President's latest numbers

[CUDA]

President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term.

The new low comes as Obama enters the home stretch in his push to enact his signature initiative, an overhaul of the nation's health care system, and escalates America's involvement in the Afghanistan war.

Below are comparable ratings for other presidents since Gallup began taking presidential approval polls in 1938:

-- George W. Bush, 86 percent
-- Bill Clinton, 52 percent
-- George H.W. Bush, 71 percent
-- Ronald Reagan, 49 percent
-- Jimmy Carter, 57 percent
-- Gerald Ford, 52 percent
-- Richard Nixon, 59 percent
-- Lyndon Johnson, 74 percent
-- John Kennedy, 77 percent
-- Dwight Eisenhower, 69 percent
-- Harry Truman, 49 percent

Franklin Roosevelt had been in office more than five years before Gallup began taking presidential approval polls. During his remaining years as president, Roosevelt never fell below 48 percent.

The poll is an average of a three-day tracking of 1,529 adults taken Dec. 4-6. It has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

Things arent looking good for President D'oh-Bama

[Reservoir_Dog]

Quick question....how many of the Presidents on that list started trying to enact an overhaul of the nation's health care system within 4 months of taking office?

All American politicians know that heath care reform is the black hole of politics.
Win or lose, kuddos to Obama for at least trying.

[ruggbutt]

Quick question....how many of the Presidents on that list started trying to enact an overhaul of the nation's health care system within 4 months of taking office?

Yeah, let's qualify it....................How many of the Presidents on the list are black? That must mean that Americans disapprove cuz he's black. Not.

[Pudfark]

Ruggstir,

Obama ain't black...he is colored....black&white...

Old Pudfark sez: "ya calls a spade a spade...an a shovel a shovel" Tiger Woods and Obama is colored.

[nuf]

Obama ain't black...he is colored....black&white...

both are not colours

[Wullie]

[callmeslick]

as I watch the Obama years unfold, it is clear he is slowly marginalizing the nutcases at the extremes, and will solidify the middle by the time he has to(2012) in order to win re-election. I think his people are learning the lesson, not to depend on the Democratic Party as a whole. They will let the Pelosi/Reed Congress sink or swim on their own, and keep focusing on the middle. A bit of a risky strategy on paper, but one that may well suit the American public. The fact that Obama is clearly willing to spend his political capital down(hence,
the lower poll numbers)now, shows that he has the balls to do what needs to be done, with the confidence that he will come out looking good in the end.

[ruggbutt]

Hahahaha. That was fucking great! That's a whole pitcher of kool aid down the hatch.

[callmeslick]

time will tell, Ruggie....time will tell.
(I think I remember posting that same line about Obama, back in July of last year )