At the six-month mark of his administration, Donald Trump is less popular than any president elected in the modern polling era. Don’t expect a dramatic reversal of fortune anytime soon. A POLITICO analysis of Trump’s approval ratings and more than four decades of presidential polling data suggests it’s unlikely Trump’s […] Read more »
Gallup: No president has been less popular six months into his tenure than Donald Trump
Thursday marked President Trump’s sixth month in office. According to Gallup, no elected president has emerged from that period as unpopular as Trump in the history of polling. CONT. Philip Bump, Washington Post Read more »
Trump Sets New Low for Second-Quarter Job Approval
President Donald Trump averaged 38.8% job approval during his second quarter in office, which spanned April 20 through July 19. No other president has had a worse second-quarter average. Bill Clinton is the only other president who fell below the majority level of approval at a comparable point in his […] Read more »
Why Trump’s Base of Support May Be Smaller Than It Seems
… A new working paper by the Emory University political scientists B. Pablo Montagnes, Zachary Peskowitz and Joshua McCrain argues that people who identify as Republican may stop doing so if they disapprove of Trump, creating a false stability in his partisan approval numbers even as the absolute number of […] Read more »
Why Trump’s Approval Ratings Hold Firm
… Using the Gallup Organization’s daily tracking polls and weekly compilations of presidential approval ratings, I calculate that the default setting for the president’s public approval seems to be 39 or 40 percent in polls among all adults, usually a few points higher if the sample is limited to registered […] Read more »
Over half of modern presidents never hit an approval rating as low as Trump
More than half of US presidents in the modern era never reached an approval rating as low as President Donald Trump just hit, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll and older polling data by Gallup. CONT. Ryan Struyk, CNN Read more »