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.
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.
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.” “
Pretty soon, Walter Mondale’s numbers will start looking good against Obama’s.
I’m still waiting for Erik to attack my freeform use of quotation marks….
…second biggest difference? The president used to have more in common with the hostages than the terrorists.