More Republicans view North Korean leader Kim Jong Un favorably than do House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro PelosiDonald Trump is delivering on his promises and voters are noticing Trump rips Democrats for allowing MS-13 'animals' into country The Hill's 12:30 Report MORE (D-Calif.), according to a poll released Monday.
The Ipsos survey conducted for the Daily Beast found that among Republicans, 19 percent indicated they hold a favorable opinion of Kim, while 17 percent said they have a favorable opinion of Pelosi.
Sixty-eight percent of Republicans said they held an unfavorable opinion of Kim, while 72 percent said they had an unfavorable view of Pelosi.
“On a daily basis, President Trump Donald John TrumpEx-ethics chief calls on Trump to end 'monstrous' migrant policies Laura Bush blasts Trump migrant policy as 'cruel' and 'immoral' US denies report of coalition airstrike on Syria MORE praises this dictator and thug so it only makes sense that his party is following his lead like lemmings over a cliff," Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill wrote in an email to The Hill responding to the poll findings.
The spokesman also pointed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellCongress had a good couple of weeks — now let's keep it going McCarthy: 'The Mueller investigation has got to stop' McConnell: Mueller 'ought to wrap it up' MORE's (R-Ky.) unfavorable rating in the Ipsos poll, saying he "is the most unpopular politician in the country." The poll found that only 20 percent of all respondents have a favorable opinion of the majority leader.
Republicans have long criticized Pelosi, using her in campaign ads to rally their base. Meanwhile, the survey results involving Kim come just one week after President Trump’s historic summit with the North Korean leader in Singapore, where the two leaders discussed reining in Pyongyang's nuclear program.
Trump and Kim signed a joint statement at the summit that said the United States would provide unspecified "security guarantees" to North Korea in exchange for Kim committing to the "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
The president has touted the meeting with Kim as a success in tweets and public appearances, though the joint statement did not include details as to how the United States would verify that Pyongyang has given up its nuclear weaponry.
Meanwhile, Pelosi in recent weeks has been battling the administration over its immigration policy.
The House minority leader last week criticized the Trump administration for its crackdown on immigrants trying to illegally cross the southern border, which has led to the separation of immigrant children from their families.
The Ipsos survey of 1,000 individuals was conducted June 14-15 and has a credibility interval of 3.5 percentage points.
memejets on June 18th, 2018 at 18:15 UTC »
TBF, in rating systems like "favorable" and "unfavorable", someone who is 51% disliked by 95% of a group is going to end up with a lower rating than someone who is 95% disliked by 90% of the group. That remaining 10% might put down that they have a favorable opinion of Kim Jong-Un, and 95% might've put down a negative opinion of Pelosi, but the strongness of that opinion isn't measured.
It's the same issue with rotten tomatoes scores in movies. Movies that only a small number of people really loved will get worse ratings than movies that more people kinda liked. If, instead of a binary answer, you had a scale of like 1-10, the average would show a very different answer.
"dislike" isn't the same as "hate", and binary ratings like that don't distinguish the difference.
It's also the same reason you see posts about random jokes and sports scores getting the same number of upvotes as important world news on Reddit. It's not to say that a silly dad-joke is more important than some huge international announcement, that isn't how those binary scores should be interpreted.
TooShiftyForYou on June 18th, 2018 at 17:18 UTC »
Among Republicans, 19 percent indicated they hold a favorable opinion of Kim, while 17 percent said they have a favorable opinion of Pelosi.
Refreshing to know that only 1 in 5 Republicans are actually buying this shit.
shogi_x on June 18th, 2018 at 17:12 UTC »
This is what happens when you put party before country.