| Poll | Date | Sample | Right Direction | Wrong Track | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 8/22 - 9/6 | -- | 39.2 | 53.7 | -14.5 |
| Rasmussen ReportsRasmussen | 9/2 - 9/6 | 2500 LV | 42 | 53 | -11 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 9/2 - 9/4 | 1254 RV | 39 | 54 | -15 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 8/29 - 9/4 | 2012 RV | 34 | 55 | -21 |
| IBD/TIPPIBD/TIPP | 8/23 - 8/30 | 902 A | 47 | 53 | -6 |
| USA Today/SuffolkUSA Today | 8/23 - 8/28 | 1000 RV | 34 | 55 | -21 |
| Harvard-HarrisHarvard-Harris | 8/22 - 8/23 | 1330 RV | 39 | 52 | -13 |

39.2 Right Direction | 53.7 Wrong Track |
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- Obama's Return May Energize Republicans More Than Dems - Mark Davis, Townhall
- Obama Comes Out of Retirement With Same Tired Message - Alfredo Ortiz, RCP
- Obama's Back, Loosening Trump's Stranglehold on News - Charles Blow, NY Times
- Obama's Back On the Trail, and This Time It's Personal - Robin Abcarian, LA Times
- Obama Hits the Midterm Campaign Trail--and Trump - Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
- Obama Will Hurt, Not Help, Democrats in Midterms - Julie Kelly, American Greatness
- Barack Obama Is Just What the Democrats Need - Julian Zelizer, CNN
- Trump a Racist for Policy Obama & Bush Followed Too? - Eddie Scarry, Examiner
- Some Dems Say 'No Thanks' to Obama's Help in Midterms - Bolton & Parnes, The Hill
- The World As It Wasn't - James Rosen, National Review
- Trump Isn't Wrecking Obama's Regulatory Legacy - Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg
- Obama Is the Gift That Keeps Giving to Republicans - Adriana Cohen, Boston Herald
- Did Obama, Brennan and Clinton Illegally Collude to Take Trump Down? - IBD
- If Trump Is an Agent of Putin, What Was Obama? - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
- On Russia, Look at Trump's Actions - and Obama's - Mikheil Saakashvili, The Federalist
- Obama Still Lecturing, Still Clueless - Richmond Times-Dispatch
- The Nelson Mandela Lecture - Barack Obama, The New Yorker
- Obama's Legacy Is Still Damaging the Democrats - F.H. Buckley, New York Post
- Obama to Dems: 'You Are Right to Be Concerned' - Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
- Obama Remains AWOL for Democrats - Brent Budowsky, The Hill
- Barack Obama, Where Are You? - Gabriel DeBenedetti, New York Magazine
- The Sad Legacy of the Obama Border Orphans - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
- Why Obama Is Worried About 'Truth Decay' - Rich & Kavanagh, CNN
- Obama Was the Reason Clinton Wasn't Charged - Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Show
- Stick to Netflix, Barack - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
- Ben Rhodes and the World As It Was - Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner
- Inside the White House During the Syrian 'Red Line' Crisis - Ben Rhodes, The Atlantic
- Obama's Revealing Reaction to Trump's Victory - Matthew Continetti, Free Beacon
- Obama Was Right: He Came Too Early - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
- The Wipeout of Obama's Legacy - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
- The Fragile Legacy of Barack Obama - Elaine Kamarck, Brookings
- Trump Threatens to Repeat Obama Mistakes in Syria - Marc Thiessen, Washington Post
- Can Obama Rescue the Democrats? - James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
- A Domestic Budget to Make Barack Obama Proud - Russell Berman, The Atlantic
- Trump Scraps Obama Rule That Turned Schools Into 'War Zones' - Paul Sperry, NYP
- No Drama Obama vs. Trump 'Chaos' - Larry Elder, Investor's Business Daily
- Think the Obama Admin Wasn't Corrupt? Think Again - Investor's Business Daily
- Did Obama Tutor Hillary In Electoral Conspiracy 101? - Investor's Business Daily
- How Obama Got Schooled by a Broken System - Julian Zelizer, The Daily Beast
- The Post-American President Returns to Center Stage - Brandon Weichert, American Greatness
- The Missing Obama Millions - McElwee, Rhodes, Schaffner & Fraga, New York Times
- Obama's Legacy: He Sparked Hope--and Got Blindsided - Julian Zelizer, CNN
- Did Lax Obama-Era School-Discipline Policies Enable Shooter? - David French, NRO
- Don't Rehabilitate Obama on Russia - Haddad & Polyakova, The American Interest
- Behind Fla. Rampage: Obama's School-Leniency Policy - Paul Sperry, RCInvestigations
