Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 29% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. (see trends).
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Congressional Republicans are very close to releasing an investigative memo that charges higher-ups at the FBI with politically motivated anti-Trump activities, and the number two official in the agency who resigned yesterday may be the memo’s first victim. By a 49% to 31% margin, voters think a special prosecutor should be named to investigate whether senior FBI officials handled the investigations of Trump and Hillary Clinton in a legal and unbiased fashion.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of Republicans – and 48% of all voters – think it’s likely that senior federal law enforcement officials broke the law in an effort to prevent Trump from winning the 2016 election.
The president is scheduled to give his annual State of the Union speech tonight. We’ll tell you at 10:30 how many voters plan to tune in.
Democrats hold an eight-point lead over Republicans on Rasmussen Reports’ Generic Congressional Ballot, but 17% of voters prefer a third-party candidate or are undecided.
Fifty-two percent (52%) still believe government and big business often work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors, but that’s down from a high of 70% in early 2009 just after the Wall Street meltdown.
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Thirty-nine percent (39%) of voters say the country is headed in the right direction.
Most Americans still consider themselves healthy, but many continue to pass on medical checkups and prescription drugs to save money.
Yet most voters continue to oppose Obamacare's requirement that all Americans buy or obtain health insurance. That mandate was repealed by Congress in the tax reform bill passed last month.
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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.
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