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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone familiar with polling, why do Trump's approval numbers from the Economist/Yougov poll not match the actual result tables that they directly link to?

For instance, Real Clear Reporting reports 43% while the link table (and the separate topline table they also release) show 39%.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_0AkNOQp.pdf

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econtoplines_6P3FccQ.pdf

Is there some weighted table published elsewhere? If so, where is it?[/quote]

You are linking to last week's poll. October 24 - 27, 2025 - 1623 U.S. Adult Citizens
(Maybe RCP had a stale link).

43% is this week's: October 31 - November 3, 2025 - 1656 U.S. Adult Citizens
(page 19)
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_5RO6eos.pdf

Note that RCP incorrectly reports this as "1475 RV", when the39% is actually "1656 US Adult Citizens, of whom 1475 are RV"
 
Good on you for looking for the data![/quote]

No, I confused myself!

This week's poll is still 39%, per my link above!

The discrepancy is probably for weighting, adjusting the poll sample demographics to the US RV demographics.

Margin of error ± 3.4% (adjusted for weighting)
± 3.1% (Registered voters)

Learn more at https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2018/01/26/how-different-weighting-methods-work[/quote]

39% is pretty low for 10 months in. MTG may have her finger on the pulse of MAGA which doesn’t bode well for Trump’s sycophants. [/quote]

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