Donald Trump's Approval Rating Plunges As Popularity Nears All-Time Low In Latest Polls

[DonViejo]

BY TIM MARCIN ON 10/21/17 AT 11:02 AM

President Donald Trump had a week defined by tumult—but what else is new? Amid the usual flurry of controversy, his popularity has taken a dip, according to the latest approval rating polls Saturday.

Notably, Trump's approval rating neared his all-time low in the Gallup poll. The latest figure in Gallup's tracking survey, released Thursday, pegged Trump's approval at just 35 percent, down from 38 percent at this point last week. He's just one percentage point higher than his lowest rating ever of 34 percent. To make matters worse for the commander-in-chief, Trump's disapproval was nearing his all-time high, as well. It stood at 60 percent, just one percentage point off from his all-time high of 61 percent in early September. The Gallup poll surveys 1,500 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Trump fares a bit better in the tracker from data-focused website FiveThirtyEight. The site aggregates public polls and comes up with an average approval rating that accounts for each poll's quality, recency, sample size and any partisan leanings. It had Trump at 37.8 percent approval Saturday, 1.2 percentage points higher than his all-time low of 36.6 percent in the FiveThirtyEight tracker. Trump's disapproval stood at 56 percent Saturday, according to FiveThirtyEight.

Still, the former reality TV star is the most unpopular president in recent history. In the history of modern polling, no other president had as low an approval rating on day 274 of his presidency, according to FiveThirtyEight. The closest was former President Gerald Ford, who stood at 38.4 percent at the same point in his first term. It's worth noting that Ford's popularity plummeted after he pardoned his predecessor Richard Nixon, who resigned in disgrace amid the Watergate scandal. Ford's decision was unpopular at the time but has largely been accepted as a correct and courageous decision years later. And at day 274, Trump's predecessor, former President Barack Obama, had an average approval rating of 53 percent.

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[cilla4progress]

1. Well at least

There's this. Some redemption of American public.

[OliverQ]

2. Not really, it's still stupidly high and it's not really a drop from what

other polls have had him at.


Let me know when he reaches Truman's 22%.

[stevenleser]

10. I'm looking for Nixon's low of 24%. I think that is the bottom.

If someone resigning under the threat of his own party voting to impeach him doesnt get a Republican President below 24% that is probably about as low as it gets.

[world wide wally]

3. How can it be above 2%?

[Yonnie3]

4. A change in a poll approximately equal to the margin of error isn't a plunge,

as much as I'd like it to be.

A plunge would be seeing all polls go down 10%. As others have commented, I am dismayed that his approval rating is so high. fivethirtyeight.com's voter/likely voter aggregate show tRump's approval near 40%. What is wrong with the electorate?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Noticed the same stats.

Hunch is the Methodology and the Q&A is being skewed buy whom ever is ordering these polls. Appears we are seeing the true bent of the Corporate Media and their thumb on the scale effects.

After all,it is all about the sentence structure of the questions asked. If you do multiple choice,answer options are the devil in the details,and in that poses the validity.

Another issue is the selection of who is the respondent target of your survey and how are they selected and from what source. We already know that any so called On-Line Polls are a joke.

[Grammy23]

6. Might have to do with how closely they are tracking tRumps behavior, too.

Many of us on DU are highly engaged in following the news. We watch the news regularly and come here where we read more about what he has done or planning to do. So you might say we are hyper-sensitive to his every move.

They need to ask them how closely they are attuned to what tTump is doing and hinting he will do. It is not fair to say planning because I don’t think he has a clue what planning involves. Long or short term. If we knew how engaged they are on a daily basis with news related to tRump, plus the source of that news, we’d probably have a better why they rate tRump the way they do.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Polling is suspect at best.

Who is paying for the Poll,and are they seeking a desired out come. Next,who are the Polls Target group,and in this lies the real story. Next is how do they select those respondents,or what is their Data source for selecting respondents.

Lastly,what is the method of contact and the time of day. With Cell phones being the new norm,and if land lines are the primary source of contact,that skews things to being ultra conservative bent,or what is called hang up calls. And again,age related responses.

[Grammy23]

8. You touched on several of the points I was taught

Back in the 1980s in a sociology course on methods of designing and conducting surveys. All important details that will impact the outcome of your survey and the reliability of it. You surely need to think about these things if you intend to measure what you think you are measuring. If you want to skew things one way or another, you can craft your survey for that, too.

[ATL Ebony]

9. This weeks blunders will hopefully lower the rating even more.

[Garrett78]

11. Trump's ceiling and floor has always been somewhere in the 30s.

But most all of them faithfully vote with no obstacles in their way.

People need to stop obsessing over Trump's approval/disapproval rating.