Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for May 2, 2017
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May 2, 2017: As President Trump wraps up his first 100 days in office, women who strongly supported him as a candidate give his performance rave reviews. But these women—whom we'll call "high-intensity Trump supporters" based on criteria you can find by clicking here—have little good to say about Congress.
When these women were asked to rate the president’s performance on a scale from one to seven, fewer than 1 percent offered an unsatisfactory opinion (1 or 2 on the scale). Just under 3 percent had a neutral view (3, 4, or 5), and 97 percent said they were satisfied with his performance (rating it either a 6 or a 7). This data comes from the Women & Trump 150 Index created by the Sorock Research Group.
These numbers stand in sharp contrast to recent media commentary suggesting that many Trump supporters are becoming disillusioned. On the one-to-seven scale, these women give President Trump an average rating of 6.76.
But, while they may not be disillusioned with the president, Trump's high-intensity female supporters are quite unhappy with Congress. Sixty-one percent give Congress an unfavorable rating, 34 percent are neutral, and only 5 percent of these women are satisfied with Congress.
While women overall are less supportive of the president than men, Trump did win 41 percent of the female vote on Election Day. And he won a majority (52 percent) of the vote from white women.[1] But not all of these voters count as high-intensity Trump supporters, of course; many voters disapproved of both candidates and simply had to choose one or the other.
Sorock Research asked high-intensity female Trump supporters to select the top three issues that mattered to them. The most common answers:
- 71 percent said it was important to them that Trump deliver on his promises.
- 66 percent said addressing immigration mattered to them.
- 51 percent said defending the police and military was important to them.
On the subject of immigration, Sorock found that 83 percent of high-intensity Trump supporters still think it’s very important to build a wall along the Mexican border. That’s unchanged since Election Day. In fact, these Trump supporters rate building the wall as more important than suspending the Syrian refugee program, lowering taxes, auditing the federal reserve, and other issues.
Following the election of Barack Obama, many conservatives were convinced that many Obama supporters regretted their vote. But, then as now, there was no data to back up the assertion. In the case of both Obama and Trump, their job approval ratings stayed just a few points below their vote total, suggesting a very loyal base. In the case of Trump, it remains to be seen what will happen in the coming years.
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