NO MOVEMENT, AND THAT'S GOOD – AT 10:52 A.M. ET:  We keep watching every day for movement in the president's poll numbers.  Surely his bad language, and the effects of "that" book will doom him, say the pundits, or dumbnits, whichever you prefer.   The man will soon be at ten percent.  All his supporters will be real-estate agents. 

Uh, just a sec.  Ain't happenin'.  Once again we turn to Rasmussen, which runs the only daily poll these days: 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-four percent (54%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 28% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16.

COMMENT:  Virtually unchanged for a week.  The president is solid.  Of course, he can do something to mess it up, and he has done that before. But the recent onslaught against him has not dented his numbers, at least not in the Rasmussen poll.

The tax cut will show up in paychecks starting early in February.  I'm curious to know how that affects the numbers.  You may be sure that the Dems plan a February offensive to take voters' minds off their increase in take-home pay.

January 18,  2018