President Obama’s slow ride down Gallup’s daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
Since March, Obama’s job approval rating has hovered above Carter’s, considered among the 20th century’s worst presidents, but today Obama’s punctured Carter’s dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama’s job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter’s 51 percent.
Back in 1979, Carter was far below Obama until the Iran hostage crisis, eerily being duplicated in Tehran today with Iranian protesters storming the British embassy. The early days of the crisis helped Carter’s ratings, though his failure to win the release of captured Americans, coupled with a bad economy, led to his defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980.
According to Gallup, here are the job approval numbers for other presidents at this stage of their terms, a year before the re-election campaign:
— Harry S. Truman: 54 percent.
— Dwight Eisenhower: 78 percent.
— Lyndon B. Johnson: 44 percent.
— Richard M. Nixon: 50 percent.
— Ronald Reagan: 54 percent.
— George H.W. Bush: 52 percent.
— Bill Clinton: 51 percent.
— George W. Bush: 55 percent.
What’s more, Gallup finds that Obama’s overall job approval rating so far has averaged 49 percent. Only three former presidents have had a worse average rating at this stage: Carter, Ford, and Harry S. Truman. Only Truman won re-election in an anti-Congress campaign that Obama’s team is using as a model.
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Hooray, I am surprised it took this long
Hey you libs, how is the “Hope and Change” working out for you
I still am amazed that it’s not way lower. How come 43 percent think he’s good? I’m surprised that it’s not 10%!
Remeber, Obama is part of the Chicago chicanery which means he still has time to cheat his way to a victory. G-d help the country if that happens.
Hopefully next year, he will be history.
Charlie Hall has been very quiet lately. My guess is that even he gets it that his Marxist hero is out of control.
“How come 43 percent think he’s good?”
Because they are white guilt ridden liberals who don’t want to be accused of being racist.
6. I have heard thru the grapevine that CharlieHall either changed his name or is in need of a refuah sh’laima. While I don’t know what his name is for t’hilim, I do have him in mind.
Refuah Sh’laima CharlieHall!!!
Now all the Republicans needs is a new Ronald Reagan
You must keep in mind anything that looks at all to the left will embrace Obama. Also, with roughly 50% of the nation receiving something from the big brother it is very hard for them to “bite the hand that feeds them”, even if that hand belongs to a thief stealing from others. The reality that the thief will eventually run out of victims is hard to visualize, by some.