The New York Times is testing a pretty desperate excuse for Donald Trump’s stubborn approval ratings, which aren’t awful, despite the unanimity of mainstream media against him. Cue the sneers about “lower-information voters”!
The online headline encapsulated the main excuse: “One Thing Helping Trump’s Approval Rating: Some People Are Not Paying Attention.”
The subhead: “Voters were more likely to approve of President Trump’s job performance if they had not been following some of the major news stories of his first 100 days in office, a recent New York Times/Siena College poll found.”
Times poll developer Ruth Igielnik settled on a condescending angle to explain away Trump’s supposedly inflated thought still negative approval ratings: People aren’t paying attention to what Trump is doing (or at least not paying sufficient heed to…
