Pres. Obama ends first year with 57 percent approval average

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/76605-pres-obama-ends-first-year-with-57-percent-approval-average


Pres. Obama ends first year with 57 percent approval average
By Tony Romm - 01/18/10 10:53 AM ET


President Barack Obama will round out his first year in office with an average 57 percent approval rating, according to Gallup.

Interestingly enough, that would place Obama nearly last on a ranking of former presidents' first-year job approval averages, pollsters noted.

Former Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush all ended their first year in office with much higher job approval totals. Only former President Ronald Reagan tied Obama, also scoring 57 percent, while former President Bill Clinton scored far below Obama, at 49 percent.

[Fire1]

1. Not bad at all considering what he's up against. n/t

[tridim]

6. And also not bad considering the racist element in the South

They're skewing his polls by at least -10% nationally.

[Tippy]

10. You got that right......Lot of white sheets being sold in the south

[NatBurner]

12. in the north east and west too

i mean, let's be real here

[tridim]

15. True, but I've seen polls that ignore the south..

and Obama's approval numbers are in the low 70's.

[Richardo]

2. So W went from 90%+ after 9/11 to less than 70% four months later?

And they talk about Obama's single digit decline as some indicator of failure. :eyes:

[karynnj]

4. No - the number is the average of all the polls over the year

In Bush's case, his number was pulled up by the incredibly high numbers for those last 3 months. Otherwise, Before that, the pattern looked like he could end up being with Clinton or lower.

[Richardo]

5. Thanks.

Did not read the article, as you may have guessed. :)

[Jennicut]

3. Obama is facing an even worse economy then Reagan. And politics is very

polarized right now.

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. I'm adjusting my grading scale for midterms....

...to take this into account.

Obama is a failure. (Hey, that's what I keep hearing, even on this board, or especially on this board.)
Failure is 57%
Passing grades begin at 58%.

The students will be thrilled. They just got a 13% curve.

[bvar22]

8. Yes....and I'm one of those.

I always give Obama and The Democrats the HIGHEST marks possible in any public poll.

Privately (and on DU) I am BEYOND disgusted, am changing my party affiliation to "Independent", and will actively support a "LIBERAL" challenger in 2012.

I suspect I am not the only disgusted Democrat who STILL gives Obama HIGH marks in polls.
This 57% is very weak.

"I did not run on a Public Option."

[DFLforever]

14. Admit it Bvaar. If this were 1933

you'd be supporting Huey Long and castigating FDR as tool a of the bankers and industrialists. I sense a Southern populist flame in your
heart.

[Peacetrain]

9. Seriously he started at 53% after his election last November

And to have had to handle everything he has had to deal with in the last year.. I think that is off the charts good.

[Spazito]

11. OH NO! Exploding heads alert and not just at FR!

Thanks for the good news, those ARE pretty damn good numbers, imo.

[Drunken Irishman]

13. OH GOD! HE IS REAGAN!

How the hell was Kennedy so popular?

[Cha]

16. Not bad considering

everything that's out working against Progress.