
| Poll | Date | Sample | Approve | Disapprove | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 11/28 - 12/17 | -- | 54.4 | 40.9 | +13.5 |
| GallupGallup | 12/15 - 12/17 | 1500 A | 56 | 40 | +16 |
| Rasmussen ReportsRasmussen | 12/13 - 12/15 | 1500 LV | 58 | 40 | +18 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 12/11 - 12/13 | 1034 RV | 53 | 41 | +12 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 12/10 - 12/13 | 1051 RV | 51 | 45 | +6 |
| CBS NewsCBS News | 12/9 - 12/13 | 1259 A | 56 | 36 | +20 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 12/9 - 12/13 | 1208 A | 54 | 41 | +13 |
| PPP (D)PPP (D) | 12/6 - 12/7 | 1224 RV | 50 | 45 | +5 |
| McClatchy/MaristMcClatchy | 12/1 - 12/9 | 873 RV | 55 | 42 | +13 |
| BloombergBloomberg | 12/2 - 12/5 | 999 A | 54 | 42 | +12 |
| Pew ResearchPew | 11/30 - 12/5 | 1502 A | 58 | 37 | +21 |
| IBD/TIPPIBD/TIPP | 11/28 - 12/4 | 902 A | 55 | 40 | +15 |
| GWU/BattlegroundGWU/Battleground | 11/28 - 12/1 | 1000 RV | 53 | 42 | +11 |

54.4 Approve | 40.9 Disapprove |
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| Poll | Date | Sample | Approve | Disapprove | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 11/28 - 12/17 | -- | 54.4 | 40.9 | +13.5 |
| GallupGallup | 12/15 - 12/17 | 1500 A | 56 | 40 | +16 |
| Rasmussen ReportsRasmussen | 12/13 - 12/15 | 1500 LV | 58 | 40 | +18 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 12/11 - 12/13 | 1034 RV | 53 | 41 | +12 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 12/10 - 12/13 | 1051 RV | 51 | 45 | +6 |
| CBS NewsCBS News | 12/9 - 12/13 | 1259 A | 56 | 36 | +20 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 12/9 - 12/13 | 1208 A | 54 | 41 | +13 |
| PPP (D)PPP (D) | 12/6 - 12/7 | 1224 RV | 50 | 45 | +5 |
| McClatchy/MaristMcClatchy | 12/1 - 12/9 | 873 RV | 55 | 42 | +13 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 12/2 - 12/6 | 1716 A | 53 | 42 | +11 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 12/3 - 12/5 | 977 RV | 52 | 45 | +7 |
| BloombergBloomberg | 12/2 - 12/5 | 999 A | 54 | 42 | +12 |
| Pew ResearchPew | 11/30 - 12/5 | 1502 A | 58 | 37 | +21 |
| IBD/TIPPIBD/TIPP | 11/28 - 12/4 | 902 A | 55 | 40 | +15 |
| GWU/BattlegroundGWU/Battleground | 11/28 - 12/1 | 1000 RV | 53 | 42 | +11 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 11/28 - 11/29 | 1079 RV | 52 | 45 | +7 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 11/25 - 11/29 | 1704 A | 53 | 42 | +11 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 11/19 - 11/22 | 1002 RV | 55 | 41 | +14 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 11/18 - 11/22 | 1645 A | 53 | 40 | +13 |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 11/17 - 11/20 | 1071 RV | 50 | 43 | +7 |
| CNN/ORCCNN/ORC | 11/17 - 11/20 | 1003 A | 57 | 41 | +16 |
| The AtlanticThe Atlantic | 11/16 - 11/21 | 1000 A | 56 | 40 | +16 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 11/12 - 11/15 | 1345 RV | 51 | 45 | +6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 11/11 - 11/15 | 1761 A | 50 | 44 | +6 |
| Washington PostWash Post | 11/11 - 11/14 | 1002 A | 56 | 40 | +16 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 11/4 - 11/7 | 3677 LV | 50 | 49 | +1 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 11/3 - 11/6 | 1295 LV | 52 | 47 | +5 |
| NBC News/Wall St. JrnlNBC/WSJ | 11/3 - 11/5 | 1282 LV | 53 | 44 | +9 |
| McClatchy/MaristMcClatchy | 11/1 - 11/3 | 940 LV | 51 | 45 | +6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 10/29 - 11/2 | 2708 A | 51 | 45 | +6 |
| CBS News/NY TimesCBS/NYT | 10/28 - 11/1 | 1561 A | 54 | 40 | +14 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 10/30 - 11/1 | 1233 LV | 49 | 49 | Tie |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 10/22 - 10/26 | 1209 LV | 48 | 51 | -3 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 10/22 - 10/25 | 1221 LV | 53 | 46 | +7 |
