POLL: Demoralization Among Dem Voters Reaches Record High

Less than one percent of Democrats say they are satisfied with the current state and direction of the United States, a record low, according to a shocking new survey conducted by Gallup.

The latest poll shows that satisfaction among Democrat voters dropped off a cliff after President Donald Trump won re-election this past November, plunging from just below 50 percent indicating a positive view of the country’s current state to below 10 percent just after the election. The opposite was true for Republican respondents, as their satisfaction surged north of 70 percent after hovering near zero towards the end of former President Joe Biden’s term in the White House.

According to the most recent Gallup survey, 76 percent of Republican respondents indicated that they are satisfied with the current state of the country, in line with figures that have largely held constant since Election Day. The 76-point gap is the highest Gallup has ever recorded on the measure, though the partisan divide has largely persisted since the turn of the century.

Speaking to the divide, Gallup found that Republicans were as essentially as dissatisfied with the nation’s direction in July of last year as Democrats are today. However, the partisan split sat at 35 points at the time because just 36 percent of Democrat respondents expressed satisfaction with the country’s direction at the time.

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While Gallup’s measure of the nation’s partisan decline has generated headlines, the survey’s measure of President Donald Trump’s overall job approval came in well below the RealClearPolitics polling average. The Gallup poll measured Trump’s approval rating at just 40 percent, falling below the RCP average, which rests at 45.8 percent as of this report.

Nearly all major pollsters have Trump underwater in terms of overall job performance, though only slightly. All in all, the president’s approval rating at this point in his presidency remains higher than former Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and his own first term, when compared with this date at similar points in their respective presidencies.

According to the most recent survey from Quantus Insights, President Trump’s job approval rests at 48 percent. “The verdict is plain: half the country still stands with Trump, half does not; with just enough on the negative side to keep him under water,” Quantus Insights founder Jason Corley wrote in the poll’s analysis.

The Quantus survey continued with what has been a documented trend both among the particular poll and the industry as a whole in finding a measurable gender divide on the president. Male voters approve of the president’s job performance by a margin of 53 to 46 percent, while women disapprove by a 55 to 43 percent margin.