Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Donald Trump's Incomparable Approval Ratings

What do such low numbers really mean? Plus, Jonathan Bernstein's morning links.

January 19, 2018 at 3:34 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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At the (almost) one-year mark, it's time to check in again on President Donald Trump's approval ratings.

The good news for him is that he's been rallying for the last month. After bottoming out (according to the FiveThirtyEight estimate, based on an adjusted averaging of all the polls that are out there) at a dismal 36.4 percent approval rating on Dec. 16, Trump has moved up solidly to 39.6 percent -- even slipping above 40.0 percent early this week for the first time since May.