His approval, unfortunately, is still net positive on 538. (I don't know all the polling details of how approval is different from favorability, but it is tracked separately.)
His approval, unfortunately, is still net positive on 538. (I don't know all the polling details of how approval is different from favorability, but it is tracked separately.)
It's probably puffed up by older and/or partisan polls, or those with dubious methodology (ActiVote only polling its own users?), though I don't know the exact weighting especially as polling especially outside of an election season has been erratic in both quality and quantity. Most of the nonpartisan recent ones have roughly an even approval/disapproval split.
One that sticks out negatively but humourously is TIPP "Insights". The results aren't too bad (46 approve 41 disapprove, with substantial undecideds, which is generally expected for a new president in a divided country), but the writeup is flat-out comical: "The Shining City on the Hill has a new sheriff—and Americans are behind him. Optimism is rising as voters rally behind President Trump, backing his leadership.." Do they expect anyone outside of MAGAland to take them seriously? They almost certainly didn't say the same of Biden or Obama whose initial approval was much higher and dispproval lower.
His approval, unfortunately, is still net positive on 538. (I don't know all the polling details of how approval is different from favorability, but it is tracked separately.)
It's probably puffed up by older and/or partisan polls, or those with dubious methodology (ActiVote only polling its own users?), though I don't know the exact weighting especially as polling especially outside of an election season has been erratic in both quality and quantity. Most of the nonpartisan recent ones have roughly an even approval/disapproval split.
One that sticks out negatively but humourously is TIPP "Insights". The results aren't too bad (46 approve 41 disapprove, with substantial undecideds, which is generally expected for a new president in a divided country), but the writeup is flat-out comical: "The Shining City on the Hill has a new sheriff—and Americans are behind him. Optimism is rising as voters rally behind President Trump, backing his leadership.." Do they expect anyone outside of MAGAland to take them seriously? They almost certainly didn't say the same of Biden or Obama whose initial approval was much higher and dispproval lower.
TIPP has always been an ok pollster with absolute Republican hack writeups.