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Pliny's Point on March 22, 2017
March 22, 2017: An average of recent polls shows President Donald Trump's approval rating at 45 percent, slightly higher than on Friday, due to the removal of polls older than 30 days from The Wall Street Journal/NBC and CBS News, as well as the addition of new polls from Gallup, Rasmussen Reports, and Politico/Morning Consult. All of the polls included in today's average are listed below, and range from 39 to 50 percent approval.
| Source | Date range | Sample size | Job approval rating | Margin of error (+/-) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gallup[1] | 3/18 - 3/20 | 1,500 adults | 39% | 3% |
| Rasmussen Reports[2] | 3/16 - 3/20 | 1,500 likely voters | 50% | 2.5%</td |
| Politico/Morning Consult[3] | 3/16 - 3/19 | 1,927 registered voters | 50% | 2%</td |
| Economist/YouGov[4] | 3/13 - 3/14 | 1,320 registered voters | 44% | 3.3%</td |
| Fox News[5] | 3/12 - 3/14 | 1,008 registered voters | 43% | 3%</td |
| Reuters/Ipsos[6] | 3/10 - 3/14 | 1,750 adults | 45% | 2.7%</td |
| Quinnipiac University[7] | 3/2 - 3/6 | 1,283 registered voters | 41% | 2.7%</td |
| USA Today/Suffolk University[8] | 3/1 - 3/5 | 1,000 registered voters | 47% | 3%</td |
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 March 22, 2017
- ↑ Rasmussen Reports, "Trump Approval Index History," accessed March 22, 2017
- ↑ Politico/Morning Consult, "National Tracking Poll," March 16-19, 2017
- ↑ YouGov, "The Economist/YouGov Poll," March 13-14, 2017
- ↑ Fox News, "Fox News Poll," March 15, 2017
- ↑ Ipsos, "Reuters/Ipsos Data: Core Political," March 15, 2017
- ↑ Quinnipiac University, "Trump Inches Up, But Still Has Negative Approval Rating, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds," March 7, 2017
- ↑ USA Today, "USA TODAY Poll: Tweets and temperament are tripping up President Trump," March 7, 2017
