Even after Election Day, it seems, Trump's operating on minority support. Polls released since Nov. 8 offer other reminders that Trump will take office later this month with less confidence and approval from the American people than any other recent president-elect.

(Before we dig into this, a quick note about these polls. Trump and his supporters like to dismiss the accuracy of polling, thanks to some high-profile misses in states Trump won. Nationally, though, the polls were more accurate than in 2012. Gallup, the source of the data below, didn't conduct tracking polls last year, so those unwarranted critiques of national polling should exclude the firm anyway.)

After Trump won, Gallup asked Americans how they felt about the president-elect. Trump's favorability was the lowest since 1992, when Gallup first started asking the question. Each of the other three presidents-elect since then — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — were viewed favorably by at least 58 percent of the country. Bush hit that mark despite winning the electoral but not the popular vote. Trump was at 42.

It's not only because of partisanship, although Democrats were more skeptical of Trump at that point than any other partisan group was of any of the four presidents-elect. Trump also had less favorability support from members of his own party than any of the other three — and less from independents by a wide margin.

On Monday, Gallup released another poll, evaluating the public's confidence in Trump's ability to function as president. Here, too, Trump trailed the other three most recent presidents-elect. Less than half the country, thanks to low marks from independents and Democrats, thought Trump would handle an international crisis well or prevent scandals within his administration. His strongest marks were on his ability to work effectively with the Republican-controlled Congress — although even there, he trailed others who did not step into office with same-party control on Capitol Hill. (Not all questions were asked about all presidents-elect.)

Skepticism of Trump includes a mediocre perception of the work he has done since being elected. Less than half of the country approves of how his transition has gone.

His transition is viewed positively by 86 percent of Republicans, a higher percentage than Clinton got from Democrats in 1992. But Clinton's transition was viewed positively by 50 percent of Republicans; only 17 percent of Democrats think Trump's is going well.

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To some extent, Trump's low marks from Democrats (and high marks from Republicans) are a function of the deep partisan rift in the country. In this moment, as a general rule, Republicans are going to like a Republican and Democrats are going to dislike him. Trump also hasn't done much to try to win support from the other side of the aisle, which certainly doesn't help.