{"id":18470,"date":"2018-11-27T19:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18470"},"modified":"2018-11-27T19:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:05:40","slug":"is-it-backlash-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/27\/is-it-backlash-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Backlash?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weekly Gallup<\/strong><\/em> Presidential Approval \/ Disapproval poll<\/em><\/a> has the pundits stirred up this week because of the change from last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s a bit like a roller-coaster, isn’t it? I had not expected the drop in approval to 38%, although the jump to 60% disapproval is more striking. I still find it a little difficult to find any serious conclusions to draw, especially short-term, but Jennifer Rubin thinks<\/a> there’s more bubbling under the surface than I do, based on a poll taken concerning Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation:<\/p>\n

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The poll<\/a>, conducted after the midterm election, found that 76 percent of voters say Mueller should be allowed to finish his work. While there are differences by party, Trump should be alarmed to find large bipartisan majorities standing up for Mueller:<\/p>\n

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Majorities of Democrats (94%), independents (78%), and Republicans\u00a0(55%) say that Mueller should be allowed to complete his\u00a0investigation. In this regard:<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a083% of voters, including 68% of Republicans, agree that \u201cit\u00a0would be an abuse of power for Donald Trump to try to stop an\u00a0ongoing investigation of him and his campaign because no one\u00a0is above the law, not even the president.\u201d Fifty-nine percent\u00a0strongly agree.<\/p>\n

\u2014 82% of voters, including 66% of Republicans, agree that\u00a0\u201cRobert Mueller should be allowed to finish his investigation and\u00a0follow the facts wherever they lead, because everyone must\u00a0abide by the rule of law, even the president.\u201d Fifty-eight\u00a0percent strongly agree.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even though they think the investigation is biased (as a vast majority of Republicans do), large majorities of Republicans want the investigation completed. …<\/p>\n

Amplifying the support in the Senate and among ordinary Republicans to keep Mueller at work, GOP ads run by\u00a0Republicans for the Rule of Law<\/a>\u00a0have been pushing Republicans to defend Mueller. The cumulative effect of these developments finally may have registered. \u201cWhile Republicans have at times over the last two years been swayed by the demagoguery of Trump and [Rep. Devin] Nunes and Fox, they\u2019ve come back around to the core American belief in the rule of law,\u201d says Bill Kristol, the group\u2019s co-founder. \u201cThe GOP is less solidly Trump\u2019s party than people think.\u201d\u00a0Even if they still support Trump, Republicans may have figured out that firing or interfering with the special counsel would be politically disastrous for the president and the party.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Does this all have an endpoint advantageous to the nation? Hard to say. The cult of the leader that has paralyzed the GOP over the last two years may be running into the rock of reality, and the latter is more of a mountain the Trump.<\/p>\n

But I’ll keep my optimism on the back burner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weekly Gallup Presidential Approval \/ Disapproval poll has the pundits stirred up this week because of the change from last week: It’s a bit like a roller-coaster, isn’t it? I had not expected the drop in approval to 38%, although the jump to 60% disapproval is more striking. I \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18473,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions\/18473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}