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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo
This article uses results from national polls to estimate the approval rating of President Donald Trump. The data, which is adjusted according to each poll’s quality, recency, sample size, and partisan lean, concludes that as of midnight 2/16/2019, approximately 54% of Americans disapproved of President Trump, while 41.7% approved, and less than 5% failed to have an opinion. The data is also used to compare the approval rating of Trump to the twelve previous presidents at different points throughout their term. This data is interesting because it proves that Trump is more disliked than any of the twelve presidents before him. It is also relevant, to all of us, because these results will likely have an effect on whether Trump gets re-elected in 2020 and continues to run our country.

The NBA’s Southeast Division Is Historically Awful

This article by Jared Dubin goes into detail about how awful the NBA’s Southeast division actually is. In the history of the league, a division winner has never been under .500 and it is looking like that will happen within this division this year. A very interesting thing about this is that each of the Southeast teams have a losing record even with the opportunity to get wins against the other teams in the division. Even when adjusting for schedules, they are still outscored by 3.050 points which is fifth worst in NBA history. He ends his article with the fact that maybe due to this, the NBA will change to an open seeded playoff system.