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Anyone Notice That Trump Is Now Tied With 'Popular' Obama On Job Approval?
6/19/2018
Popularity: President Trump can't get a break from negative press coverage, but somehow his approval rating continues to edge upward. In fact, it's now tied with where the "extremely popular" President Obama was at this point in his first term.
The latest Gallup poll puts Trump's job approval at 45%. That's the highest it's been since he took office, and it's up from 37% at the start of the year. Although you'd barely know it from the press Trump gets, his approval number has been on a slow but relatively steady rise all year.
Not only that, but Trump's approval in this poll is now equal to Obama's at the same point in Obama's presidency. Gallup had Obama at 45% approval by late June 2010.
The difference is that while Trump's approval has been climbing, Obama's was dropping steadily over the course of his first term.
When Obama took office, he had an approval rating of 67%. By August of that year, it had fallen to 50%. A year later it was down to 43% in Gallup's poll.
By this point in Obama's presidency, his average approval was 47.9% and falling, according to Real Clear Politics. By October of 2010, it dropped down to 44%. Trump's average is currently 43.7%, and on the uptrend.
Even more striking is the fact that the public's approval of Obama was sagging even while his press coverage was overwhelmingly positive.
A Pew Research Center study that came out last fall found that in Obama's first two months in office positive stories outweighed negative ones by two to one. A separate analysis by the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that over his first year in office almost 70% of the coverage about Obama himself was positive, as were 54% of the stories about his job performance.
And that's to say nothing of the adoration heaped on Obama by celebrities and media pundits.
Over Trump's first two months, by contrast, 62% of the stories were negative and 33% neutral. A mere 5% were positive. And if you took Fox News out of the mix, the share of positive coverage probably would almost entirely disappear. It's unlikely that Trump's coverage has improved any since.
But even as Obama's approval numbers sagged, the press continued to describe him as popular. The Washington Post called him "the popular president" in May, when his approval rating had dropped below 50%. In July, the New York Times quoted a consultant — without mockery — as saying "he's still an extremely popular president."
The IBD/TIPP Poll has consistently shown Trump's approval below the Real Clear Politics average. But his approval had been climbing in our poll as well. His 36% approval rating in June is up from 33% last October. What's more, the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index — a broader approval measure — shows a steady rise since October, when it stood at 36.5, to June's 41.1.
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https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-approval-rating-gallup-poll-obama-popularity/
6/19/2018
Popularity: President Trump can't get a break from negative press coverage, but somehow his approval rating continues to edge upward. In fact, it's now tied with where the "extremely popular" President Obama was at this point in his first term.
The latest Gallup poll puts Trump's job approval at 45%. That's the highest it's been since he took office, and it's up from 37% at the start of the year. Although you'd barely know it from the press Trump gets, his approval number has been on a slow but relatively steady rise all year.
Not only that, but Trump's approval in this poll is now equal to Obama's at the same point in Obama's presidency. Gallup had Obama at 45% approval by late June 2010.
The difference is that while Trump's approval has been climbing, Obama's was dropping steadily over the course of his first term.
When Obama took office, he had an approval rating of 67%. By August of that year, it had fallen to 50%. A year later it was down to 43% in Gallup's poll.
By this point in Obama's presidency, his average approval was 47.9% and falling, according to Real Clear Politics. By October of 2010, it dropped down to 44%. Trump's average is currently 43.7%, and on the uptrend.
Even more striking is the fact that the public's approval of Obama was sagging even while his press coverage was overwhelmingly positive.
A Pew Research Center study that came out last fall found that in Obama's first two months in office positive stories outweighed negative ones by two to one. A separate analysis by the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that over his first year in office almost 70% of the coverage about Obama himself was positive, as were 54% of the stories about his job performance.
And that's to say nothing of the adoration heaped on Obama by celebrities and media pundits.
Over Trump's first two months, by contrast, 62% of the stories were negative and 33% neutral. A mere 5% were positive. And if you took Fox News out of the mix, the share of positive coverage probably would almost entirely disappear. It's unlikely that Trump's coverage has improved any since.
But even as Obama's approval numbers sagged, the press continued to describe him as popular. The Washington Post called him "the popular president" in May, when his approval rating had dropped below 50%. In July, the New York Times quoted a consultant — without mockery — as saying "he's still an extremely popular president."
The IBD/TIPP Poll has consistently shown Trump's approval below the Real Clear Politics average. But his approval had been climbing in our poll as well. His 36% approval rating in June is up from 33% last October. What's more, the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index — a broader approval measure — shows a steady rise since October, when it stood at 36.5, to June's 41.1.
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https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-approval-rating-gallup-poll-obama-popularity/