[lbo-talk] the raving haters in perspective

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 16 09:02:17 PDT 2009


A debate’s alight on why disapproval of Barack Obama has become so unusually strong. The answer: It hasn’t. Three of the last four presidents have seen this level of strong unpopularity – one of them faster; another, far deeper.

After eight months in office, 31 percent of Americans in the latest ABC/Post poll strongly disapprove of Obama’s performance as president. Bill Clinton reached the same level of strong disapproval in five months. And while it took George W. Bush longer to get there, he traveled much farther into strong disapproval, and languished there for years.

See the blog item at: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2009/09/obamas-strong-disapproval.html



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