The weekly YouGov poll came out late this week because they waited to do the fieldwork until after the election. For some reason, I found the shifts from before to after the election amusing:
Last week, Kamala Harris had a higher favorability than Donald Trump by four points. This week it's suddenly switched. Trump is viewed more favorably by two points.
The same thing happened to the parties. Last week Democrats had a higher favorability by five points. This week it's Republicans by two points.
And the best for last. A week ago only 23% of Republicans thought the election would be fair. This week it's suddenly 77% while Democrats didn't change much at all. Only 1% of Republicans think the election was rigged. 97% think Trump won fair and square. Apparently the lying, cheating Democrats inexplicably took this election off from their usual vote rigging and illegal immigrant stuffing.
POSTSCRIPT: Why the change in favorability? Is it real? Or do parties and candidates just benefit from a winning aura?
Because Republicans are fickle and someone somewhere won't like a loser.
Exactly, even people who wanted Kamala to win are more likely now to view her unfavorably for having lost to the orange faced man.
I love it when you post stuff like this and then pretend you don't understand exactly what's happening.
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expect a similar change in perception of the economy in the coming weeks
Pretty much.
And Trump's inflation won't be as bad because his profit-taking buddies won't have. Democrat to blame.
It'll be bad, tho.
"Apparently the lying, cheating Democrats inexplicably took this election off from their usual vote rigging and illegal immigrant stuffing."
On right-wing websites, they are saying the election ended up fair because of all the steps Republicans/MAGA took to assure there was no cheating. One person claimed the Republicans had 200,000 monitors watching out for fraud (as if they could actually spot organized fraud in action). So the super-heroes in the MAGA movement saved the election!
The lies must be maintained.
imho the irreparable damage this sweep caused, was not the probable deportations, environmental damage, abortions, etc, etc.
Yes for them it was clean and fair but I fear it was their vindication of Election Denial.
So Americans, enjoy peaceful transfers of power . . . until the GOP loses by a margin less than a landslide. If that occurs, VPs refusing to certify electoral counts, or "patriots" storming the capitol, will be deemed completely okay.
Thank you Donald, Rupert and all the voters who refused to look behind the curtain
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there is NO federal budget, just continuing resolutions. Trump will propose increased spending and tax cuts.
there will be NO BLAMING DEMOCRATS when the sh_t hits the fan. The trifecta of house, senate and white house will be solely responsible for any and all malfunctions to the economy.
They'll still blame the Democrats. And the immigrants. And the legions of trans people. And the woke universities. And roughly half the country will believe them.
Just curious, and it won't ever happen, but as a thought exercise what would happen if the Democrats either renamed themselves the Republican Party or suggesting all registered Democrats re-register as Republicans? I'm asking only in light of the Democrats always being blamed regardless.
Good thinking. Uniparty governance works for China--why not here?
It's also remarkable that Trump is no longer decrepit, gurgling and bound for the funeral home or 24-hour caregiving. No one has mentioned his obvious poor capacity since election night.
Of course, he remains in bad physical and mental condition, and will continue to deteriorate. People who think Vance and the cabinet will turf him out should recall that even the less craven lickspittles of his first administration lacked the nerve to do so on January 6th, and the second batch of groveling toadies and lickspittles is currently being vetted for quivering, obsequious subservience.
Anyone who moves to remove him will face the wrath of MAGA, as long as he can blink once or twice or ring a bell with his index finger. This could be an interesting few years.
You do bring up point that should be made. Presuming Trump doesn't try one to finagle staying in office in 2029, he's already a lame duck and dare I say irrelevant. And since Trump doesn't care about policy, what we will witness is an attempt by by Vance and his minions and those around Kennedy, Gabbard, Musk and Miller trying to run the government.
Yeah, I'm scared too.
It's like before he won the first election the unemployment numbers were totally unrealistic and the real number was 20 or 30 percent. Then the numbers became correct and were fine. Maybe totally wrong again after COVID hit.
When Republicans win its fair, when they lose its rigged and the other side cheated. This is their reality now. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have more integrity in their fingernails than Trump and Vance have in their entire bodies. Trump never conceded the 2020 election, never called to congratulate Biden and Harris and didn't participate in the peaceful transfer of power. He actively tried to stop it. And what did our fellow Americans do? They rewarded the bloated orange clown with another term.
And suddenly the economy is great and now the country is on the right track!
For the same reason as people misremember their prior vote: they want to remember that they backed a winner.
I see a lot of denialism or excuse making in the future.
But doesn't "free and fair" take away from Trump's self image as a mighty colossus striding the Earth to smite the election interferers?
Trump will never stop lying and claiming that Democrats cheat in elections. He'll just shift to ever more insane statements about how he would have won X more states if it weren't for fraud etc.
Hell, he already claims that he would have won/did win California in 2020 (and 2016?) on that very theory.
I know Harris and the Dems won't do this but what's to stop them from not certifying the election results in January, forcing the issue to the SC, which I believe would rule against her?
It would force them to a set a precedent they probably do not want to make. But the Democrats aren't like the Republicans.
Exactly. We aren't willing to torch democracy on behalf of Harris, because, y'know, we believe in the rule of law. MAGA weirdos not so much--they'd rather have Trump of all people than the Constitution.
If the Dems take the House:
recordscratch.wav
I'm not as confident as the Democrats are. Part of me wants to see a GOP controlled government. If this election proved anything it's that a majority of us deserve a big dose of karma.
We saw this in 2000, with millions of Republicans insisting that the Dems had rigged and stolen the election - except when Republicans won. Somehow the Dems put Biden in office but forgot everything else.
It was a lie, pure and simple.