Hinderaker well-knows Rasmussen should be labeled as “Oversample GOP” as a pollster. [It shows Tangerine as 54-45 net favorable. That’s… just silly.]
The non-partisan You.gov polling, otoh — is printed in The Economist magazine now… precisely because it seeks accurately balanced samples.
All reliable polling for the past two and a half weeks (since his scribbles started appearing) has Trump’s favorables below 50%. But Rasmussen is five points outside the mean.
The reality is probably that he’s just about flat unfavorable to favorable — but both figures are under 50%. That’s probably reality: evenly spit; but no mandate nor majority view.
Here’s the NON-cherry picked data, John, at right.
Do put a sock in it.