Two stats stand out in the polls this morning: President Obama has ascended to 58 percent on the favorability question. And Trump is up 5 percent in Ohio.

So in thinking about how deplorable we all are, we have to begin by appreciating that a solid majority of Americans think well of their African-American president. They would almost surely return him to office, if the Constitution permitted.

There are a lot of reasons for that. One, of course, is that he seems pretty classy in comparison with the two major presidential contenders. And another is that Americans are not as much in rebellion against his policies as conservatives would wish.

We conservatives have to face the truth that Trump, despite being personally deplorable and completely unqualified to be our chief executive, might be doing fairly well precisely because he’s not so conservative.

Well, it’s true enough that he has managed to lock down most of the Republican vote, despite all the Never Trumper public intellectuals. So conservatives with various degrees of reluctance seem to be choosing him.

What about Ohio? Is that state hugely populated with deplorable bigots who have been psyched up by Trump’s various dog whistles? But why would a significant number of those Buckeyes both be okay with returning their classy black president to office and voting for the “not a gentleman” Trump?

Consider, for a moment, Romney’s 47 percent remark, his secret suck-up to oligarchic big givers that was outed.

What Mitt (whom I like a lot) meant was that about half of Americans can’t get excited about schemes for cutting the income tax, given that they already don’t pay it.

That was a misleading and genuinely deplorable remark in a couple of ways.

Here’s what Trump seems to have taken from it: You can’t campaign both on cutting taxes for the rich and cutting back on entitlements. Obama’s response to key voters in Ohio: “I have your back.” No one is messing with your safety nets under my watch. That’s the same as Trump’s response.

Trump himself is for a hugely pro-growth tax policy, which is mainly a cut for the rich. But he adds: What I’ll do with all that growth is preserve the Social Security, Medicare, and so forth you already have. I’ll even make something like Obamacare sustainable by making a much better deal. Now, there’s enough baloney there to feed Cleveland for a week, but still, that’s what people in Ohio may want to hear.

For many conservatives, the most deplorable fact about American voters this year is that more than half of them were for either Trump or Sanders. A terrible year for classic liberals and lovers of freedom generally! Well, that’s actually true. We conservatives have to really think about that.