Obama’s First Term Approval Ratings Now Equal Clinton and Reagan

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/obamas-term-approval-ratings-equal-clinton-reagan.html

Obama’s First Term Approval Ratings Now Equal Clinton and Reagan

By: Jason Easley
October 10th, 2012


President Obama’s latest increase in his approval rating has put him on at the same level as Bill Clinton and Ronald Ronald Reagan during their first terms.

The right loves to compare President Obama to Jimmy Carter but a comparison of presidential approval ratings using Gallup’s data reveals that Obama has much more in common with Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan than he does with recent one term only presidents.

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The Republican argument that Obama is an unpopular colossal failure simply doesn’t match up with reality. The Obama that Mitt Romney is running against is a failed left wing socialist that voters are rejecting on a daily basis.

The Gallup data illustrates the reality that Obama is much closer to Bill Clinton in terms of being a personally popular centrist Democrat.

Much like Reagan and Clinton, Obama has personal likability and an appeal to the political middle.

Barack Obama looks more like a potential two term success story than a one term failure.

[Alekei_Firebird]

1. Supports my theory about the debate

It wasn't so much a case of Obama doing badly (I thought he was just mediocre) but rather, Romney just wildly succeeding absurdly low expectations.

If people thought that Obama couldn't defend his positions or his presidency, wouldn't his approval rating drop?

There's a big difference between saying that Obama lost and that Obama couldn't defend his presidency. It looks it it was more of the latter than the former, and that's a silver lining.

[babylonsister]

2. "Couldn't defend his presidency"? He's been doing that for

almost 4 years...