President's job approval: every aggregator compared

What approval is

Approval is the share of adults, registered voters or likely voters (depending on the poll) who say they approve of how the president is handling the job. It is not a vote, it does not decide anything by itself, and it is not a forecast of any election. Each aggregator combines many polls with its own rules, so their numbers differ.

Why the aggregators differ

They choose different polls, weight them by pollster quality or sample size in different ways, count adults, registered voters or likely voters, and adjust for each pollster’s habitual lean. We therefore show every aggregator as a spread and compute no average of our own: the table is a range, not one true number. Each name links to the aggregator’s own page.