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Presidential Job Approval (Palanor Average)
Share of U.S. respondents who approve and disapprove of the sitting president’s handling of the job, daily average of published polls, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Continuation isn't available for Approve: This series averages published polls, so Palanor does not project it. Prediction-market approval contracts are shown beside it on its methodology page.
Continuation isn't available for Disapprove: This series averages published polls, so Palanor does not project it. Prediction-market approval contracts are shown beside it on its methodology page.
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.
How the public rates the sitting president’s handling of the job, as a daily average of published national polls. Each pollster counts once, its lean is estimated from its own record against the others, and the method is the same for every president.
What this chart reads
- Presidential Approval Overall: Approve (Palanor Average)as “Approve”latest 2026-10-22
- Presidential Approval Overall: Disapprove (Palanor Average)as “Disapprove”latest 2026-10-22
Sources
Presidential Approval Overall: Approve (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 Overall: Disapprove (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.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.