The following commentary by Eleanor Clift was posted on the Daily Beast website December 15, 2017:
Things fell apart for Nixon when he dropped below 30 percent approval in his second term. Trump is getting there in his first year.
Public opinion can take off like a runaway train once it gets going. President Donald Trump, already polling lower than any of his predecessors in his first year, might soon be hearing the hoofbeats of history.
At 32 percent in the most recent Pew and Monmouth polls, he is perilously close to what most historians and political scientists say is a tipping point of 30 percent, below which a president can no longer effectively lead. Continue reading “Trump’s Numbers Near a Tipping Point”