Whatever! I am off to Spain with my guurrrlfriends again!
Posted on 02/04/2011 8:46:33 AM PST by MissesBush
PRINCETON, NJ -- President Barack Obama's job approval ratings were even more polarized during his second year in office than during his first, when he registered the most polarized ratings for a first-year president. An average of 81% of Democrats and 13% of Republicans approved of the job Obama was doing as president during his second year. That 68-point gap in party ratings is up from 65 points in his first year and is easily the most polarized second year for a president since Dwight Eisenhower.
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are the only two presidents prior to Obama who had gaps of at least 50 points in their approval ratings by party in their second year in office. In general, recent presidents, including George W. Bush, tend to have more polarized ratings than earlier presidents did.
Though Obama's first- and second-year ratings rank among the most polarized of all presidential years, Bush had three years with a larger gap in party ratings. In Bush's fourth year in office -- the year he was re-elected -- there was an average 76-point gap in approval ratings of him between Republicans and Democrats.
In total, Bush accounts for 6 of the 10 most polarized presidential years in Gallup history. Bush's first two years were less polarized owing to the rally in support he got from Americans after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Clinton and Reagan are the only other presidents to make the top 10 list; both did so in the year they were re-elected.
Implications
Though Americans have always been more approving of presidents from the party they support than of presidents from the party they oppose, the partisan gap in presidential ratings has expanded.
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Basically, everyone who has a hand out to the government - that is to say, the socialists - love the guy. Everyone else - that is, anyone with any personal integrity and/or two brain cells to rub together - hates him.
Interesting. The gap may be increasing, but the Democrat support is dropping too. It is just that Republican support is declining slightly faster than Democrat support.
Democrat support for Barry is collapsing because he did not go Socialist far enough, fast enough for them (no card check, no public option, no mortgage cramdowns, no WPA style massive government jobs program, etc.)
Whatever! I am off to Spain with my guurrrlfriends again!
Isn’t it interesting that we have heard nothing lately about the USDA reparations to wannabe negro farmers. Folks, we are paying for something 99.9% of us had nothing to do with. These damn republicans that went along with this scheme are just trying to play nice so they aren’t called racists. When are we going to shut down this corrupt justice department that has become a bad joke. Blacks kill far more blacks than whites do but they still want to level the playing field? Think NBB and voter intimidation! Okay, I’ve vented so I’ll get back to work now.
The fact that the “polarized” nature of the poll results is the story makes me suspect that the actual story is that American people have soured on the One.
13% of Republicans?!
Approve of The Won?!
They ain’t no republicans.
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