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Home Front: Politix

Record Numbers of Americans Want to Leave the U.S..... but still don't

2019-01-06

[Gallup] WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While Donald Trump has spent much of his presidency focused on the number of people who want to get into the U.S., since he took office, record numbers of Americans have wanted to get out.

Though relatively average by global standards, the 16% of Americans overall who said in 2017 and again in 2018 that they would like to permanently move to another country -- if they could -- is higher than the average levels during either the George W. Bush (11%) or Barack Obama administration (10%).

While Gallup's World Poll does not ask people about their political leanings, most of the recent surge in Americans' desire to migrate has come among groups that typically lean Democratic and that have disapproved of Trump's job performance so far in his presidency: women, young Americans and people in lower-income groups.

During the first two years of the Trump administration, a record-high one in five U.S. women (20%) said they would like to move to another country permanently if they could. This is twice the average for women during the Obama (10%) or Bush years (11%) and almost twice the level among men (13%) under Trump. Before the Trump years, there was no difference between men's and women's desires to move.

Posted by:Besoeker

#14 Hopefully if Trump wins re-election they'll get motivated enough.

Posted by: ruprecht 2019-01-06 21:43

#13 AlanC, what's stopping them might be that no where will take them...

Posted by: Glenmore 2019-01-06 19:25

#12 Hey now!

Posted by: Frank G 2019-01-06 16:11

#11 Record Numbers of Americans Want to ~~Leave the U.S~~ exercise more and eat less..... but still don't

Difference between will and shall

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-01-06 15:17

#10 :-)

Posted by: Crash Dark Lord of the Veal Cutlets1879 2019-01-06 11:31

#9 TrollBGone spray *shakes can*

Posted by: Frank G 2019-01-06 11:16

#8 Even Mattis can't stand being around Drumpf.

Posted by: Otto Forkbeard2391 2019-01-06 11:11

#7 According to project fivethirtyeight Gallup gets a grade=B with an Advanced Plus-Minus=+0.5

Negative numbers are good on that plus-minus so meh.

Did you think that the coordinated disinformation campaign being waged by the MSM was having no effect? My answer is don't let the door bang your butt on the way out.

Posted by: Crash Dark Lord of the Veal Cutlets1879 2019-01-06 10:39

#6 I have two clients from Argentina, married couple. During Obama's reign, we know that question was asked on our side, so I asked him if he ever considered moving back there.

"Raj, I don't care how fucking bad things ever got here, it will always be better than down in that shithole."

"What about Brazil?" He just laughed and gave me the 'what the fuck' stare, which is what I was looking for, and that made me start laughing too.

Naturally, these 'record number of Americans' fail to understand why people move here in the first place.

Posted by: Raj 2019-01-06 09:09

#5 if they could.

And what, exactly, is stopping them?

/rhet

Posted by: AlanC 2019-01-06 08:20

#4 What happened to all those celebrities who where going to move if Trump won. They seem to still be here despite having the money to move.

Posted by: Chris 2019-01-06 08:09

#3 Move Hollyweird to Vancouver, they with the Chinese can drive living costs up even higher!

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-01-06 07:21

#2 a record-high one in five U.S. women (20%) said they would like to move to another country permanently if they could.

Boy are they going to in for a surprise.

Posted by: Flolutle Thrinenter3597 2019-01-06 06:31

#1 I was thinking Davos or St Moritz. Appears to be only one thing holding me back.

Posted by: Besoeker 2019-01-06 06:22

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