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applegrove

(118,687 posts) Mon Dec 29, 2014, 11:53 PM Dec 2014

Obama Has Tied Reagan In Public Opinion Polls

Obama Has Tied Reagan In Public Opinion Polls

by John A. Tures at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-a-tures/obama-has-tied-reagan-in-public-opinion-polls_b_6383892.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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But how does Obama compare to other presidents who spent their sixth Christmas in the White House? Gallup polls showed President George W. Bush at 37 percent at this time in his presidency. Only Harry Truman (33 percent) was lower (for December 1950). Fellow Texan Lyndon B. Johnson was at 44 percent after his party suffered setbacks in the 1966 election. Ronald Reagan polled at 48 percent in December of 1986. The best in the survey include Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (57 percent), despite his own party's struggle in the 1958 election, and Bill Clinton, who had a whopping 67 percent despite impeachment woes.

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Obama Has Tied Reagan In Public Opinion Polls (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2014 OP

Say it aint so, this guy from Kenya who gave us the awful Obamacare with the death panel, Thinkingabout Dec 2014 #1

And lots of what he has done is stuff that the GOP support too like applegrove Dec 2014 #2

It is interesting how unpopular he was one month ago when it was 24/7 ISIS, ebola, Benghazi, doc03 Dec 2014 #3

They can swing these stories any way they want, any day they want. delrem Dec 2014 #4

Reagan would have been at ~15% had the modern Internet existed back then. tridim Dec 2014 #5

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

1. Say it aint so, this guy from Kenya who gave us the awful Obamacare with the death panel,

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 12:08 AM

Dec 2014

Brought the auto industry back from sure death, (these are only a few) and now he his approval record is the same as Reagan. WOW, he is something huh.

applegrove

(118,687 posts)

2. And lots of what he has done is stuff that the GOP support too like

Reply to Thinkingabout (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 12:12 AM

Dec 2014

reducing the annual debt, great stock market, Obamacare (which is a windfall for private health corporations), putting Putin in his place (wait, maybe this last thing is upsetting to the GOP who seemed enamorded of him 8 months ago).

doc03

(35,348 posts)

3. It is interesting how unpopular he was one month ago when it was 24/7 ISIS, ebola, Benghazi,

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 12:13 AM

Dec 2014

IRS, the bad economy etc. The day after the election all that shit stopped and now he is up with the great St. Ronnie.That's the LIBRUL
media for ya.

delrem

(9,688 posts)

4. They can swing these stories any way they want, any day they want.

Reply to doc03 (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 01:00 AM

Dec 2014

If they don't have a number, they can invent one. If they don't have a fact, they can invent one.

I despised Ronald Reagan at the the time of his presidency. I thought it was shameful that this B-grade actor was playing this role and that was good enough for US democracy. All the polls and pundits in the world won't change my mind on that.

tridim

(45,358 posts)

5. Reagan would have been at ~15% had the modern Internet existed back then.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 01:17 PM

Dec 2014

Very few people had a public soapbox to speak about people negatively back in those days.

Today, it's non-stop 24/7 negativity, yet Obama is still popular.

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