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Presidential Net Approval: Overall, Economy, Inflation (Palanor Average)
Approve minus disapprove for the sitting president, overall and on the economy and inflation, daily average of published polls, points
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Palanor approval average: published national polls, one poll per pollster, weighted by recency and sample size and adjusted for house effects and population, method registered before any result was computed (palanor.com/methodology/approval). History from the FiveThirtyEight polls archive (ABC News), CC BY 4.0; later polls from each pollster’s own release. Gallup, YouGov and Ipsos releases and polls sponsored by campaigns, parties or advocacy groups are not used. The average restarts at each inauguration. Not a forecast; Palanor does not project it. Economy and inflation questions are asked less often, so those averages use a longer window and have gaps when fewer than three pollsters have asked recently.
Net approval of the sitting president overall and on two economic questions, each a daily average of published national polls. Below zero, more respondents disapprove than approve.
What this chart reads
- Presidential Approval Overall: Net (Palanor Average)as “Overall”latest 2026-10-22
- Presidential Approval on the Economy: Net (Palanor Average)as “Economy”latest 2026-10-22
- Presidential Approval on Inflation: Net (Palanor Average)as “Inflation and cost of living”latest 2026-10-22
Sources
Presidential Approval Overall: Net (Palanor Average). Source: Palanor calculation (method approval-v2) from published national polls: the FiveThirtyEight polls archive (ABC News), CC BY 4.0, for 2017-01-20 to 2025-03-04, and each pollster's own public release since (facts only: dates, sample, population, question, topline, link). Polls fielded by Gallup, YouGov or Ipsos and polls sponsored by campaigns, parties or advocacy groups are not used. Refreshed daily.
Presidential Approval on the Economy: Net (Palanor Average). Source: Palanor calculation (method approval-v2) from published national polls: the FiveThirtyEight polls archive (ABC News), CC BY 4.0, for 2017-01-20 to 2025-03-04, and each pollster's own public release since (facts only: dates, sample, population, question, topline, link). Polls fielded by Gallup, YouGov or Ipsos and polls sponsored by campaigns, parties or advocacy groups are not used. Refreshed daily.
Presidential Approval on Inflation: Net (Palanor Average). Source: Palanor calculation (method approval-v2) from published national polls: the FiveThirtyEight polls archive (ABC News), CC BY 4.0, for 2017-01-20 to 2025-03-04, and each pollster's own public release since (facts only: dates, sample, population, question, topline, link). Polls fielded by Gallup, YouGov or Ipsos and polls sponsored by campaigns, parties or advocacy groups are not used. Refreshed daily.
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