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Pliny's Point on February 10, 2017
February 10, 2017: An average of Gallup polls for the five presidents prior to President Donald Trump shows a 54 percent approval rating. Trump's overall average approval rating from Gallup polls for his first 21 days in office is at 44 percent. According to Ballotpedia's most-recent polling average, which includes polling data from a variety of sources, Trump's approval rating is currently at 45 percent.[1]
| Gallup: Average first-term approval rating by President | |
|---|---|
| Barack Obama | 48% |
| George W. Bush | 62% |
| Bill Clinton | 50% |
| George H.W. Bush | 61% |
| Ronald Reagan | 50% |
| AVERAGE | 54% |
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.
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See also
Ballotpedia daily polling averages:
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