President Donald Trump’s approval rating among voters with a high school education or less has fallen to an all-time low, according to new polling, raising fresh questions about whether the president is losing ground with one of his most reliable political constituencies.
The latest figures from Echelon Insights show Trump is now firmly underwater with this group—marking a dramatic reversal from the early months of his second term, when he enjoyed strong positive ratings among less-educated voters.
Not necessarily saying you’re wrong… Just pointing out your explanation isn’t making direct comparisons.
This chart is “net”, which is “approves minus dissaproves”, and it’s important that you can respond with “neither approves or didsaproves”.
So you can have a lower approval rating (32) with a higher NET approval rating, if the “neither approves or dissaproves” chunk is larger.
If a higher approval rating results in a lower net (which is what these numbers are), it generally means more “fence sitters” have definitively shifted to flat-out dissaproval.
So, haven’t looked at the data, just noticing your argument seems predicated on a partial understanding of the specific metric this reports on.
I will, they’re dead ass wrong and it’s super frustrating because I see this shit everywhere and it comes from a combination of the facts that a) Americans don’t get enough education in how to interpret statistics and b) a lot of news media will just cherry pick whatever statistical results they want to tell whatever story they want (e.g. want to make people think the socialist revolution will happen tomorrow, look at what women under 40 think; want to make everyone think Americans are heartless psychopaths, ask independents how Trump is doing on immigration; want to think absolutely nothing has changed, look at GOP approval numbers; etc.)
Look at a bunch of different polls and the directions they’ve all moved while reading them carefully to see precisely what they’re measuring and how and it is absolutely undeniable that most Americans hate our president
The headline clearly states approval rating, not the trend of the delta between approve-disapprove.
You can actually have more or less of both, and have that trend go either way. It’s not a good metric.
The net result is the same we’ve seen so many times before, that in the American population about a third still approve of Trump!! In this case it’s even a little higher than the it was a couple of months ago.
The headline states “all time low”, which is a trend, which this chart shows
Oh yeah you’re right about the headline. I hyperfixated on the graph that was posted which was showing net. My b.