Methodology · US Approval
US presidential approval methodology
Follows the global methodology, with the deltas below. Source spec: MKT-USA v1.1 (locked) + source-architecture v1.6 (locked).
What this is
A daily tracker of US presidential approval and disapproval. It estimates where approval currently stands from published polls; it is not a prediction.
How it differs from the global standard
- •Approval, not vote intention: the figures are approve / disapprove of the president, not party vote share.
- •Field-cluster benchmark: the estimate is judged against the full field of major aggregators rather than any single one. The field average and median are the trust benchmark. No one aggregator is treated as ground truth.
- •Tiered sourcing: sources are organised into reliability tiers, with documented eligibility and a defined fallback path, so the tracker stays current even if one source breaks.
How to read it
It reflects the polls and the chosen field of sources; it does not second-guess them. Current figures are on the live approval tracker.