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Originally Posted by SpiritWarrior
Normal and actually quite good as far as political polls of presidencies go.
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Normal? True. Only Richard Nixon avoided a 6th quarter slide in his approval ratings.
Good? Hardly. According to the Gallup poll figures (which were at 48% as of July 12th) only Carter, Reagan, Ford and probably Clinton had lower approval ratings in the post-Truman era at this point in their presidencies. All of them, like Obama, were at sub-50%. After that, there's a huge gap to the next lowest who was Nixon at 58%. All of the others had higher ratings at that point in time.
The upside? At least he's still polling better than Biden, Gore and Chaney. (43%, 44%, 36% respectively). Oh yes, he's still out-polling BP as well (6%).