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Trump Third Year Sets New Standard for Party Polarization
« on: January 21, 2020, 02:45:38 pm »
https://news.gallup.com/poll/283910/trump-third-year-sets-new-standard-party-polarization.aspx

JANUARY 21, 2020
Trump Third Year Sets New Standard for Party Polarization
BY JEFFREY M. JONES

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Eighty-two percentage points separated Republicans' (89%) and Democrats' (7%) average job approval ratings of President Donald Trump during his third year in office. This is the largest degree of political polarization in any presidential year measured by Gallup, surpassing the 79-point party gap in Trump's second year in office.

Trump's first year also ranks among the 10 most polarized years, along with the last five years of Barack Obama's presidency and several of George W. Bush's years in office.

The fact that the 10 most polarized years have all occurred in the past 16 years -- affecting both Democratic and Republican presidents -- underscores how politically polarized the nation has become. There have always been partisan gaps in ratings of president, just not to the degree seen over the past two decades.

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