinion no. Why- because it isn't interesting and sample is not across an array of areas.

Response by SSG Steven Mangus made Dec 28 at 2016 7:07 AM

2016-12-28T07:07:39-05:00

Instead of the vocal individuals bitching and complaining, give the guy a chance..could it be worse than BHO or Hildabeast; I don't think so. The poll, as said in previous posts, is a load of shit..

Response by SSgt Christopher Brose made Dec 28 at 2016 7:09 AM

2016-12-28T07:09:21-05:00

For a poll to be valid, it has to specify who was being polled. Those numbers by themselves are meaningless.

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 28 at 2016 7:09 AM

2016-12-28T07:09:25-05:00

When polling 65% registered democrats. We all know about polls and the american electorate now.

Response by SGM Erik Marquez made Dec 28 at 2016 7:15 AM

2016-12-28T07:15:41-05:00

So they called a list of top democratic voters and surveyed them in a poll... Then were "astonished " at the harsh results obtained.

LOL
Per Research could create and get results with 83.76% of the respondents saying the moon was made of cheese and we never really landed men on the moon...its all in the questions, how and when asked, and who asked.

Pollsters decide on the answer they want, then create the poll, and keep doing independent surveys until they get the results they were contracted for.

Response by TSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 28 at 2016 7:17 AM

2016-12-28T07:17:44-05:00

I am not surprised by these 'results', but the information shown does have me questioning them. What's the margin of error that Pew Research Center determined? What was their sample size? Questions of this nature are somewhat important.

That said, anyone dismissing it out of hand because it doesn't line up with some preconcieved worldview is... Best case ill-informed. The Pew Research Center has a nigh-untouched reputation for impartiality in their research, with sensible methods to avoid bias.

Response by SGT William Howell made Dec 28 at 2016 7:24 AM

2016-12-28T07:24:53-05:00

If we have learned anything in the last 2 months it is that pollsters are either incompetent or tainted in their judgement. Like everything else news related I have to verify before I can accept. So basically I have to do their job in order to insure that I am getting factual information.

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Dec 28 at 2016 7:28 AM

2016-12-28T07:28:28-05:00

It is only interesting in that only weeks after an election where polling organizations were roundly embarrassed by the inaccuracies of their "scientific" polls, we are looking at another and ascribing any potential value to it. The polling organizations have been revealed to us as either being very unreliable and in some cases, biased.

Response by Austin Hocutt made Dec 28 at 2016 7:48 AM

2016-12-28T07:48:46-05:00

I can tell who they asked based on what they asked.

Response by Alan K. made Dec 28 at 2016 7:53 AM

2016-12-28T07:53:53-05:00

This is the same poll they do with every President isn't it?....Poll numbers to match their talking points....Again, shocked I tell you

Response by Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin made Dec 28 at 2016 7:58 AM

2016-12-28T07:58:44-05:00

The polls predicted a Clinton win this year... Nuff said.

Response by CAPT Don Bosch, EdD made Dec 28 at 2016 8:00 AM

2016-12-28T08:00:51-05:00

The poll that mattered was held on November 8. On January 20 he'll be CINC. Military personnel don't need a poll to know how to say "Yes Sir" and carry on, just as with our current and previous CINCs.

Response by SPC Makissa Lewis made Dec 28 at 2016 8:05 AM

2016-12-28T08:05:08-05:00

Regardless of what the polls state, many felt him fit to be president. And, no poll can really capture that logic.

Response by CPO Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 28 at 2016 8:25 AM

2016-12-28T08:25:13-05:00

A Poll will say what you WANT it to say. Phrase the questions and ask the right demographic and Hitler looks like an angel and the Pope is the Devil.

I worked in Mass media fresh out of College and long before I Signed on the line. After a year of watching "reporters" fabricate news and seeing how the industry works I got out. I was young but I wasn't stupid. That was back in the 90's, I look at what the talking heads say and all of these polls and then I ignore them. They are ALL lies every last one of them, their is zero integrity in the media and in these "polling" institutions.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 28 at 2016 9:07 AM

2016-12-28T09:07:12-05:00

I don't put much stock in polls. They usually only poll a few hundred to a couple thousand people. I don't believe for a second that you can accurately decide the opinions of 100s of millions of people from hundreds or thousands.

Also, I've been on this planet for 37 years and not once in my life have I or anyone I know ever been asked to participate in one of these polls.

Response by SFC Thomas Twigg made Dec 28 at 2016 9:15 AM

2016-12-28T09:15:45-05:00

Oh, is this poll like the polls the pollsters did before the election? If so it doesn't mean much.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 28 at 2016 9:19 AM

2016-12-28T09:19:59-05:00

At this point, the only poll that matters/mattered was taken on November 8, 2016. In it, Donald Trump received sufficient votes in sufficient states to rise to the office of POTUS on January 20, 2017. As to the poll referenced in this thread, I have no reason to believe it is any more accurate or any more significant than any of its predecessors this political season. Time and his own actions will write Trump's legacy ... not some dumbass Pew poll taken before he has even taken office.

