[lbo-talk] the raving haters in perspective

[Doug Henwood]

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