Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability

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(01-13-2017, 02:35 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Gallup: Trump off to a very bad start



Trump's 48% transition approval rating in December was already the lowest for any presidential transition Gallup has measured, starting with Bill Clinton's in 1992-1993. Trump's current rating only further separates him from his predecessors -- particularly Barack Obama, who earned 83% approval for his handling of the transition process in January 2009, up from 75% in mid-December 2008.

Republicans' rating of Trump's transition has remained positive, with 87% approving in the Jan. 4-8 poll, similar to the 86% recorded last month. Very few Democrats approve, which has also been fairly steady, at 13% this month versus 17% in December. Meanwhile, his transition approval among independents has fallen from 46% to 33%.

Low Transition Approval Not a Function of Popular Vote

The last president before Trump to win the election despite losing the national popular vote was George W. Bush in 2000. However, while Bush's transition scores were lower than those of both his predecessor (Clinton) and his successor (Obama), his 61% approval rating in mid-January 2001 was nowhere near as low as Trump's is today.

Clinton received the smallest share of the U.S. popular vote (43%) of any of the past four presidents because a large segment of votes went to third-party candidate Ross Perot. Nevertheless, 62% of Americans approved of his handling of the transition process shortly after the election in November 1992, and by January 1993, his approval had risen to 68%.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/201833/approv...yndication

How quickly does he become a polished politician? Or does he ever?

That is interesting about Clinton, because my impression was that his first month or two in office was a disaster.  IIRC, he tried to allow gays to serve in the military about a decade or two before the public was ready and the firestorm ended up with "Don't ask, don't tell", which everyone hated.  Also, he went through two failed Attorney General nominees before he landed Janet Reno.