Response by PO2 Marty Sharpe made Dec 28 at 2016 9:27 AM

2016-12-28T09:27:22-05:00

No. It is time to sit back and give the man a chance. Everyone just might be surprised. I gave the last one a chance and was surprised. He really disappointed me.
Hopefully the surprise on this one is he is very competent.
But again it is time to cool it. The election is over. We will do it again in four years.

Response by Sgt Wayne Wood made Dec 28 at 2016 9:44 AM

2016-12-28T09:44:45-05:00

Without demographic & methodology info it's not a poll... it's useless bullshit

Response by SGT Cort Landry made Dec 28 at 2016 9:50 AM

2016-12-28T09:50:33-05:00

Not once, have I ever been asked to take part in a poll. I always wonder where they get the people that are being polled? Off the street? Phone call? I sure get enough calls from the "IRS" though. You know the ones that say the "IRS" is suing me....

Response by MSgt James Mullis made Dec 28 at 2016 9:56 AM

2016-12-28T09:56:12-05:00

Sounds like another "Fake Poll" designed to justify another "Fake News Story".

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 28 at 2016 9:57 AM

2016-12-28T09:57:11-05:00

PEW is a respected nonpartisan research organization. I don't believe this is especially meaningful though, lets see what happens to his numbers hen he starts doing stuff. He might be able to give congress a run for their money when it comes to popularity.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html

RealClearPolitics - Election Other - Congressional Job Approval

Response by SGT Jose Perdelia-Torres made Dec 28 at 2016 9:58 AM

2016-12-28T09:58:06-05:00

It's a very leftist poll on my opinion. Though I will admit that he has excited poor judgement in his actions and behavior he is still a good role model based on the fact that he apologized for his actions and has other factors going for him. Those are the characteristics that should. E emulated. This poll is irrelevant either way as our next President will. R Donald Trump. America has spoken

Response by SGT Damaso V Santana made Dec 28 at 2016 10:33 AM

2016-12-28T10:33:04-05:00

Just another one to make the "Cupcakes" feel good. Just like obama saying he would have beaten Trump in an election, well delusional as he is, still does not realize that those who voted for Trump repudiated all eight years (99.7%) of obama's failed policies, foreign and domestic.
Get over it, the leftist progressives are trying to stage a "Social Media Coup d'etat", is not going to work, back to safe corners and play doh.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 28 at 2016 11:14 AM

2016-12-28T11:14:15-05:00

If anyone's interested, here's Pew's full results, including quite a few other questions, rather than only one chart put together by a cable station (though it does relay the data for that one question accurately). There's a lot of good data there, but also that should (at the very least) allay some of the (faux-) concerns cited below about who was surveyed.
http://www.people-press.org/2016/12/08/1-views-of-president-elect-trump-and-his-administration/
http://www.people-press.org/2016/12/08/low-approval-of-trumps-transition-but-outlook-for-his-presidency-improves/

"The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted November 30-December 5, 2016 among a national sample of 1,502 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (375 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,127 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 664 who had no landline telephone).
...
The combined landline and cell phone sample are weighted using an iterative technique that matches gender, age, education, race, Hispanic origin and nativity and region to parameters from the 2014 Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and population density to parameters from the Decennial Census. The sample also is weighted to match current patterns of telephone status (landline only, cell phone only, or both landline and cell phone), based on extrapolations from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey. The weighting procedure also accounts for the fact that respondents with both landline and cell phones have a greater probability of being included in the combined sample and adjusts for household size among respondents with a landline phone. The margins of error reported and statistical tests of significance are adjusted to account for the survey’s design effect, a measure of how much efficiency is lost from the weighting procedures."

1. Views of President-elect Trump and his administration

As Donald Trump prepares to take office as the nation’s 45th president, 55% of the public says that, so far, they disapprove of the job he has done explaining h

Response by COL Jean (John) F. B. made Dec 28 at 2016 3:32 PM

2016-12-28T15:32:48-05:00

Why keep posting garbage like this? It is obviously a BS/biased poll generated simply to slam Trump. Hillary lost; Obama will be gone; Trump won and will be President. Get over it...

Response by PO1 Philip Germain Sr made Dec 29 at 2016 12:10 PM

2016-12-29T12:10:13-05:00

Its modstly trsh depending on who is running the mpole its just like the news thay did not get it
thay trashed him and he still beet them every one need to get over it and support him