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The Presidential Approval Pattern

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Presidential approval typically begins high at the start of a term and declines over time, moving with domestic and international events.

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Rally moments push approval up; long grinds pull it down — the decay repeats across presidencies.

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The pattern is a tendency across terms, not a law for any one of them.