Obama vs. Carter: Carter Wins Again
A new Gallup poll shows that only 39% of Americans have a positive view of the country, the lowest it’s been since Carter’s presidency.
The biggest difference between now & then? Hostages don’t survive 444 days anymore.
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January 30th, 2013 at 6:04 pm
And, by the way, can anyone reconcile these two headlines?
President Obama’s popularity surges to three-year high
[Washington Post ^ | 01/30/2013 | Scott Clement and Aaron Blake]
vs.
Obama Job Approval Rating Lower than Nixon´s
[Breitbart´s Big Government ^ | 1/29/13 | AWR Hawkins]
“According to Gallup, President Obama is tied with George W. Bush for most unpopular re-elected president since Gallup began measuring presidential job-approval in 1945. In fact, Gallup found that apart from Bush, “every president…has had a higher job-approval rating in the January following his reelection than Obama has.” “
January 30th, 2013 at 7:04 pm
Pretty soon, Walter Mondale’s numbers will start looking good against Obama’s.
January 30th, 2013 at 7:17 pm
I’m still waiting for Erik to attack my freeform use of quotation marks….
January 31st, 2013 at 1:19 am
…second biggest difference? The president used to have more in common with the hostages than the terrorists.