I regularly (try to) check these kinds of news, to get a feeling for where we are at (with accountability, or whatever you might term it.) But whenever I try t

I regularly (try to) check these kinds of news, to get a feeling for where we are at (with accountability, or whatever you might term it.) But whenever I try to read and parse one of these 'what is the current level of popularity of what is happening?', I invariably get an article like this one. The article might be OK, and it might be my reading comprehension skills that fail me. But the gist I get from these articles, almost always sum up to two separate pieces of information I cannot reconcile or get to match/fit with each other. (1) the copy/main text/body: "XYZ is ever even more unpopular than ever / lowest so far / new record". (2) graphs and numbers: "Disapprove 55%, Approve 45%". then I shake my head and wonder what is going on. To restate, reiterate and clarify: - from all other signal sources; both the article itself, and my general day-to-day environment, my impression is a clear negative signal of things not going well and not being well received (*). - but whenever I look up this current-approval-rating stuff, I keep seeing numbers akin to 45-55 ??? Which is not what I would expect as the reaction and result of an incompetent führer-wannabe. Can anyone explain to me, why grand negative headlines appear to translate into "oh no, 47% dropped to 45%". Seriously wondering, somewhere in Europe not yet on fire.