Professor Moriarty wrote: » His ratings are beautiful. Gallup has him jumping from 44% two weeks ago to 49% today. 60% of voters think he's doing a good job dealing with the coronavirus epidemic. Depressing.
Joe_ Public wrote: » Marion McKeown made point on Sean O'Rourke earlier that support for trump might be hardening among his base in rural states like idaho, wyoming which are fairly isolated and may not understand the severity. This can probably apply to the likes of texas, colorado and others which are very rural too. They just hear about some emergency happening, dont see the immediate effects and assume their great leader is on top of things. His declaration about keeping churches open for Easter likely a conscious attempt to play to this constituency. Guy is a monster, but he's not stupid by a long way.
Tchaikovsky wrote: » I mean it will be stupid when all his voters who attend church around Easter die.
Water John wrote: » See a clip of a pastor last night having gatherings of 1,000 people in his church. He says he lay his hands on them if they get the virus. That's Trump's base.
Manic Moran wrote: » So where do you place the college students who have been packing the beaches on spring break? They're supposedly Bernie's base, aren't they? Oh, guess what. They're testing positive now.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spring-breakers-who-ignored-coronavirus-warnings-contract-coronavirus/ Might I suggest that there are idiots everywhere?
Harry Palmr wrote: » The GOP really ought to be scared that an important % of it's base might die.
marno21 wrote: » A few posts above echo an important point, the coronavirus is only severely impacting a small amount of areas so far, and a lot of the population has so far been sheltered from it. However, given the unrestrained level of air travel and general transmission of the virus, it's only a matter of time before it becomes widespread and people's views on how the WH shambles is handling it might change.
Manic Moran wrote: » So where do you place the college students who have been packing the beaches on spring break? They're supposedly Bernie's base, aren't they? Oh, guess what. They're testing positive now.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spring-breakers-who-ignored-coronavirus-warnings-contract-coronavirus/ Might I suggest that idiocy knows no political boundaries?
aloyisious wrote: » Re those in rural areas who think that factor makes them safe, it also means there may be a lack of 1st responders & fit for purpose medical clinics to keep them alive until the virus in them dies off & they survive it.
rossie1977 wrote: » Shocking thing in that poll is that 14% of Dem voters believe Trump over everyone else
Penn wrote: » Yeah I was wondering the same. Once it does eventually start hitting some of the more rural areas, will the medical facilities in those areas have the capacity to treat the influx of infected persons compared to the facilities in the more populous areas?
William Legrande wrote: » Watching the press conference on coronavirus on CNN just now and he indulged in a lengthy rant about the EU not allowing American medical equipment - the best in the world - to be sold here. From them he went on to NATO and mentioned making somebody (can't remember the name) pay an extra 400 billion towards it. He went on then accuse a reporter of creating fake news in order for him to lose the electiion. At the moment he is talking about his 164 miles of big, beautiful wall.
aloyisious wrote: » He's more vocal at a press conference about the EU not allowing US medical equipment to be sold here than he is pushed about reserving and supplying that medical equipment to his own ill country people? While it's nice to have a good trade balance, national income and foreign currency stock in the coffers, is it worth it if its at the cost of burying the voters he'll need in Nov in the intervening months?
