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Found these on Wikipedia this am - thought they were interesting enough to share.
The top of the yellow field is approval, the bottom of it is disapproval.
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H W Bush
Bill Clinton
George W Bush
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Arkansas Granny
(31,519 posts)PatSeg
(47,512 posts)Couldn't put my finger on it!
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...but not Trump.
Celerity
(43,419 posts)FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Trump Job Approval at Personal Best 49%
https://news.gallup.com/poll/284156/trump-job-approval-personal-best.aspx
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Approval among Republicans hits 94%
Poll shows highest party polarization on record
Half of registered voters say Trump deserves to be re-elected
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump's job approval rating has risen to 49%, his highest in Gallup polling since he took office in 2017.
The new poll finds 50% of Americans disapproving of Trump, leaving just 1% expressing no opinion. The average percentage not having an opinion on Trump has been 5% throughout his presidency.
Trump's approval rating has risen because of higher ratings among both Republicans and independents. His 94% approval rating among Republicans is up six percentage points from early January and is three points higher than his previous best among his fellow partisans. The 42% approval rating among independents is up five points, and ties three other polls as his best among that group. Democratic approval is 7%, down slightly from 10%.
PatSeg
(47,512 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Really interesting from a historical aspect and the present Orange Nero graphs. He could literally shoot someone on 5th ave and lose no supporters. Yet he never will gain any supporters. The flatline says a lot about the GOP today as well.
whopis01
(3,514 posts)What jumps out to me is that no one (or very few at least) is changing their mind. What they thought at the start of his term is what they think now - whether they love him or hate him.
Arthur_Frain
(1,853 posts)Im not sure I understand what you meant about the top of the yellow being approval and the bottom of the yellow being disapproval. If that were so at one point in the first graph I note a 92% approval and 82% disapproval rating at the same time, which isnt poss, so I am obviously missing something.
What I find interesting is: Why does the yellow span shrink so dramatically after H.W. Bush? Youve got a pretty uniform space during all the time before, maybe shrinking a little, but by the time you get to Clinton, the yellow is a small, disappearing strip.
I also note that since Clinton, nobody gets a honeymoon anymore.
ooky
(8,924 posts)and he had some very narrow margins < 1% in battleground states. So it would seem we beat him if we GOTV in the battleground states.
We need to get the attention of some traditional non voters in those states.