THE NORMAL PRESIDENCY OF DONALD TRUMP. There’s something interesting going on in President Donald Trump’s job approval rating. The constant attacks and negativity of the Democratic opposition, plus relentlessly negative media coverage, don’t seem to be having much effect. Trump’s approval, at this early point in his second term, is remarkably similar to the two other presidents, one Democrat and one Republican, who have served two terms in the past quarter century.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls keeps a running comparison between the polling of Trump and former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush at the same point in their second terms. Right now, Trump’s job approval stands at 46.6%. On this day in 2013, Obama’s job approval rating was…46.6%. And at this moment in 2005, Bush’s
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