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. "
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