| Pew ResearchPew | 10/20 - 10/25 | 2583 A | 54 | 42 | +12 |
| USA Today/SuffolkUSA Today | 10/20 - 10/24 | 1000 LV | 54 | 41 | +13 |
| Associated Press-GfKAP-GfK | 10/20 - 10/24 | 1212 LV | 53 | 47 | +6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 10/20 - 10/24 | 1777 A | 48 | 47 | +1 |
| CNN/ORCCNN/ORC | 10/20 - 10/23 | 1017 A | 55 | 43 | +12 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 10/15 - 10/18 | 925 RV | 50 | 48 | +2 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 10/15 - 10/17 | 912 LV | 50 | 46 | +4 |
| BloombergBloomberg | 10/14 - 10/17 | 1006 LV | 51 | 44 | +7 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 10/13 - 10/17 | 1750 A | 51 | 45 | +6 |
| NBC News/Wall St. JrnlNBC/WSJ | 10/10 - 10/13 | 1000 RV | 53 | 44 | +9 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 10/10 - 10/12 | 917 LV | 57 | 41 | +16 |
| GWU/BattlegroundGWU/Battleground | 10/8 - 10/13 | 1000 LV | 53 | 44 | +9 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 10/7 - 10/8 | 971 RV | 49 | 49 | Tie |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 10/6 - 10/10 | 3567 A | 52 | 44 | +8 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 10/3 - 10/6 | 896 LV | 51 | 48 | +3 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 10/1 - 10/3 | 911 RV | 49 | 49 | Tie |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 9/29 - 10/3 | 1928 A | 51 | 45 | +6 |
| CNN/ORCCNN/ORC | 9/28 - 10/2 | 1501 A | 55 | 44 | +11 |
| CBS NewsCBS News | 9/28 - 10/2 | 1217 RV | 51 | 43 | +8 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 9/27 - 9/29 | 911 LV | 52 | 46 | +6 |
| PPP (D)PPP (D) | 9/27 - 9/28 | 933 LV | 48 | 48 | Tie |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 9/22 - 9/26 | 1705 A | 46 | 47 | -1 |
| MonmouthMonmouth | 9/22 - 9/25 | 802 RV | 53 | 43 | +10 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 9/22 - 9/24 | 948 RV | 50 | 49 | +1 |
| BloombergBloomberg | 9/21 - 9/24 | 1002 LV | 49 | 48 | +1 |
| ABC News/Wash PostABC/WP | 9/19 - 9/22 | 834 RV | 51 | 45 | +6 |
| McClatchy/MaristMcClatchy | 9/15 - 9/20 | 758 LV | 51 | 44 | +7 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 9/18 - 9/19 | 936 RV | 47 | 51 | -4 |
| NBC News/Wall St. JrnlNBC/WSJ | 9/16 - 9/19 | 1000 RV | 52 | 45 | +7 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 9/15 - 9/19 | 1749 A | 47 | 48 | -1 |
| Associated Press-GfKAP-GfK | 9/15 - 9/16 | 1251 LV | 50 | 50 | Tie |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 9/11 - 9/14 | 867 LV | 50 | 48 | +2 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 9/10 - 9/13 | 926 RV | 48 | 50 | -2 |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 9/8 - 9/13 | 960 LV | 50 | 47 | +3 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 9/8 - 9/12 | 1752 A | 48 | 48 | Tie |
| ABC News/Wash PostABC/WP | 9/5 - 9/8 | 842 RV | 55 | 42 | +13 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 9/4 - 9/6 | 955 RV | 50 | 48 | +2 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 9/1 - 9/5 | 1760 A | 47 | 48 | -1 |
| CNN/ORCCNN/ORC | 9/1 - 9/4 | 1001 A | 51 | 48 | +3 |
| GWU/BattlegroundGWU/Battleground | 8/28 - 9/1 | 1000 LV | 51 | 47 | +4 |
| IBD/TIPPIBD/TIPP | 8/26 - 9/1 | 934 A | 50 | 44 | +6 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 8/28 - 8/30 | 1011 RV | 54 | 43 | +11 |
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- How Will History Judge President Obama? - Christopher Hayes, The Nation
- The Self-Referential Presidency of Barack Obama - Carlos Lozada, Washington Post
- President Obama Did Not Fail Us--We Failed Each Other - Patricia Williams, The Nation
- Which Way Does the Arc of Obama's Moral Universe Bend? - Joan Walsh, The Nation
