deactherunner
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A friend of a friend can confirm that he was an excellent surgeon. The problems come when he discusses literally anything else.
Like most doctors I know
There was a good deal of talk over the past month (and bragging by right-wing media outlets) about Trump's "surge" in the polls recently. The latest NBC News poll put him at 46% approval, Fox News had him at 46%, and his RCP polling average rose above 45% for the first time in well over a year. It appears that his rise was short-lived. The latest RCP average has him dropping back to below 43% approval again (with 53.5% disapproval, for a nearly 11-point disadvantage). A spate of polls released this week shows his approval rating underwater by double-digits: CBS News, Reuters, Monmouth, Economist, and Politico all have him underwater by anywhere from 10 to 14 points, and Quinnipiac has him down by 19 points. Even Rasmussen has him down by seven points, a large margin for him in that poll.
Have their been any dips or rises beyond the margin of error? He has a consistent base that isn't changing.
The rolling average on 538 doesn't really move more than 1% and hasn't dipped or risen significantly in months.
Well, it looks as if the GOP's stacking of the SC with right-wing justices is about to pay off on the issues that really matter to them. Today the Supremes halted lower-court rulings that required the states of Michigan and Ohio to redraw their legislative and congressional districts, as the federal judges in those courts had ruled that the districts as drawn were unconstitutional due to such extreme gerrymandering that it virtually guaranteed GOP control for the entire decade following the 2010 Census. Anyone want to bet on what the 5-4 decision in late June will likely be? If they overturn the lower court's rulings in Michigan and Ohio, it will also overturn the similar lower-court rulings in NC as well. If that happens, the GOP may well have a virtual permanent majority in the NC state legislature, and the Democrats would have no chance of ever winning back a majority, at least for decades.
Link: https://news.yahoo.com/high-court-halts-electoral-map-redrawing-michigan-ohio-190628305--politics.html;_ylt=AwrC0wzkcehcdxwA_wDQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByOHZyb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--