Trump\u2019s approval ratings declined within every partisan group. Two-thirds of Republicans, 1 in 7 independents and only 1 in 20 Democrats rate the president\u2019s job performance as excellent or good.<\/p>\n
The poll also shows that Trump\u2019s job performance decline coincides with the president taking a hit on his handling of several high-profile issues that had previously been cited as strengths for him.<\/p>\n
His approval rating for dealing with immigration has slid from 47% in October to 39% now, and his rating on foreign policy matters has fallen from 42% to 29% in that same period.<\/p>\n
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Franklin & Marshall College Poll<\/p>\n
But the largest decline comes when respondents were asked about his handling of inflation \u2014 finding his approval rating has dropped from 31% in October to 17% today.<\/p>\n
Nearly half of the respondents say they are worse off financially than a year ago, an increase from 36% of respondents in March.<\/p>\n
While the poll shows that economic problems like the unemployment rate, housing costs, real estate taxes and higher utility prices are top concerns among voters across the political spectrum, perceptions vary significantly depending on party affiliation.<\/p>\n
More than half of Democrats and independents say they are worse off financially, compared with just 30% of Republicans.<\/p>\n
Among those respondents who cite the economy as a problem, 42% say Democrats lead Republicans as the party that can best handle the issue rather than 24% who say Republicans are better equipped to address it.<\/p>\n
That could be why Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s job approval ratings are holding up pretty well considering how much pessimism exists among voters. The poll shows 48% of those surveyed have a favorable opinion of his job performance while 48% have an unfavorable view of his performance \u2014 consistent with his approval ratings in March.<\/p>\n
The poll also found Shapiro has a significant early lead over Republican challenger Stacy Garrity. He leads the state treasurer 50% to 28% in the race for governor this fall.<\/p>\n
Other key findings from the poll<\/p>\n
\u2022 89% of registered voters support limiting access to cellphones in schools.<\/p>\n
\u2022 72% of registered voters favor a state law that makes it illegal to discriminate in employment or housing based on a person\u2019s sexual orientation or gender identity. Voters have consistently favored such a law since the question was first asked in 2014.<\/p>\n
\u2022 71% of registered voters favor regulating and taxing skill games.<\/p>\n
\u2022 70% of registered voters support having an independent redistricting commission draw state legislative districts. Nearly 60% of voters say they oppose the mid-decade redistricting that is taking place in some states.<\/p>\n
How the poll was conducted<\/p>\n
Included in the latest Franklin & Marshall College poll is a detailed explanation of how the survey was conducted:<\/p>\n
The survey findings presented in this release are based on the results of interviews conducted June 8-14. The interviews were conducted at the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College.<\/p>\n
The poll was designed and administered by the staff of the Center for Opinion Research. The data included in this release represent the responses of 546 registered Pennsylvania voters: 233 Democrats, 226 Republicans and 87 independents.<\/p>\n
The sample of registered voters was obtained from Aristotle. All sampled respondents were notified by mail about the survey. Interviews were completed over the phone and online depending on each respondent\u2019s preference.<\/p>\n
Survey results were weighted (age, gender, education, geography and party registration) using an algorithm to reflect the known distribution of those characteristics among state voters. Estimates for age, geography and party registration are based on active voters within the Pennsylvania Department of State\u2019s voter registration data.<\/p>\n
The sample error for this survey is 5.1 percentage points when the design effects from weighting are considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Pennsylvania poll finds President Donald Trump\u2019s approval rating has hit a second-term low. The latest Franklin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[349,182,139,28,29,50,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-222472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-politics","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}