Every day I see a headline like these: from The Hill newspaper this morning,
Trump approval rating hits new low as Iran war squeezes economy.
“New low.” The Hill headline from yesterday read,
Trump losing support from core supporters as approval drops to record low in new polling.
“Record low.” The Tuesday headline in The Hill reads,
Nate Silver on recent polling: Trump has ‘profound problems’
On Monday, The Hill told us,
Donald Trump approval rating dipped to a new low.
“New low.” Every day a new poll. Every day a new low, or a record low. Based on this trend, I would expect to find Trump’s approval rating to be hovering between negative 300 percent and negative 400 percent.
So I looked at today’s Rasmussen Reports, daily approval poll: 46-52. Not great, a little underwater, but a record low? A new low?
In Rasmussen, Trump has stayed in a fairly narrow approval range of 44 to 48 percent since the beginning of the first government shutdown last October.
In today’s polling story, The Hill writes,
Recent polling from YouGov and The Economist has Trump’s approval rating down 4 percentage points since just before the U.S. struck Iran, falling from 39 percent in late February to 35 percent in the latest survey.
But when I look at the RCP Poll of Polls data, I see a drop of only two percent in the Economist/YouGov approval numbers in the last three surveys.
Other services, like Morning Consult, have Trump numbers steady or the Daily Mail actually improving during March.
But you are supposed to take the daily drumbeat as proof that no one approves of Trump.
