Trump at 50% approval among Likely Voters, Oct. 29, 2018. Obama had 44% approval on same day in first term-Rasmussen Poll, 10/29/18

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10/29/18, “Daily Presidential Tracking Poll,” Rasmussen Reports

“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) 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). Regular updates are posted Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern….
 


[Oct. 29 result is available on interactive chart at link. Place cursor over Oct. 29].

Voters continue to believe strongly in the need for showing a photo ID before being allowed to vote….67% of Likely U.S. Voters think voters should be required to show photo identification such as a driver’s license before being allowed to vote.…[89%R, 61%I, 52%D)

Most Americans agree with the Trump administration’s current consideration of limiting the definition of gender strictly to biology and oppose a third gender option on legal documents in this country….

Now that Gallup has quit the field, Rasmussen Reports is the only nationally recognized public opinion firm that still tracks President Trump’s job approval ratings on a daily basis….

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….

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.”


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