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Pliny's Point on March 13, 2017
March 13, 2017: An average of recent polls shows President Donald Trump's approval rating holding at 45 percent. This includes updated polling data from Gallup and Rasmussen Reports, as well as the removal of a poll from Pew Research that was older than 30 days. All of the polls included in today's average are listed below.
| Source | Date range | Sample size | Job approval rating | Margin of error (+/-) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gallup | 3/9 - 3/11 | 1,500 adults | 45% | 3% |
| Rasmussen Reports | 3/7 - 3/9 | 1,500 likely voters | 48% | 2.5% |
| Quinnipiac University | 3/2 - 3/6 | 1,283 registered voters | 41% | 2.7% |
| USA Today/Suffolk University | 3/1 - 3/5 | 1,000 registered voters | 47% | 3% |
| Economist/YouGov | 3/6 - 3/7 | 1,359 registered voters | 44% | 3.4% |
| Reuters/Ipsos | 3/3 - 3/7 | 1,662 adults | 48% | 2.7% |
| Politico/Morning Consult | 3/2-3/6 | 1,992 registered voters | 50% | 2% |
| Wall Street Journal/NBC | 2/18 - 2/22 | 1,000 adults | 44% | 3.1% |
| CBS News | 2/17 - 2/21 | 1,280 adults | 39% | 3% |
| Fox News | 2/11 - 2/13 | 1,013 registered voters | 48% | 3% |
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account for major news events as we attempt to balance the need for a larger sample of results with the need to remove outdated information.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
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