What's the lowest job rating Bill Clinton ever got?

[cynatnite]

Earlier tonight when I watched the news, Brian Williams said that *'s numbers were at an all time low and matched Clinton's lowest rating. I thought that sounded off and just now got around to doing some research.

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

The lowest I found is a 57% approval rating on this page.

Was Clinton's ever in the 30% range with other polling? I don't recall it ever being so low during his entire presidency at all.

[fujiyama]

1. Clinton did reach 37%

at one point before the '94 midterms.

But what Williams, the stupid hack that he is, fails to point out is that Clinton (and no other president other than Nixon) was in this bad shape in their second term. I wonder if Williams mentioned that even at the height of impeachment Clinton had approval ratings as high as Bush's current DISAPPROVAL ratings (~60%). Plus, Bush's poor ratings have hovered at this area for almost a year now - it started with Schiavo and hasn't recovered - and deservedly so. Also, this isn't one poll - some show him as low as 34%.

In fact the internals are even worse. It shows many repukes as well losing a lot of confidence in him. It shows many feeling he doesn't have the ability to even govern effectively.

Bush is a failure. One poll in particular showed a clear majority feeling that history will judge his presidency that way.

Granted, most of us wouldn't need a poll to tell us that. It's pretty easy to tell looking at the way things are going. But if propagandists like Williams are going to use polls, they may as well present them in context.

[gristy]

6. here's Bush, Clinton, and Nixon

It speaks for itself

[Swamp Rat]

9. Bush: The X-Mas Tree President

:D

[eleny]

2. Looks like he compared....

Clinton's disapproval numbers to Bush's current approval numbers!

[sam sarrha]

3. when Monica didnt swallow... and stained the dress

[gatorboy]

4. Here are the 2nd term numbers:

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

[cynatnite]

5. That's the same link I posted...

It only goes back to '98.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. Here's A Link For Ya. Goes WAYYYYYY Back.

You'll see way down the page, June '93, he had 37%.

Course, it was for like a fucking day LOL

Bush is for like a fucking entire term :rofl:

http://iws.ccccd.edu/lckeith/Gallup%20Poll%20Trends%20-%20Clinton%20Job%20Approval.htm

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. Weren't Reagan's numbers real low about two years into his term?

I think about 35 - 40%

[Richard Steele]

10. I have seen some charts that placed his rating around 40% in 92...

Of course, all such ratings need to be viewed in context.

I am NOT a drooling Clinton fan; I am not even a MODERATE Clinton fan.
I consider myself a political REALIST.

And the REALITY is: Clinton served 2 terms while enduring
the most MASSIVE smear-campaign in recorded history.
That's not hyperbole, it's just a FACT.
Congress launched an 'official inquiry' into his CAT's fan club, fer Chrissakes!!


Dubya B*sh is the mirror image; He is the object of the single largest
PROPAGANDA effort that the world has ever known.
And that is also just a FACT.

And even with 95% of all media singing his praises,
with a Congress that doesn't care when he PUBLICLY ADMITS
that he considers himself above the law....
his GENERAL approval is in the toilet.

Clinton? I never liked him. He is a POLITICIAN.
But in the end, he was a DAMN GOOD politician.
And we all benefitted from his politicking to some extent.

B*sh is living proof that an infinite number of monkeys,
with an infinite amount of airtime,
cannot manage to polish a TURD.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

11. Reagan went down to 18% in April of 1981!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/07/opinion/polls/main621632.shtml

"In achieving this exceptionally high approval rate at the close of his second term in office, Reagan once again recovered from a deep mid-term slump. From a 67 percent to 18 percent margin of approval in April 1981, soon after he survived an assassination attempt, Reagan went through a period from March, 1982 through April, 1983, when his approval and disapproval were just about even. That, of course, was during the steep depression which preceded the long period of economic expansion that occurred during much of the 1980s.

By Election Day, 1984, Reagan’s popularity had rebounded to 58 percent, enough to carry 49 states, but by March of 1987, Iran-Contra had reduced it once again to a virtually even split between approval and disapproval. As late as November 1987, only 45 percent of Americans approved of Reagan’s handling of his job, while 44 percent disapproved. It was at this time polls showed more Americans, given a choice between a Republican and Democratic President, picked the Democrat. "