Were Clinton's numbers ever this bad?

[TheBlob]

I know when Clinton left office his approval was in the low 60's, at the height of impeachment he was in the mid 70's.

Anyone know the last time we had a President with such low approval ratings?

[wyldwolf]

1. Worse...

48% one year before re-election.

[Langis]

3. What was going on around that time?

To make his numbers so bad?

[TheBlob]

4. That's not worse than some of these mid-40's ratings

for Bush that have been abundant the past week or so.

[wyldwolf]

6. That's so...

..but I think most people put more stock in Gallup. I was referring to that.

[Zero Gravitas]

13. Yes, but

they were trending up at the time. Smirk's are going steeply down.

[Langis]

2. I don't think they were ever this bad

I wasn't into politics back then, but I'm almost positive.

[59millionmorons]

5. Yes

Actually Gallup had Clinton last approval at the high sixty's. I will find that for you. Clinton was lower at times. Each time the crazy wingers put out false stories (whitewater, vince foster etc) and the media ran with them his numbers would slip. But the GOP went to far with impeachment and the GOP paid for it and Clinton left office with the highest approval rating of any President in history.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

8. And rightly so

Damn, I miss having a real President-and one that actually cared about people like us.

[Skinner]

7. I'm pretty sure his numbers were much worse.

The first two years of his presidency were really grim. I think he may have fallen into the 30s at one point.

None of the Democratic candidates wanted to be seen with Clinton during the 94 campaign. All of the GOP ads had the faces of Democrats morphing into the face of Clinton. He was really unpopular.

[FlaGranny]

15. I believe that Clinton

didn't "know the ropes" in Washington during his first term and tried to too quickly push his agenda. He stepped on some toes that caused a lot of backlash and the "news people" were all over his case.

[Nederland]

9. Yes

http://www.pollingreport.com/clinton1.htm

[West Coast Democrat]

18. Those are not Job Approval Numbers, Nederland

those are overall favorability numbers. President Clinton always had higher job approval numbers than favorability numbers.

http://www.pollingreport.com/clinton-.htm

Chimpy has the opposite problem. His current job disapproval numbers are actually alarmingly high. 47% on the Gallup Poll is pretty awful.

[JaneQPublic]

19. Those are Favorability ratings, not Job Approval ratings

Here's his job approval ratings:

http://www.pollingreport.com/clinton-.htm

Looking at the Gallup (that's the one that seems to be used most for historical purposes), I see nothing but numbers in the 50's and 60's.

For clarification, Favorability is simply the popularity numbers, not how well you think the president is doing the job. After the impeachment proceedings, the media made a big issue of the fact that, sure, Clinton's Job Approval ratings were staying high, but his Favorability ratings -- whether people liked him as a person -- were taking a dive.

[sventvkg]

10. DAMN I miss Clinton..I'm embarrassed to be American with Smirky leading

:(

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Clinton's approval rating sunk as low as 38% at one point in 94

Oddly enough it went up during the impeachment proeedings

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Cuz The Economy Was Smoking

NT

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. Reagan's numbers were lower at this time in his 1st term

13 months is a very long time in politics.

[59millionmorons]

16. the difference is

Reagan and Clinton were rising in the polls at this time, Bush is sinking.

[Timefortruth]

17. Look at this

Clinton had worse numbers at times but Chimp sets a record for the rate of drop. People don't like Chimp but when they are afraid they support him anyway.

[CMT]

20. he was in the 30's

at one point in 1994 the year we lost congress. So bad numbers don't necessarily mean that a president will be defeated. We have lots of hard work to do to win in 2004.

[West Coast Democrat]

21. If not for 9-11, Chimpy's #s would have been in the 30s..............

by midterm election time. In my opinion, 9-11 delayed his inevitable fall.