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Yellow posted...

IronicFool posted...

Okay? If you want to get really into nuance, I suppose you could argue that many of the ~55% who disapprove are also stupid, but that doesn't exactly redeem the statement "most of America is stupid" if you think the approval rating should be even lower, since they disapprove in spite of their stupidity.

This is the most confusing sentence I've ever read on GameFAQs.

Right, let's try it a different way. Ignore political literacy or knowledge of presidential policy or current events or anything that might properly inform an opinion. Let's assume, for some crazy reason, that I am specifically talking about the simple proposed explanation "Because most of America is stupid" to the question "Why is Trump's approval rate at 45%".

If you think his approval rating should be lower:
At least 5.1% of people who disprove of the president would be required to be stupid for most of America to be stupid. This begs the question, why did they disprove? What other factors are at play? While this would be a minority of the stupid people, it's still a little more than a tenth of the required amount of stupid people approving of the president to make it a majority (that is IF all stupid people approved of the president). This is not a small number. Or, to put it simply, if Trump's approval is too high because most people are stupid, why are most people not approving?

If you think his approval rating should be higher:
Most people did not approve of the president. This view is, at least, consistent with explaining the current approval rating if you think more people should approve.

Personally, I think that there are other factors at play, and saying "most people are stupid" is absurdly simplistic, regardless of whatever you think of the current approval rating. Something like darkknight's post.

So, to reiterate:

IronicFool posted...

GRTooCool posted...

Because most of America is stupid.

Are you saying his approval rating should be higher?