- Obama Delivers Speech in Soviet-style Vacuum - Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald
- Another Way Obama's Spies Exploited the Anti-Trump Dossier - Paul Sperry, NY Post
- Obama Knew Foreign Entities Were Interfering, Did Nothing - Tammy Bruce, Washington Times
- The Unexpected Obama-Trump Convergence on Russia - David Graham, The Atlantic
- The Obamas' New Paintings Are a Milestone - Rachelle Hampton, Slate
- Black Panther Is for Film What Obama Was for Presidency - Issac Bailey, CNN
- GOP Floats New Theory: Blame Obama! - Heather Digby Parton, Salon
- Completely Missing the Point on Lisa Page's Obama Text - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
- Obamanomics Is Dead and Trump Killed It - Brandon Weichert, American Greatness
- New Page-Strzok FBI Texts: Obama Wants 'to Know Everything' - Jake Gibson, Fox News
- Trump Rides Economic Momentum From Obama - Jesse Jackson, Chicago Sun-Times
- The Final Hagiography of the Obama Team - Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard
- Had Media Done Its Job, Obama Wouldn't Have Been Elected - Larry Elder, Townhall
- Had Media Done Its Job, Obama Wouldn't Have Been Elected - Larry Elder, Investor's Business Daily
- Dems Respond With Echoes of Obama - Matthew Sheffield, Salon
- Trump Hasn't Destroyed Obama's Legacy, But Proved Its Import - Jon Chait, NY Mag
- Democrats Just Got Rolled. They Can Blame Obama. - Marc Thiessen, Washington Post
- How Trump Will Reverse Obama's Failed Foreign Policy - Mike Gonzalez, Nat'l Interest
- Under the New Trump Standard, Why Wasn't Obama Impeached? - Larry Elder, IBD
- Obama Is in His Element on Letterman's New Netflix Series - Ian Crouch, New Yorker
- Goodbye, Boring Candidates -- Hello, Boring Hysteria - Heather Wilhelm, Nat'l Review
- Trump Is Making Obama Great Again - Astead W. Herndon, Boston Globe
- When Will Obama & Supporters Cry 'Uncle?' - Wayne Allyn Root, Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Trump Can Learn From Obama's Appalling Errors on Iran - Washington Examiner
- Liberal Humiliation: Trump vs. Obama on Iran - Roger Simon, PJ Media
- The Prince and the Community Organizer - George Neumayr, The American Spectator
- Did Obama Go Wobbly on Hezbollah? - Peter Brookes, Boston Herald
- The Jerusalem Conflict Is All Obama's Fault - Alan Dershowitz, Washington Examiner
- Obama's Alternative Facts on the Iran Nuclear Deal - Eli Lake, Bloomberg
- Now, This Is Presidential Obstruction - Jonathan Tobin, New York Post
- A Collusion Bombshell, But Not on Target - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
- How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth - Matt Bruenig & Ryan Cooper, Jacobin
- The Strange, New-Age Obama Reunion - Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
- A Post-Obama Democratic Party in Search of Itself - Robert Draper, NY Times Magazine
- Gold Star Mom: I Felt Disrespected by Obama - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
- We Still Need the Hopey-Changey Stuff - Yascha Mounk, Slate
- Without Saying 'Trump,' Bush & Obama Deliver Implicit Rebukes - Peter Baker, NYT
- Obama Admin, Clinton Covered Up Their Deep, Corrupt Ties To Russia - IBD
- The Return of Obama - David Catanese, US News & World Report
- Trump Doesn't Owe Obama Anything - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
- The Flimsiness of Obama's 'Legacy' - Monica Showalter, American Thinker
- Donald Trump: Anti-Obama & Chieftain of Spite - Charles Blow, New York Times
- Time for Obama to Join the Resistance Full Time - Charles Pierce, Esquire
- Trump Repeats Obama's Mistakes With Turkey - Eli Lake, Bloomberg
- Trump Takes Wrecking Ball to Two Obama Legacies - Todd, Murray, & Dann, NBC News
- Obamagate Will Make Watergate Look Like a Misdemeanor - Wayne Allyn Root, LVRJ
- Russia Didn't Hack the Election. Obama Did - Daniel Flynn, The American Spectator
- A Radical Rebuke of Obama's Foreign Policy Legacy - Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
- Did Obama Know About Comey's Surveillance? - James Freeman, Wall Street Journal
- The Cruelty of Barack Obama - William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
- Obama: The Former President Who Won't Go Away - James Antle, Washington Examiner
- Obama Shows Trump How to Be Presidential - Jill Filipovic, CNN
- Why Isn't Congress Probing Obama's Unprecedented Spying? - Ginni Thomas, DC
- Obama's Motives - Noah Rothman, Commentary
- President Obama, Where Are You? - Caroline Randall Williams, New York Times