- I Miss Our Sane, Calm, Empathetic, Funny President Already - Katha Pollitt, Nation
- The Progressive Echo Chamber in One Roundtable - Gracy Olmstead, The Federalist
- No Matter What Obama & His Minions Say, Credibility Counts - James Kirchick, TWS
- If Russia Has Dug Into US, Obama, Not Trump, Let It Happen - Claudia Rosett, The Hill
- Beyond Hope: What Did President Obama Accomplish? - Eric Bates, The New Republic
- President Obama's Legacy That Never Was - Chris Buskirk, American Greatness
- President Obama's Lame Duck Delusions - New Hampshire Union Leader
- Obama's Second Term Was a Complete Failure - Jim Geraghty, National Review Online
- Here's What Obama Still Doesn't Get About Terrorism - Bryan Dean Wright, LA Times
- Republicans Should Learn From Obama's Mistakes - Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard
- How President Obama Changed America - Fareed Zakaria, CNN
- Assessing the Obama Legacy -- Against His Own Mileposts - Victor Davis Hanson, IBD
- What the Dakota Access Pipeline Is Really About - Rep. Kevin Cramer, Wall Street Journal
- Obama's Mixed Anti-Terror Legacy - David French, National Review
- Obama Used 'Fake News' to Sell the Iran Nuclear Deal - James Zumwalt, Breitbart
- What Trump and Obama Have in Common - Barton Swaim, Los Angeles Times
- Obama Competing for "Worst Former President" - Jed Babbin, Washington Times
- 5 Reasons Obama Will Be Seen as One of Worst Presidents - John Hawkins, Townhall
- Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
- Obama's Contempt for the White Working Class Strong as Ever - Jim Geraghty, NRO
- The Legacy Mr. Obama Imagines - Washington Times
- Dem Losses Dim Obama's Star Power - Colin Reed, Boston Herald
- Another Judicial Slap Down for President Obama - Washington Times
- A Farewell to the Comedian in Chief - Timothy Egan, New York Times
- Obama Must Save the Courts to Save U.S. From Trump - Jay Michaelson, Daily Beast
- Democratic Losses in the Age of Obama - Jay Cost, The Weekly Standard
- Obama's Legacy Won't Go Into Overtime - Washington Examiner
- The Arc of History Doesn't Always Bend Toward Justice - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
- Giving Thanks: Presidents From Washington to Obama - New York Post
- Why Obama Thinks His Legacy Will Survive Trump - Ezra Klein, Vox
- Obama's Never-Ending Lecture Tour - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
- President Obama Is Still Living in His Bubble - Investor's Business Daily
- What President Obama Got Right - Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic
- Obama: Oval Office Will Be Wake-Up Call for Trump - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
- Trump Has the Power to Rip Obama's Legacy out by Its Roots - Dylan Matthews, Vox
- All Obama's Accomplishments Are at Risk - Charles Kaiser, CNN
- Obama's Main Legacy: The Collapse of the Democratic Party - Rich Lowry, NY Post
- President Obama the Upright - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
- Should President Obama Pardon Hillary Clinton? - Stephen Clark, The Hill
- Twenty Years of a Dictatorial Democracy - James Bovard, Washington Times
- Some Who Saw Change in Obama Find It Now in Trump - Yamiche Alcindor, NY Times
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- When Will Liberals Answer for Obamacare's Failures? - David Harsanyi, The Federalist
- Obama Was Right About Republican Extremism All Along - Brian Beutler, New Republic
- More Evidence Obama Lied about Hillary's Private E-mails - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
- Barack Obama Is 2016's Biggest Winner - David French, National Review Online
- Why America's Allies Are Going Rogue - New York Post
- The Philippines Just Blew Up Obama's Asia Pivot - Eli Lake, Bloomberg
