Trump's weak poll numbers don't tell the real story
President Trump's weak approval ratings only tell half the story.
The Democrat congressional leaders are actually polling worse.
That matters more than usual now in light of the government shutdown and the adversarial political landscape.
Jake Novak | @jakejakeny
Published 12:39 PM ET Mon, 22 Jan 2018 Updated 2:48 PM ET Mon, 22 Jan 2018
As we begin President Donald Trump's second year in office, the president's approval ratings are at the lowest level for any modern president at this point in his first term at just 39 percent.
But that's only half the story.
That's because it's never enough to look only at a president's or any politician's approval ratings and overall poll numbers. You never know the full story until you see the numbers for his or her chief opponents.
As House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to remind us during the 2016 election and again during the Obamacare repeal, American politics is a "binary choice." That was exceedingly clear when historically unpopular candidate Donald Trump reaped the rewards of running against an even more unpopular candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.
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