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Pliny's Point
Pliny's Point was a polling feature that ran from January 20, 2017 to September 1, 2017. For current polling information, see: Ballotpedia's Polling Indexes.
Methodology
Daily polling averages
Past Points
September: 1
August: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31
July: 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 31
June: 1 • 2 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30
May: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 29 • 30 • 31
April: 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28
March: 1 • 2 • 3 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31
February: 1 • 2 • 3 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 27 • 28
January: 20 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 30 • 31
What’s in a name?
Pliny the Elder, a scholar from the Roman Empire, is most well known for writing the encyclopedic work Naturalis Historia, or “Natural History.” His extremely thorough work covered everything from botany to technology. Naturalis Historia, one of the largest Roman works that still exists from the first century A.D., became an example for future encyclopedic works through its formatting, references, and comprehensiveness.
Today, Ballotpedia works to preserve and expand knowledge, just like Pliny did hundreds of years ago. One of the features of Ballotpedia, the encyclopedia of American politics, was a daily statistic called Pliny’s Point. Each day, between January 20, 2017 and September 1, 2017, readers learned where Americans stood on the direction of the country, or their approval of elected officials.
See also
Coverage areas: Elections • Federal Politics • State Politics • Local Politics • Public Policy • Influencers • Fact-checking
