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I did some digging to try to figure out the poll methodology, because I was planning to claim something to the effect of "but if the poll doesn't have a category for democratic backsliding, then it will be skewed to attribute the opinions to other causes instead."
That's what I would have written, except I found the actual poll results and it turns out it does have such a category. That's the good news for Reuters' credibility re: their headline.
The bad news is that "economy, unemployment and jobs" only barely edges out "political extremism or threats to democracy" among all Americans by a single measly percentage point (i.e. within the poll margin of error -- a statistical tie), and even then only because Republicans unsurprisingly don't care about the latter. Meanwhile, political extremism is the bigger factor among both Democrats and independents (i.e. everybody else).
By implying that the entire reason for the approval rating change is the economy and failing to mention political extremism at all, this Reuters article is blatant spin and erasure of that factor. The Reuters/Ipsos polling people might be "legit," but the reporting of it is absolutely normalizing and manufacturing consent for Trump's nascent dictatorship.
Without knowing more about their usual procedures regarding what they state is the "biggest" issue reported by those they've polled and whether they are writing the article how they normally would I cannot agree whether they are intentionally trying to normalize anything, so we'll have to agree to disagree.