Once America is great again do you think the media will raise the favorable rating to perhaps 55?.......
To the extent I pay attention to polls, when GHWB’s number reached 92% it was:
1) A fleeting moment in time at the start of Gulf War I ie an outlier
2) A fright for the DC press who never want to see a GOP president with that sort of approval and were determined not to let it happen again.
Bush 43, of course, was subjected to the self-fulfilling prophecy of ‘your polls are down’ in every presser which was a cue for sheep to give him a negative rating.
Clinton, on the other hand, was obsessed with inflating his poll numbers to make him feel better about his revolting sexual addiction. His primary concern after the Lewinsky news broke was not his wife or daughter or even his colleagues but merely his poll numbers (as Dick Morris chronicled).
The media will set the number and manipulate it any way they like. I can only hope that Trump ignores the polls but, more importantly, ignores the people telling him the polls matter.