Policy Polling: Trump Voters and Poll Findings

policy polling: Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 12/8/16, 9 00 PM ET Poll shows Trump voter gap with facts, rest of Americans views Rachel Maddow shares an exclusive first look at new poll findings from Public Policy Polling that show a contrast between Trump voters and the rest of Americans. share tweet email save Embed But that doesn t mean survey results are suddenly unimportant, according to MSNBC. It matters, for example, that Donald Trump presidential honeymoon is over before it starts, with a new report from the Pew Research Center showing the Republican headed into Inauguration Day with strikingly weak public support. Photo by Mark Peterson/Redux for MSNBC Trump, his supporters, and the persistence of the reality gap 12/09/16 08 00 AM By Steve Benen With Election Day having come and gone, the political world obsessive interest in polling has largely dissipated, and for good reason we no longer need to comb through data in the hopes of figuring out who going to win. Similarly, new results from Public Policy Polling, which Rachel noted on the show last night in an exclusive sneak-peak, found a majority of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the president-elect. The Pew data found most of the country still considers him ill-qualified, reckless, hard to like, and lacking in sound judgment. For all the Republican talk about Trump having a mandate as a result of his landslide victory, the fact remains that Trump, who lost the national popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, is not held in high regard. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.