Or not — that was just the headline of the Politico article. A 46% approval rating is not exactly heavenly.
For a little perspective, go back to a poll taken on Nov 10th 2008 which shows Obama with a 70% favorable rating.
Yeah, I know polls still make me squeamish too. But there’s still some interesting stuff in there which either shows how out of touch we are — or how out of touch Americans are.
Forty-six percent of voters now have a very favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of the president-elect. Twelve percent have a somewhat unfavorable opinion and 34 percent have a very unfavorable opinion of him.
The out-of-touch-stuff:
"About half say Donald Trump's presidential transition is as organized or more organized than previous administrations, whereas about one in three describe it as less organized than past transitions,' said Dropp, though he noted that “many of the initial transition picks including Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions are still largely unknown to Americans."
and
More than half of the respondents had never heard of, or had no opinion, about Trump’s chief of staff Priebus, chief strategist Bannon or Sessions, the Alabama senator who is Trump’s pick for attorney general.