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Mar 30, 2015 8:14 PM EDTA comparison of Gallup poll numbers shows the current president out-performing his predecessor.
A direct comparison of the Gallup approval ratings between the last two U.S. presidents shows that President Obama has enjoyed significantly higher approval ratings than his predecessor, George W. Bush, at the same juncture in their time in office.
For all of 2007, Bush never saw his approval rating rise above 38 percent, and, for the first three months of that year, received an average Gallup approval rating of 34.75 percent. In January of that year, Bush notched approval ratings of 37, 34, and 36 percent in three separate surveys. In February, he registered approval ratings of 32 and 37 percent, while in March he saw ratings of 33, 35, 34 percent. For the first three months of 2007,
Obama, by comparison, Obama has averaged an approval rating of 46.33 in the first three months of 2015. He received Gallup approval ratings in January of 2015 of 46, 46, 49, and 47 percent. In February, Obama registered the approval of 46, 47, 46, and 45 percent of the voters, and in March he received respective approval ratings of 46, 47, 45, and 46 percent.
While Obama, who averaged an approval rating of 42.6 percent in 2014, has seen his numbers rise since the summer of late, Bush, by and large, watched his own continue to fall throughout much of the last two years of his time in office.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-31/obama-approval-ratings-for-7th-year-top-george-w-bush-s-so-far
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Obama Approval Ratings For 7th Year Top George W. Bush's So Far (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2015
OP
So, you're saying Gallup is wrong and Obama's approval rating are NOT better...
DonViejo
Mar 2015
#3
So, you're saying Gallup is wrong and Obama's approval rating are NOT better...
DonViejo
Mar 2015
#4
As it should be. Bush's poll numbers reflected his affiliation with Darth Cheney & PNAC!
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2015
#7
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Just another Bullshit Gallup
garbage poll. Land Line phone,get real.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)3. So, you're saying Gallup is wrong and Obama's approval rating are NOT better...
than Bush's?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)8. No,Mr. Obama's numbers are much better than
Gallup reports. Gallup is a Wing Nut polling group,if one ever worked for Gallup and understood the syntax and the the phraseology of the questions used in phone survey's,you knew what the predetermined outcome will be. Do remember how the so called push polls tried there damnest to keep Bush and Cheney relevant. It is all about the truth and methods used.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)2. Did they also take a poll on the wetness of water? n/t
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)4. So, you're saying Gallup is wrong and Obama's approval rating are NOT better...
than Bush's?
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)5. No. I'm saying they polled something that's ridiculously obvious.
You don't need to do a poll to know water is wet, nor is it any kind of surprise that Obama would out-poll Bush. That's in "to damn with faint praise" territory.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)6. thank you for the clarification. eom
Tarheel_Dem
(31,236 posts)7. As it should be. Bush's poll numbers reflected his affiliation with Darth Cheney & PNAC!