Leading up to the November election, AP worked with GfK Custom Research and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago to examine new ways to survey voters. One study, designed by NORC and funded by the Knight Foundation, explored the opportunities and challenges of using smartphones to […] Read more »
Obama Job Approval Ratings Most Politically Polarized by Far
Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama averaged 83% job approval among Democrats and 13% among Republicans. That 70-percentage-point party gap in job approval ratings easily eclipses the prior high — 61 points for George W. Bush. All other presidents had party gaps of 55 points or less. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, […] Read more »
Trump Sets New Low Point for Inaugural Approval Rating
President Donald Trump is the first elected president in Gallup’s polling history to receive an initial job approval rating below the majority level. He starts his term in office with 45% of Americans approving of the way he is handling his new job, 45% disapproving and 10% yet to form […] Read more »
3 Days Into Trump’s Presidency, 45 Percent Of Americans Disapprove Of His Performance
President Trump has been in office for three days, and on Monday he got his first job approval rating. Forty-five percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance; 45 percent disapprove, according to Gallup. That’s an improvement on his low favorability ratings, but it’s not good. Indeed, it’s the lowest […] Read more »
Obama Averages 47.9% Job Approval as President
Barack Obama finished his tenure as president with a 47.9% average job approval rating. He ranks below eight presidents and ahead of only three — Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman — in Gallup’s polling history. … His final job approval rating, based on Jan. 17-19 Gallup Daily tracking, […] Read more »
Is Trump Stronger Than He Seems?
New polls suggest that Donald J. Trump has the lowest approval and favorability ratings of any incoming president in the polling era — by a lot. Unsurprisingly, he is not buying it. He tweeted that the polls are “rigged” just like the “phony” pre-election polls that showed Hillary Clinton on […] Read more »