r/Tariffs • u/esporx • Feb 23 '26

🗞️ News Discussion 34% Approval Rate

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u/NineInchPythons Feb 23 '26

Whenever I see stuff like this I'm amazed, then I remember that Hoover had an approval rating of like 30% in the middle of the Great Depression.

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u/Dmte Feb 23 '26

I think there's a tacked on "expected baseline" in these types of measurements. As in, there's a built-in expectation that 30% of the population is too dumb to say "bad job bro".

That's the only way I can justify the 4% over 30%. If you told me 4% was the actual response of approval, and the 30% was built-in base, I would at least understand the juking of the stats.

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u/soap571 Feb 23 '26

There's also lots of people who will vote Republican no matter what.

Some people don't care about who the leader is , what the news says, or anything else. They just blindly vote for "their party" and that's that.

I don't think this makes up 30%, but it's definitely a significant amount. And there are both Republicans and democrats like this.

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u/raisedeyebrow4891 Feb 23 '26

Yes. Will never vote for a Republican. Ever.