Posted on 07/02/2014 8:29:44 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years into President Barack Obama's second term, more voters say they are dissatisfied with his administration's handling of everything from the economy to foreign policy, giving him the worst marks of any modern U.S. president, a poll on Wednesday said.
In a survey of 1,446 registered voters, 33 percent said Obama was the worst president since World War Two, while 28 percent pointed to his predecessor, George W. Bush, as the worst, the poll by Quinnipiac University found.
Voters were split over which of the two most recent presidents has done a better job with 39 percent saying Obama has been a better president than Bush and, 40 percent saying Obama is worse.
Most voters said Ronald Reagan, who served two terms in the 1980s, was the best president since 1945, the survey showed.
"Over the span of 69 years of American history and 12 presidencies, President Barack Obama finds himself with President George W. Bush at the bottom of the popularity barrel," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of Quinnipiac University's polling unit.
While Obama's job approval rating has inched higher to 40 percent, up from 38 percent in December, more voters gave him largely negative marks in key areas: the economy, foreign policy, healthcare and terrorism, according to the poll.
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“in modern times”
“ever” is what came to my mind.
“Since WWII”? Come on! EVER! He’s the worst president ever because he is a TRAITOR!
#BlameDemocratVoters
Certainly the worst POTUS since Buchannan and he is certainly the gayest POUTUS since Buchannan as well.
If politicians had left the system as the Founding States had intended it to operate, a very limited power federal government with a president elected by the electoral college, then citizens would likely have to guess who the current president is.
On the other hand, just think what a dull, boring courtry this would be to gruw up and live in if parents actually made sure that their children were taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
— Barack Obama, October 30, 2008
that explains the party at the carter home the other night.
The most blood thirsty resident EVER!
He will become more and more obstinate.
Good one!
They should do a poll asking who is the most ‘hated’ president. He’d win in a landslide.
Yes, look at his “Sue me” comment....He’s a sicko
It usually takes about 20 years for historians to settle things out after a presidency - for good or for worse.
I think that Obama will be viewed very unfavorably in the final analysis ...
Worst President is US History and FIRST DICTATOR in US History...
I wish for a time again when candidates quietly put their names forward, did not campaign themselves, were selected at real conventions after the 4th ballot, and were there to actually follow their oaths if they won.
This poll will disappear in no time, to be replaced by a more scientific poll that more accurately reflects Obama’s enormous popularity.
Sample questions:
1) Name the best president currently in office, including all those who have served since January, 2009.
a) Barack Obama
b) a, above
2) Excluding presidents currently living in the White House, who, in your opinion, is the worst president of all time?
a) Ronald Reagan
b) George W. Bush
c) Richard Nixon
d) Anybody but Barack Obama
Even the slow learners are starting to “get it”.
Sad that it took all this time and a virtually destroyed country for them to do so!
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