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Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« on: November 29, 2011, 11:58:08 AM »
President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.

Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent.

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Back in 1979, Carter was far below Obama until the Iran hostage crisis, eerily being duplicated in Tehran today with Iranian protesters storming the British embassy. The early days of the crisis helped Carter's ratings, though his failure to win the release of captured Americans, coupled with a bad economy, led to his defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980.

According to Gallup, here are the job approval numbers for other presidents at this stage of their terms, a year before the re-election campaign:

-- Harry S. Truman: 54 percent.

-- Dwight Eisenhower: 78 percent.

-- Lyndon B. Johnson: 44 percent.

-- Richard M. Nixon: 50 percent.

-- Ronald Reagan: 54 percent.

-- George H.W. Bush: 52 percent.

-- Bill Clinton: 51 percent.

-- George W. Bush: 55 percent.

What's more, Gallup finds that Obama's overall job approval rating so far has averaged 49 percent. Only three former presidents have had a worse average rating at this stage: Carter, Ford, and Harry S. Truman. Only Truman won re-election in an anti-Congress campaign that Obama's team is using as a model.

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Many pundits believe that job approval ratings are the key number to look at when determining if a president will win re-election. Generally, they feel that a president should be higher than 47 percent to win re-election.

Obama's troubles have revived talk in Democratic circles that Vice President Joe Biden should be replaced by the politically popular Hillary Clinton. She plans to leave as secretary of state at the end of Obama's term no matter what happens in the re-election.

A key Democratic source said that Clinton could help revive the Democratic base and bring in Clinton backers, with whom the administration has had a cool relationship. Clinton has repeatedly rejected talk of her swapping roles with Biden, but Democratic operatives eager to keep the president in office believe that she would be the key to winning educated white voters and liberals upset with the administration's actions.


http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/29/obamas-job-approval-drops-below-carters

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2011, 12:05:19 PM »
your post approval has dropped below zero.

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2011, 12:07:17 PM »
Hillary Clinton one heartbeat away from the Presidency.
That brother better be watching his back 24/7.

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2011, 12:22:44 PM »
People are waking up to Obamas bullshit finally.

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2011, 12:40:58 PM »
People are waking up to Obamas bullshit finally.

to fall into the republicans? what difference does that make? congress has a 9% approval rating yet idiots still go out and vote for people they don't even want in office. the political system is a joke.

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2011, 12:48:52 PM »
to fall into the republicans? what difference does that make? congress has a 9% approval rating yet idiots still go out and vote for people they don't even want in office. the political system is a joke.
You mistake me for a party guy cause I hate Obama. I think they're both crooks, but Obama Imho OS a huge piece of shit.

I'm for common sense, and I'm against whoever is furthest away from common sense.
Right now that's Obama.

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2011, 12:53:25 PM »
hahahah and we all thought carter was the worst president ever  hahahha

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2011, 12:55:22 PM »
Of course Obama is like Carter on roids.  All empty rhetoric, wellfare nanny state government spending and wealth redistribution

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2011, 12:56:50 PM »
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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2011, 02:49:04 PM »
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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2011, 02:51:33 PM »
You mistake me for a party guy cause I hate Obama. I think they're both crooks, but Obama Imho OS a huge piece of shit.

I'm for common sense, and I'm against whoever is furthest away from common sense.
Right now that's Obama.

oh, alright i agree with that in my own interpretation. i don't think obama is going to lose, perry or romney aren't very strong candidates so it would have to depend entirely on how the economy (i.e the stock market) holds up until november

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2011, 02:52:24 PM »
Of course Obama is like Carter on roids.  All empty rhetoric, wellfare nanny state government spending and wealth redistribution

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2011, 02:57:38 PM »
 ;D

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2011, 04:02:00 PM »
wealth redistribution is good for the country and it's people.


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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2011, 04:07:32 PM »
wealth redistribution is good for the country and it's people.



Lulz.
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Cant believe some people get so workerd up over you/actually think youre a serious poster. Lol.

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2011, 04:14:25 PM »
That's why we don't need her on here.

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #16 on: November 29, 2011, 04:35:04 PM »
wealth redistribution is good for the country and it's people.




not when it's in the current form, where the government extracts wealth from the poor and working class and funnels it to the rich

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2011, 05:30:15 PM »
so lets all vote republican! their platform is awesome! thing is, we send troops to fight and kill and die, and we support overthrowing religious states so they can become democratic, yet, they want to turn this country into a fukkin religious state! bible rules, bitches.
we were warned by jefferson and adams to beware the religious right, yet the republican party is all about that.
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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2011, 05:50:08 PM »
so lets all vote republican! their platform is awesome! thing is, we send troops to fight and kill and die, and we support overthrowing religious states so they can become democratic, yet, they want to turn this country into a fukkin religious state! bible rules, bitches.
we were warned by jefferson and adams to beware the religious right, yet the republican party is all about that.
ron paul!

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2011, 05:51:12 PM »
;D

No way gas prices were $1.83 on inauguration day. Kind of makes every other number suspect.
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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2011, 05:53:12 PM »
and what do you think mccains approval rating would be right now?

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2011, 05:53:55 PM »
and what do you think mccains approval rating would be right now?

Who cares, he ain't the Prez.

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #22 on: November 29, 2011, 05:57:46 PM »
Who cares, he ain't the Prez.
it matters. lets say the ideal conservative was in office. he killed the epa, cut taxes on corporations, didnt put in the healthcare reform.. and everything else the republicans think should have happened/should be done. what do you think his approval rating would be ?

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #23 on: November 29, 2011, 06:00:47 PM »
Coach's head drops below Bill Pearl's belt line

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Re: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
« Reply #24 on: November 29, 2011, 06:03:26 PM »
I still can't figure out why the most anti-business president of all time was elected to try and clean up the biggest economic disaster since the depression.