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Presidential Job Approval
poll position
Jan. 28, 2024
4 Reasons Biden’s 2024 Odds May Be Better Than You Think The president is quite unpopular, but an improving economy and a potentially criminal opponent may swing the election in Democrats’ favor.
early and often
Dec. 12, 2023
Biden’s Low Job Approval Doesn’t Mean He’s Doomed in 2024 The president’s sub-40 job-approval rating isn’t unusually low, and the figure may matter less against the also unpopular Trump.
early and often
June 16, 2023
Why Do So Many Americans Think Biden Is Doing a Bad Job? Polls show quite a few Democrats and independents aren’t happy with Biden on crime, inflation, and immigration, even though conditions are improving.
Will Presidents Ever Be Popular Again? For reasons including mistrustful independents and disappointed partisans, being relatively unpopular may just be a part of the job now.
Biden’s War Bounce Isn’t Big Enough to Save the Midterms Biden’s popularity improved following the Ukraine crisis and the State of the Union. But he’d need a far bigger bump to help Democrats in November.
2022 midterms
Jan. 24, 2022
Democrats Need Republican Mistakes to Hang On to the Senate A normal midterm swing could help Republicans sweep close Senate races. But Trump and intraparty problems could help Democrats keep control.
past is prologue
Nov. 25, 2021
Cheer Up, Democrats! You’ve Had It Worse Than This. The Democratic Party has a lot of problems, but it’s faced similarly sticky situations before and survived.
Biden’s Approval Rating Goes Underwater Biden’s stretch of unobtrusive popularity is over for now, but he is in very good company as a president with net-negative approval ratings.
afghanistan
Aug. 16, 2021
The Fall of Saigon Didn’t End Gerald Ford’s Presidency Events in Kabul are bringing back memories of 1975. Will Joe Biden get through his crisis as the 38th president did back then?
poll roundup
Apr. 25, 2021
Biden Has Modest Approval From Americans Ahead of 100-Day Mark But his pandemic response enjoys solid popularity, and the public appears to like the post-Trump return to presidential normalcy.
Biden Builds Popularity by Focusing on COVID Relief Plan The COVID-19 stimulus is more popular than Biden himself. That is the key to his stable job-approval rating so far.
Trump’s Job Approval Plunging as He Leaves Office Trump’s support is in free fall, but is high enough among Republicans to keep them from dumping him. Biden enters office with a bit of a honeymoon.
presidential job approval
Dec. 4, 2020
Will Joe Biden Get a Public Opinion ‘Honeymoon?’ He’ll probably be more popular at the start of his presidency than Trump was. How much that helps him achieve his agenda is another matter.
vision 2020
Sept. 2, 2020
Polls Reveal the Conventions to Be Enormous Wastes of Time and Effort The basic shape of the race hasn’t changed after the conventions, though a poll from Pennsylvania is good news for Trump
Economic ‘Comeback’ Is Not Making Trump More Popular So far, good, if tentative, economic news is being overshadowed by entrenched negative reactions to Trump’s personality and leadership style.
Biden’s Polling Lead Over Trump Is Getting Seriously Large With five months to go, Biden’s leading nationally by a comfortable margin and also in six battleground states Trump won in 2016.
The State of the Presidential Race, Six Months Before Election Day Recent presidential elections show the eventual winner ahead at this point, except for Trump himself in 2016.
vision 2020
Apr. 22, 2020
Trump’s Coronavirus Approval Bounce May Be Gone COVID-19 may yet determine Trump’s fate, but the pandemic’s initial boost to his approval ratings has been vanishing.
vision 2020
Apr. 15, 2020
Trump’s Once-Rosy Reelection Prospects Are Darkening Rapidly Without a booming economy to claim, Trump’s mediocre job-approval ratings are likely to be a ceiling, rather than a floor, on his support.
vision 2020
Mar. 24, 2020
Trump’s Approval Ratings Are Up, But for How Long? Believe it or not, the public thinks he’s doing a good job on coronavirus. But as the economy worsens, voters’ warm feelings may prove ephemeral.
vision 2020
Feb. 20, 2020
Yes, Trump’s Job-Approval Ratings Are Finally Rising It’s unclear whether it’s real and will last, but it’s happening at the perfect time for Trump.
vision 2020
Dec. 12, 2019
Trump’s Approval Rating Impervious to Impeachment The best indicator of Trump’s reelection prospects is holding steady — at just short of what he needs to win.
impeachment
Nov. 26, 2019
Impeachment Polls Steady, Tracking Trump Job Approval Indications that political independents were souring on impeachment were probably premature.
vision 2020
Oct. 23, 2019
Voter Enthusiasm For 2020 Is Off the Charts – Especially For Trump Fans Yes, voter turnout in 2020 could be historic. But Democrats shouldn’t assume the enthusiasm is all in their own ranks.
Trump Outperformed His Polling in 2016. Will He Again in 2020? He won as the most unpopular major-party nominee in memory. But he benefited from a desire for change that won’t favor him in 2020.
2018 midterms
Oct. 3, 2018
Why How You Feel About Trump Trumps Parties or Issues in the Fall Midterms There are signs of unusually strong positive and negative sentiment toward the president, though the battleground remains tilted toward Democrats.
The Mess in Washington Could Soon Drive Republicans Into Rebellion Against Trump If the prospects of vulnerable 2018 GOP candidates get much worse, and the chaos in D.C. doesn’t improve, an anti-Trump rebellion is a possibility.
