Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove. 

The latest figures include 35% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 43% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8. (see trends).

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The human caravan heading through Mexico to the United States has grown to 7,000, news reports say, with another caravan of 2,500 people now forming behind it in Guatemala near the Honduran border.

Voters agree with Trump’s efforts to stop the horde of Hondurans marching through Mexico from entering the United States illegally.

Voters in June said they have stronger faith in the government’s efforts to tighten border security than they did in the past, but  they still believe more can be done — especially Republicans.

With more sanctions likely to come, the Trump administration yesterday revoked the visas of 21 Saudi Arabian officials in retaliation for the October 2 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his country’s embassy in Ankara. We’ll tell you at 10:30 what voters say about sanctioning the Saudi government.

Meanwhile, Trump yesterday continued his criticism of the Federal Reserve and the chairman he appointed, Jerome Powell.  Earlier Trump had called the Federal Reserve his “biggest threat,” claiming that the central bank is raising interest rates too fast.

But it appears Americans have warmed up to the Fed, with 48% of American Adults having at least a somewhat favorable impression of the monetary agency.

As Election Day draws closer, Democrats have stepped back out to hold a small lead over Republicans on this week’s Generic Congressional Ballot.

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Republican and Democratic candidates alike are making their last-minute attempts at earning the middle class vote. But while Americans may not agree on what income qualifies as middle class, most are pretty sure they fall into that category.  Even among the country’s highest earners, only one-in-five consider themselves wealthy. 

Most voters think Democrats are likely to take charge of the House of Representatives following next month’s elections but expect them to fall short of capturing the Senate, too.

Many Americans continue to feel the impact of bullying but now are more convinced that schools rather than parents need to do something about it.

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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.