Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Friday, September 07, 2018

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove. 

The latest figures include 32% who Strongly Approve of the president is performing and 43% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11. (see trends).  

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The president was elected with the promises that he would make America great again and “drain the swamp” of entrenched bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. How good a job is he doing? We’ll tell you at 10:30 what voters think.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a hopeful for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination, said recently, “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” One-in-five Democrats agree, but a sizable majority of all voters thinks he’s wrong.

Consumer confidence appears to have plateaued, but it remains at record highs, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports Consumer Spending Update.

Forty-three percent (43%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction. This finding has been running in the 40s for most weeks this year after being in the mid- to upper 20s for much of 2016, Obama's last full year in office.

Democrats insist the fight against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is based on the issues, but Republicans and independent voters think it’s chiefly about politics.

The Roman Catholic Church has been making headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. Most Americans – including Catholics – think the church has a serious sexual predator problem.

Just 36% of voters have participated in a boycott of a product or place for political reasons, perhaps because only 12% believe such boycotts are Very Effective.

Voters overwhelmingly agree that government officials should not be allowed to freeze out a business from their community because they disagree with the political views of the business owner.

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Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask.

To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis.

Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).

Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 500 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis and crosstabs for full-week results are available for Platinum Members.