On December 8th the Pew Research Center released results from their poll in an article titled Low Approval of Trump’s Transition but Outlook for His Presidency Improves. It includes a link to the full report.
USA Today summarized it in an article titled Poll: Majority of Americans unhappy with Trump’s handling of transition which provided a vertical bar chart with the same data as the first one shown above. (Click on it for a larger, clearer view). There is a striking deficit (a great fall) of ~30 percent between Obamas's approval ratings and Trump's - 72% versus just 41%. Page 12 of the pdf from the Pew Report said:
“About eight-in-ten Republicans and Republican leaners (79%) say they approve of the job Trump has done explaining his policies and plans for the future to the American people; just 15% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say the same. The 64-percentage point gap between the ratings offered by Republicans and Democrats is larger than the 44-percentage point gap in early reactions to Obama measured in December 2008 and the 48-percentage point gap in reactions to Bush measured in January 2001. The current gap is driven in part by very low rating among Democrats: the 15% who approve of Trump’s early approach is lower than any rating given to a new president-elect by members of the losing party in recent elections (including the 29% of Democrats who approved of how Bush laid out his vision in January 2001).”
Presumably this gap comes as a reaction to Trump’s combative campaign. Trump can expect to hear the phrase “(Screw you) and the horse you rode in on” a lot more in the future.
The Humpty Dumpty image was adapted from one in Puck magazine back on March 12, 1913 found at the Library of Congress.
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