If you don’t follow political polls for a living, first, congratulations on having a relevant and productive job. Second, I should probably point out that Republicans tend to outperform in Rasmussen polls compared with how they do in others. Whether you attribute the skew to Rasmussen or to everyone else, I will leave that to you.
Having said that, it’s rather astonishing that Donald Trump could be near 50 percent approval in any poll considering the nonstop pounding he takes from the media. Rasmussen actually has him this morning at 49 up and 50 down, so Trump went ahead and rounded up with this tweet:
Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50%, which is higher than Cheatin’ Obama at the same time in his Administration.