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Pliny's Point on March 23, 2017
March 23, 2017: An average of recent polls shows congressional approval rating at 19 percent, down three points from Monday, due to the removal of some older polls and addition of new data from The Economist/YouGov. Individual polls in today's results range of 14 to 24 percent approval. All of the polls included in the average are listed below.
| Source | Date range | Sample size | Job approval rating | Margin of error (+/-) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economist/YouGov[1] | 3/19 - 3/21 | 1,287 registered voters | 14% | 3.3% |
| Quinnipiac University[2] | 3/2 - 3/6 | 1,283 registered voters | 18% | 2.7% |
| Gallup[3] | 3/1 - 3/5 | 1,018 adults | 24% | 4% |
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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