In the United States, presidential job approval ratings were introduced by George  Gallup in the late 1930s (probably 1937) to gauge public support for the  President of the United States during his term. An approval rating is a percentage  determined by a polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an  opinion ...
Jan 12, 2016 ... Perhaps no measure better captures the public's sentiment toward the president  than job approval. It dates back to the earliest ... Over the course of Obama's  presidency, his average approval rating among Democrats has been 80%,  compared with just 14% among Republicans. During Eisenhower's two ...
Jan 24, 2017 ... Donald Trump has started out with the lowest approval ratings of any president  since Gallup started keeping track in the 1950s, reflecting a bitter campaign that  sharply divided Americans along class, economic and racial lines.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way ... is handling his job as president?  Dwight ... Presidential Approval Ratings -- Gallup Historical Statistics and Trends  ... George H.W. Bush, July 1992, 29. Bill Clinton, June 1993, 37. George W. Bush,  October 2008, 25. Barack Obama, Aug. 2011, Oct. 2011 and Sept. 2014, 38 ...
Oct 30, 2017 ... That means Trump's number marks the lowest third-quarter approval in seven  decades of surveys. To make matters worse, it was also lower than 9 in 10  presidential quarters measured back to 1945. In fact, in the history of modern  polling, this low of an approval rating has never been seen so early in a ...
President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times.