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So here's the second of my threads on Rasmussen polls (the first is What Americans Think about Politics, with the background of where these are coming from).
Rasmussen is, so far as I know, the only polling company that still polls on the president's job approval every weekday (except holidays). Rasmussen actually uses a three-day rolling average, with 500 Likely Voters polled daily--so each day's number is from 1,500 Likely Voters over the last three days. Still, every day is a bit too fluid for me, I prefer longer periods. So here's Biden's average numbers over the past week, month, and since he was elected. Then I toss in Trump's and Obama's numbers from the same point in their own presidencies, for comparison.
Biden's past week:
Biden's past month:
- Strong Approval 21%
- Strong Disapproval 48%
- Total Approval 41%
- Total Disapproval 58%
Biden's time in office:
- Strong Approval 22%
- Strong Disapproval 47%
- Total Approval 42%
- Total Disapproval 57%
Trump's past week:
- Strong Approval 27%
- Strong Disapproval 44%
- Total Approval 46%
- Total Disapproval 52%
Trump's past month:
- Strong Approval 31%
- Strong Disapproval 42%
- Total Approval 47%
- Total Disapproval 52%
Trump's time in office:
- Strong Approval 32%
- Strong Disapproval 42%
- Total Approval 47%
- Total Disapproval 51%
Obama's past week:
- Strong Approval 30%
- Strong Disapproval 44%
- Total Approval 46%
- Total Disapproval 54%
Obama's past month:
- Strong Approval 25%
- Strong Disapproval 42%
- Total Approval 45%
- Total Disapproval 54%
Obama's time in office:
- Strong Approval 25%
- Strong Disapproval 41%
- Total Approval 45%
- Total Disapproval 54%
- Strong Approval 32%
- Strong Disapproval 35%
- Total Approval 52%
- Total Disapproval 47%
I'm going to ignore everything you said and link to an interactive Gallup approval poll:
It's better because it's not taken every day, which is erratic, true!
So if the approval follows a + / - trend similar to Obama or Trump, he'll fare much better than Trump by the end of his term. If the Republicans lose seats in congress and the economy gets worse, then.... he'll probably still fare better by the end of his term. The GOP seems to have a leg up by having decided to declare that they have no stance on any issue. If they declared "our platform is: refuse to establish federal protection of legal abortion, refusal to take action on gun control, refusal to enact economic policies, refusal to provide health insurance, and reducing voting rights" they'd suffer. "Own libs" does well with the public! I don't think any of their policy positions do, although "partial birth abortion" and "voter ID" might win as subsets of larger topics.