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What's up with Truman, Kennedy and all those high numbers?
Even if we assume Truman achieved 100% approval in the first 100 days, that'd mean his initial approval was 16%.
I am going to be a bit skeptical of this.
Mainly because I know that Kennedy was elected and not grandfathered in like truman and there's no way he was only elected with only 28%
Net approval at a point in time is the percentage of voters who approve minus the percentage of voters who disapprove, it's not a delta from an earlier reading.
For net approval to be negative, more people must disapprove then approve.
+84 doesn't mean an increase of 84 percentage points, it means 92% approval, 8% disapproval.
I don't think this is initial approval minus approval 100 days in, I think it's approval 100 days in minus disapproval 100 days in.
Is it possible that it's % of variation compared to what it was on day 1? So if approval was 50% and on day 100 it's 60% that's +20 (20% of 50 = 10, 50 + 10 = 60)?