PRESIDENT HOLDS – AT 11:38 A.M. ET:  Rasmussen is back after the Thanksgiving holiday, and reports that the president's approval rating is essentially unchanged from before the holiday.  From Rasmussen:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove. 

The latest figures include 35% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -5.

COMMENT:  We stress, always, that a poll is a snapshot in time.  Rasmussen tends to show higher numbers for the president than other polls, but it also polls likely voters, for a more accurate result.  It is also the only daily tracker left, and we use it to observe trends, not just specific numbers.

Other polls show the president in the mid-forties, which still isn't bad.  Pretty much where Obama was, or better. 

On a related matter, the number of House seats won by the Dems this past election keeps growing, one by one, as final results and recounts are tallied.  But what does that mean?  The fact that it has taken weeks to nail down final numbers in a group of races tells us how close those races were.  Many seats were flipped to the Dems by the narrowest of margins, and can be flipped back in 2020.  It was not a particularly great victory for the Democrats, but it is being sold as a blue wave by the compliant press.

November 27,  2018