TRUMP HOLDING – AT 10:53 A.M. ET:  The party-line press is now pushing the idea that Trump's support in the country is collapsing.  In fact, I see little change over the last few months.  We like to use the Rasmussen poll because it has a good history, and was quite accurate in the last election: 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 42% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.

The latest figures include 29% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 47% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18.

Rasmussen has had Trump in the low forties for months.  It's had him as high as 46%.  And a new poll, just in, ratifies the notion that Trump is doing better than many mainstream journalists are claiming.  From Washington Examiner: 

President Trump's approval rating increased to 45 percent in the first week of December, the highest mark he's received since September, according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday.

The majority of voters, 51 percent, did not approve of Trump's job in office. But his approval rating in the Dec. 1-3 survey is the highest since a Sept. 29-Oct. 1 poll in which he was also at 45 percent.

He has not been higher than 45 percent since early July. He then dipped in August in the wake of his reaction to violence in Charlottesville, Va.

Three-in-five voters saw Trump as reckless and 54 percent said he is sexist. Another 47 percent of respondents said he is racist, but 39 percent said he is not.

Forty-six percent viewed the billionaire businessman as knowledgeable, and 44 percent disagreed.

COMMENT:  The numbers are hardly all great, but they're far from terrible.  Barack Obama spent a good part of his presidency in the low forties.  I don't recall much talk about his political demise.

And remember that Trump, at the ballot box, always outperforms his polling numbers.   Some people are apparently reluctant to tell pollsters that they're Trump voters.

December 6, 2017