President Donald Trump bragged on Twitter that his approval rating with black Americans has doubled. It hasn't.
Only 15% of black Americans said they approved of Trump's job performance in the days following his inauguration last January — and it's only gone downhill from there. In the most recent Gallup weekly numbers, only 6% of black Americans said they approved of the President's job performance.
The
most recent CNN polling, from December, shows that only 3% of black Americans said they approved of how Trump is handling his job nearly a year into his White House tenure. A whopping 91% said they disapproved.
But that didn't stop Trump from tweeting on Tuesday morning that his approval among black Americans had doubled. "Unemployment for Black Americans is the lowest ever recorded. Trump approval ratings with Black Americans has doubled. Thank you, and it will get even (much) better!" he wrote.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/politics/trump-black-approval-rating/index.html
Ah, perhaps CNN has made an error in their sourcing, but the citation they make of the SSRS study (not "CNN's study", as the reporter claims), following the link THEY PROVIDE in the article,
does not support that claim.
Here is the entire 22 page document:
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4332852-Trump-and-taxes.html
The data does not distinguish "Black" voters at all, only White & Non-White. They have may have more data, but they are not presenting it for examination. In fact, page 9 states the company weighted values to try and represent gender, race, age, education, and more (full list later in post) based upon national population figures of the US Census. These weighted numbers carry a +/- of up to 8.5.
Maybe the reporter was confused by the data fields? I have no idea, but here is what is actually in that report.
Unweighted:
n = 1001
+/- 3.6, .95
Page 10
1. (A1) Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
Approve: Non-White 18% (so anywhere from 11.7 - 24.3, .95 CI)
Disapprove: Non-White 75% (68.7 - 81.3, .95 CI)
Other: Non-White 6% (0 - 12.3, .95 CI)
SSRS presents weighted data for the following subsets: Men, Women, White, Non-White, 18-34, 35-49, 50-64, 65+, <45, 45+, <$50k, $50k+, Non-College Grad, College Grad, White Non-College Grad, White College Grad, Democrat, Independent, Republican, Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, Lean Democrat, Lean Conservative, Trump Approve, Trump Disapprove.
Any conclusion on "Black" were either withheld from the report made public, or much worse, were extrapolated by the reporter from the already-extrapolated data presented.
Didn't stop them from stating it as fact though.