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Pliny's Point on January 26, 2017
January 26, 2017: An average of recent polls indicates a 47 percent approval rating for President Donald Trump. Polls included in this average are listed below.
Polling source, date range and percent of respondents who indicated approval for President Trump:
- Economist/YouGov (1/23 - 1/25): 43 percent[1]
- Gallup (1/22 - 1/24): 46 percent[2]
- Rasmussen Reports (1/22 - 1/24): 57 percent[3]
- Reuters/Ipsos (1/20 - 1/24) : 43 percent[4]
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:
- CBS News (or CBS News and The New York Times)
- The Economist / YouGov
- Fox News
- Gallup
- Pew Research (presidential approval rating only)
- Rasmussen Reports
- Reuters / Ipsos
- USA Today / Suffolk University
- The Wall Street Journal / NBC
- The Washington Post / ABC
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
Ballotpedia daily polling averages:
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Footnotes
