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Pliny's Point on January 24, 2017

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By Ballotpedia Staff

January 24, 2017: An average of recent polls indicates that 30 percent think the U.S. is moving in the right direction. Polls included in this average are listed below.[1]

Polling source, date range and percent of respondents who said the country was moving in the right direction:

  • Rasmussen Reports (1/15 - 1/19): 38 percent[2]
  • Economist/YouGov (1/14 - 1/17): 23 percent[3]
  • Reuters/Ipsos (1/13 - 1/17): 25 percent[4]
  • CBS News (1/13 - 1/16): 29 percent[5]
  • Washington Post/ABC (1/12 - 1/15): 29 percent[6]
  • Wall Street Journal/NBC (1/12 - 1/15): 37 percent[7][8]

Methodology

For Ballotpedia's presidential approval, congressional approval, and direction of the country polling results, we take an average of the most recent polls (within the last 30 days) on these topics conducted by 10 sources:

Ballotpedia chose to include polls from these organizations in our averages because we regard their results as broadly trustworthy and reliable. We average the results because we believe that paints a clearer picture of public opinion than any individual poll can provide. The data is updated daily or as new polling results from the above sources are published.

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.


Click here for more Pliny's Point articles.

See also

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Correction: The initial publication of this article indicated a 29 percent favorable rating for the direction of the country, but this number has since been updated so as not to include polls that were conducted before 2017.
  2. ↑ Rasmussen Reports, "Right Direction or Wrong Track," January 23, 2017
  3. ↑ YouGov, "The Economist/YouGov Poll," January 14 - 17, 2017
  4. ↑ Ipsos, "Reuters/Ipsos Data: Core Political," January 18, 2017
  5. ↑ CBS News, "CBS News Poll: Expectations for the Trump Presidency," January 13-16, 2017
  6. ↑ The Washington Post, "Washington Post-ABC News Poll," January 12-15, 2017
  7. ↑ Hart Research Associates/Public Opinion Strategies, "NBC News/Wall Street Journal Survey," January 12-15, 2017
  8. ↑ Real Clear Politics, "Direction of Country polls," accessed January 24, 2017


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