Job Approval
Text only: a pollster and a citizen talk past each other about presidential job approval.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-09-29-job-approval/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Pollster: "What do you think of the job the president is doing?"
Citizen: "It's not ideal. I think he'd be better at a different job."
Pollster: "No, you misunderstand — I mean, do you approve of the president's job performance?"
Citizen: "No, it's not a performance! That's really his job!"