Fox News figure inflates Trump’s approval far beyond what Fox News polls show

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
April 11 at 3:32 PM

Everybody is having a grand old time mocking Fox News’ Lou Dobbs for committing one of the grandest on-air polling pratfalls of all time. In case you missed the fun, on Thursday morning President Trump celebrated his soaring approval rating by tweeting out this graphic from Dobbs’ show:

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That 58 percent approval on the economy is real -- indeed, your humble blogger previously argued that Democrats should take it seriously -- but unfortunately for Dobbs, the 55 percent number is all wrong. In the Georgetown Politics poll that Dobbs cited here, Trump’s unfavorable rating is 55 percent, and his approval is only a meager 43 percent:

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The Fox Business Network has since offered a correction of sorts, allowing that Dobbs’ report “was not entirely accurate.”

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One thing that’s striking about this whole affair is that it apparently didn’t occur to Dobbs that this number might have seemed hard to believe to begin with. Indeed, it should have immediately come across as completely wrong to anyone intimately familiar with polling by ... Fox News.

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