| Poll | Date | Sample | Right Direction | Wrong Track | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 4/26 - 5/7 | -- | 40.5 | 54.2 | -13.7 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters | 5/6 - 5/7 | 841 RV | 38 | 55 | -17 |
| Economist/YouGovEconomist | 5/5 - 5/7 | 1168 RV | 37 | 54 | -17 |
| Politico/Morning ConsultPolitico | 5/3 - 5/6 | 1990 RV | 40 | 60 | -20 |
| IBD/TIPPIBD/TIPP | 4/26 - 5/5 | 900 A | 48 | 52 | -4 |
| Rasmussen ReportsRasmussen | 4/28 - 5/2 | 2500 LV | 42 | 50 | -8 |
| Harvard-HarrisHarris | 4/30 - 5/1 | 1536 RV | 38 | 54 | -16 |

40.5 Right Direction | 54.2 Wrong Track |
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- Trump's Economy Is Strong. Obama's Was Better - Froma Harrop, Seattle Times
- Obama and the Arrogant Left Will Never Learn - Cheryl Chumley, Washington Times
- Obama, Not Trump, the True Menace to the Media - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
- Biden Parrots Lie About the 'Scandal-Free' Obama Admin - Becket Adams, Examiner
- The Walls Are Closing In On Obama - Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
- Even Dems Know Obama Policies Made America Worse - Scott Jennings, Louisville CJ
- Obama Helped Create the Dems' 'Circular Firing Squad' - Charlie Kirk, FOX News
- Trump's Commitment to Israel a Refreshing Change From Obama - Kim Guilfoyle, DC
- Buttigieg Is the Media's 'It' Candidate - Joe Concha, The Hill
- The Media's National Emergency Double Standard - Barbara Boland, Spectator USA
- Ben Rhodes: 'Trump Is Just Tearing Things Down' - Christoph Scheuermann, Der Spiegel
- Who Are the Adults Who Act and Govern as Children? - Jack Hellner, American Thinker
- Barack Obama and the Perpetual Presidency - Victor Davis Hanson, Washington Times
- Obama Is Still Electoral Kryptonite in Swing States - Rachel Stoltzfoos, The Federalist
- Barack Obama Loses Again - Tiana Lowe, Washington Examiner
- Biggest Loser of the Midterms? Barack Obama - Monica Showalter, American Thinker
- Obama Makes Midterm Push to Protect Legacy - Niall Stanage, The Hill
- Donald Trump Is a Shameless Liar - Former President Barack Obama
- Obama on Offense: Republicans 'Can't Help Themselves' - Gideon Resnick, Daily Beast
- Obama Reminds Americans of His Miserable Legacy - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
- What Trump Knows That Obama Didn't - Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard
- Dems to Obama: Where Are You? - Sam Stein, The Daily Beast
- Trump Reversed Every Failed Obama Economic Policy - Kayleigh McEnany, FOX News
- If Dems Lose Again, Obama's Legacy Is Gone Forever - Jonathan Alter, Daily Beast
- Trump & Obama Hit the Trail - for Better or Worse - Sally Persons, RealClearPolitics
- Obama Is a Self-Absorbed Partisan, Not a Senior Statesman - Karl Rove, FOX News
- Obama's Return Reminds Us How He Led to Trump - James Bovard, USA Today
- Obama Reminds Us Why Donald Trump Is President - David Harsanyi, The Federalist
- 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