Tracking Trump - The President's approval for February 2nd:
Bottom Line: This is one of two weekly tracking stories to get a reality/temperature check with regard to what's really going on with public opinion of the President. In this series we'll track the high point, low point and current ratings...
Trump's lowest ratings: 37% approval and 59% disapprove: -22% (8/4/17)
Trump highest approval ratings were an average 45% approval and 43% disapproval +2% (1/27/17):
Trump's current ratings: 42% approval and 53% disapproval: -11%
President Trump's approval rating just took its biggest one week jump since September. With a 4% one-week positive move in this net approval rating - it's evident that the positive reception in Davos, great economic news, rocking stock market and solid State of the Union address (though that's barely accounted for in the samples used this week) has made a meaningful impact in the collective view of the president. But that's still not the entire story...
The divide between the most informed and engaged compared to the least informed and least engaged remains a major and growing story.
As I've been tracking for several months now...The more likely someone is to vote, the higher the President's overall approval rating.
With adult only samples his rating over the past week averaged: 40%
Registered voters: 44%
Likely voters: 44%
That's a significant story - especially as we're entering the mid-term election cycle. The more informed/engaged you are politically, the more likely you are to approve of the president's performance and now the divide between the average adult and only somewhat engaged is significant. It also demonstrates that the most informed adults weren't persuaded by the tale tales in Wolff's book, weren't moved by s-hole gate and didn't blame President Trump for the partial government shutdown. What's more is that there's a runway for more positively as the STOU is factored into the polling along with tax cuts hitting paychecks.
The range was Monmouth – 4% to Gallup -20%