Pin the Headline

A small game about reading political approval curves. You see a leader’s approval rating over time with the dates stripped, and a real headline from their tenure. Can you pin it where it happened from the curve’s shape alone?

Polling series are approximate reconstructions (Gallup, Ipsos MORI, YouGov, IFOP, Datafolha) and are not for citation.

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For America’s 250th birthday, I’ve made a standalone US presidents edition supported by the John Adams Institute that features all presidents from FDR through Biden.