- Fallout From Obama's Feckless Foreign Policy - Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
- Will Obama Foolishly Escalate His Secret Wars? - Michael Dougherty, The Week
- The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn't About Clinton - David Dayen, TNR
- Trump Is One More Bullyboy in a World of Strongmen - David Ignatius, Washington Post
- Obama's Russia Epiphany - Wall Street Journal
- At Home & Abroad, Obama's Legacy in Tatters - Charles Krauthammer, NY Daily News
- GOP Obstruction Is Undermining the Supreme Court - Barack Obama, Huffington Post
- Narrative-Building Has Become a Political Obsession - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
- President Obama Insults Blacks -- Again - Deroy Murdock, National Review Online
- Yemen Is the Graveyard of the Obama Doctrine - Oakford & Salisbury, The Atlantic
- Obama's Terror 'Narrative' - Mark Hemingway, The Weekly Standard
- Obama: Stuck on Crazy - Richard Fernandez, PJ Media
- President Obama: A Creature of Light as World Darkens - David Ignatius, Wash Post
- Barack Obama's Ultimate Exit Interview - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Vanity Fair
- No Thank You, Obama - Stephen Moore, Washington Times
- The Reasons Behind the Obama Non-Recovery - Robert Barro, Wall Street Journal
- Obama's Denial of Terrorism Good News for Trump - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
- Obama Led the World Downward Into Chaos - Benny Avni, New York Post
- How the Obama Presidency Remade Both Parties - Paul Waldman, The Week
- Trump Concedes Obama Was Born in the U.S. - Berg, Simendinger, & Huey-Burns, RCP
- Only Hillary Clinton Will Continue The Obama Jobs Recovery - Ian Reifowitz, Huff Post
- Obama's Campaign Architect Says It's Still Clinton's to Lose - Greg Sargent, WP
- Dangers Rise as America Retreats - Dick Cheney & Liz Cheney, Wall Street Journal
- The Price of Obama's Weakness - Charles Krauthammer, National Review
- How Obama's Economic Record Stacks Up - Richard Carroll, Bloomberg
- Trump Needs to Make Clinton Own Obama's Economy - Charles Gasparino, NY Post
- Obama & Hillary's Lies Have Turned U.S. Into a Banana Republic - Jed Babbin, TAS
- Obama's For-Profit Execution - Wall Street Journal
- The Disastrous Nonintervention in Syria - Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
- Trump Fights Left-Wing Tide in Baton Rouge - Grant Bosse, New Hampshire Union Leader
- One Year On, Russia's War in Syria Not Predicted 'Quagmire' - Howard LaFranchi, CSM
- Trump Shames President Obama Into Visiting Louisiana's Victims - New York Post
- Stop Blaming Trump for Disaster Obama Made of Syria - Tom Nichols, Federalist
- The Price of Obama's Detachment - Charles Krauthammer, New York Daily News
- Regulation vs. The American People - Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
- Why Susan Rice Is Saying No, the World Is Not on Fire - Zack Beauchamp, Vox
- The Humiliation of a President - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
- Nuclear Weapons Not Just For the Worst Case Scenario - Elbridge Colby, Foreign Policy
- Obama, Not Trump, Has Built up Russian Strongman Putin - Liz Peek, FOX News
- Obama's Popularity Looks Much Like Reagan's in 1988 - Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
- Obama Will Leave His Successor a Ticking Time Bomb - Michael Dougherty, The Week
- Trump's Effective Takedown of Obama-Clinton Security Policy - Fred Barnes, TWS
- New World (Dis)Order - Arthur Goldhammer, The American Prospect
- Why Milwaukee Burns - Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
- Americans' Wages Plunge Under Obama - Keith Koffler, LifeZette
- Trump's Obama-ISIS Comment Reveals a Campaign on the Brink - Philip Bump, WP
- Obama's Worst Mistake - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times