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Pliny's Point on February 21, 2017
February 21, 2017: An average of recent polls shows President Donald Trump's approval rating at 44 percent, down one point from yesterday due to the addition of new data from Gallup and Rasmussen Reports. The Gallup poll approval rating increased from 41 percent to 42 percent since yesterday, but the daily polls from Rasmussen Reports showed a drop in the approval rating from 55 to 51 percent. President Trump's average daily approval rating has held steady at 44 to 45 percent for most days since he took office. View all results from previous days here. All of the polls included in today's average are listed below.
| Source | Date range | Sample size | Job approval rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gallup[1] | 2/17 - 2/19 | 1,500 adults | 42% |
| Rasmussen Reports[2] | 2/15 - 2/19 | 1,500 likely voters | 51% |
| The Economist/YouGov[3] | 2/12 - 2/14 | 1,100 registered voters | 46% |
| Reuters/Ipsos[4] | 2/10 - 2/14 | 1,774 adults | 46% |
| Fox News[5] | 2/11 - 2/13 | 1,013 registered voters | 48% |
| Quinnipiac University[6] | 2/2 - 2/6 | 1,155 registered voters | 42% |
| CBS News[7] | 2/1 - 2/2 | 1,019 adults | 40% |
| Pew Research[8] | 2/7 - 2/12 | 1,503 adults | 39% |
Methodology
For Ballotpedia's presidential approval, congressional approval, and direction of the country polling results, we take an average of the most recent polls on one or more of these topics conducted by 12 sources. Polls may be included in the average for up to 30 days, though this timeline may be adjusted to account for major news events as we attempt to balance the need for a larger sample of results with the need to remove outdated information. For a full description of our methodology and polling explanations, see: Ballotpedia's Polling Indexes.
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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Footnotes
- ↑ Gallup, "Trump Job Approval," accessed February 21, 2017
- ↑ Rasmussen Reports, "Trump Approval Index History," accessed February 21, 2017
- ↑ YouGov, "The Economist/YouGov Poll," February 12-14, 2017
- ↑ Ipsos, "Reuters/Ipsos Data: Core Political," February 15, 2017
- ↑ Fox News, "Fox News Poll," February 14, 2017
- ↑ Quinnipiac University, "American Voters Oppose Trump Immigration Ban, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Big Gender Gap As Voters Disapprove Of Trump," February 7, 2017
- ↑ CBS News, "Americans sharply divided along partisan lines over travel ban, Trump: CBS News poll," February 3, 2017
- ↑ Pew Research Center, "In First Month, Views of Trump Are Already Strongly Felt, Deeply Polarized," February 16, 2017
