Trump Is Not Doing Well In the Polls
Mother Jones
Pew offers up the following comparison today:
Well, at least Trump is #1 at something. In related news, I was looking at Pollster yesterday and found something odd. I’ve mentioned before that although Trump’s disapproval rating has gone up since Inauguration Day, so has his approval rating. But it turns out that if you look only at live phone polls—generally considered the highest quality polls—his approval rating has actually plummeted by six points:
I know that there are differences between phone, IVR, and Internet polls, and IVR polls are generally considered pretty high quality these days. But the IVR/Internet polls show Trump’s approval up four points, while the live phone polls show his approval down six points. That’s a net ten point difference, which is huge.
It’s early days, and maybe it’s just a matter of small sample sizes or something. But I wonder what’s really going on with Trump’s approval rating?
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