Pliny's Point on February 15, 2017

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By Ballotpedia Staff

February 15, 2017: An average of recent polls shows a 45 percent approval rating for President Donald Trump, up one point from yesterday due to new data from a Fox News poll. All of the polls included in this average are shown below.

Source	Date range	Sample size	Job approval rating
Fox News	2/11 - 2/13	1,013 registered voters	48%
Gallup	2/11 - 2/13	1,500 adults	40%
Rasmussen Reports	2/9 - 2/13	1,500 likely voters	52%
Economist/YouGov	2/5 - 2/7	1,315 registered voters	44%
Reuters/Ipsos	2/3 - 2/7	1,896 adults	48%
Quinnipiac University	2/2 - 2/6	1,155 registered voters	42%
CBS News	2/1 - 2/2	1,019 adults	40%

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account for major news events as we attempt to balance the need for a larger sample of results with the need to remove outdated information.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

• Pliny's Point

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• Direction of country

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