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By David Lauter
... The percentage who approve of Trumps job performance is now below 40% in the two major polling averages, done by Real Clear Politics and the Huffington Post. Hes at the lowest level of his presidency so far and far lower than any previous president at this point.
Surveys in the last week range from Gallups tracking poll, which shows 37% of Americans approving of Trumps job performance and 56% disapproving, to a Rasmussen poll of people deemed likely to vote in 2018 that has 44%-56%. Surveys by all the major polling organizations show roughly the same downward trend in Trumps approval ...
In polling by SurveyMonkey, which collects very large samples that allow detailed analysis, Trumps support has dropped 10 percentage points since late April among white voters who did not go to college a group that was key to his victory last fall ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-polls-20170522-htmlstory.html
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