Obama’s 47% on Gallup is the lowest approval of any president at this point in their presidency

obama_smoke.jpgYesterday we mentioned that Obama is now only a +1 on the latest Gallup daily tracking poll. He sits at 47% job approval rating and 46% job DISAPPROVAL rating in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update. This represents not only his lowest job approval rating to date, but also his highest job disapproval rating to date. What I didn’t know until today is that Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, is the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in their term! The worst White House Press Secretary in history Robert Gibbs said he doesn’t “put a lot of stock” in the survey by Gallup, which has conducted presidential approval polls since 1938, longer than any other organization.

“If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs said in response to questions from Fox. “I’m sure a six-year-old with a Crayon could do something not unlike that. I don’t put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is daily Gallup trend. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the meaninglessness of it.”

I guess this now means that Gallup has been thrown under the bus. According to Fox News, when Gallup began taking presidential approval polls 71 years ago, Franklin Roosevelt had been president for more than five years. During his remaining time in office, his job approval rating never fell below 48 percent.

The next 11 presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, all had higher job approval ratings than Obama at this stage of their tenure. Their ratings were:

– 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

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December 8, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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