We should not take too much solace from polling even if Trump‘s approval rating continues to decline. In 1983, Reagan had a 32% approval rating in the polls, and only a year later, in the 1984 presidential election, he won every state except one in the electoral college. The big question on my mind is whether the almost 50-50 standoff be…
We should not take too much solace from polling even if Trump‘s approval rating continues to decline. In 1983, Reagan had a 32% approval rating in the polls, and only a year later, in the 1984 presidential election, he won every state except one in the electoral college. The big question on my mind is whether the almost 50-50 standoff between the Republican and Democratic parties can shift significantly or whether we need a new party to change the equation much like we did prior to the Civil War when the Whig party collapsed over slavery. That gave rise to the Republican Party, which was basically a one – issue, anti-slavery party. Perhaps we need an anti-authoritarian party to emerge.
We should not take too much solace from polling even if Trump‘s approval rating continues to decline. In 1983, Reagan had a 32% approval rating in the polls, and only a year later, in the 1984 presidential election, he won every state except one in the electoral college. The big question on my mind is whether the almost 50-50 standoff between the Republican and Democratic parties can shift significantly or whether we need a new party to change the equation much like we did prior to the Civil War when the Whig party collapsed over slavery. That gave rise to the Republican Party, which was basically a one – issue, anti-slavery party. Perhaps we need an anti-authoritarian party to emerge.