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MaddowBlog-Years later, Obama enjoys a level of public support that Trump can only dream of
The latest national poll suggests Trump’s yearslong smear campaign against Obama has failed spectacularly.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-obama-favorability-poll
About a year ago, a national YouGov poll found that Barack Obama was “by far” the nation’s most well-liked political figure. A national CNN poll released last week pointed in a similar direction. From the network’s report:
(The poll was conducted before the recent coverage of the opening of the Obama Center in Chicago, which offered the former president a hearty dose of positive coverage.)
While only about one-fifth of Republican voters say they have a positive view of Obama, that’s actually relatively high by contemporary standards: Other living presidents have far less support from voters of the opposing party.....
As for Trump — who, incidentally, finished dead last in the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey — the Republican incumbent didn’t comment on the CNN poll, though it stands to reason that he found it disappointing, not just because of his poor showing, but because it suggests his yearslong smear campaign against Obama has failed spectacularly.....
The New York Times reported soon after, “The focus on Mr. Obama on Wednesday underscored Mr. Trump’s obsession with persuading people he is a superior leader to the former president. Over the course of the 3-day summit, Mr. Trump — who has had a fixation with the nation’s first Black president for more than a decade, starting with pushing a racist lie that he was not American — mentioned Mr. Obama by name nearly two dozen times.”
The more the Republican incumbent tries to convince people to prefer him to Obama, the more we’re confronted with evidence that most Americans still have far more favorable views of the former president than of Trump.
Obama is viewed positively by 57% of Americans, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, far surpassing the ratings for his two Oval Office successors. Only 34% of the public offers a favorable opinion of President Donald Trump, with former President Joe Biden’s favorability trailing at just 30%.
Obama’s standing among political independents is more than twice as high as either Biden’s or Trump’s.
(The poll was conducted before the recent coverage of the opening of the Obama Center in Chicago, which offered the former president a hearty dose of positive coverage.)
While only about one-fifth of Republican voters say they have a positive view of Obama, that’s actually relatively high by contemporary standards: Other living presidents have far less support from voters of the opposing party.....
As for Trump — who, incidentally, finished dead last in the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey — the Republican incumbent didn’t comment on the CNN poll, though it stands to reason that he found it disappointing, not just because of his poor showing, but because it suggests his yearslong smear campaign against Obama has failed spectacularly.....
The New York Times reported soon after, “The focus on Mr. Obama on Wednesday underscored Mr. Trump’s obsession with persuading people he is a superior leader to the former president. Over the course of the 3-day summit, Mr. Trump — who has had a fixation with the nation’s first Black president for more than a decade, starting with pushing a racist lie that he was not American — mentioned Mr. Obama by name nearly two dozen times.”
The more the Republican incumbent tries to convince people to prefer him to Obama, the more we’re confronted with evidence that most Americans still have far more favorable views of the former president than of Trump.