George W. Bush 2nd Year Approval Rating One of the Best Ever

Gallup Poll Analyses ^ | January 17, 2003 | Jeffrey M. Jones

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For his second full year in office George W. Bush averaged a job approval rating of 71.5% topping his first year average of 67.1%

Among the nearly 60 years that the Gallup Organization has been tracking Presidential approval, George W. Bush's average ranks him 8th on the list of all time best annual averages.

It is roughly six points below the top reading, earned by President Harry Truman in his first year in office after succeeding Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The only other Presidents to exceed George W. Bush on this list are Dwight David Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

Bush's rating is just slightly higher than what his father earned in 1991, including a Gulf War that earned him widespread, if temporal, public support.

Several Presidents have never had a year with public approval strong enough to put them in the list of top 15 job approval ratings.

In Bill Clinton's best year commencing January 1998, he recieved an annual approval rating of 63.8%, ranking 17th on the full list of 60 ratings.

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Congrats, to Karl & Andy and especially to President Bush!

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[Mo1]

For his second full year in office George W. Bush averaged a job approval rating of 71.5% topping his first year average of 67.1%

1st .. I'm not surprise .. the american people trust him

2nd .. The Dems are gonna be really upset at this ... hehe

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morning good news ping!

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Administration ping!

[Claire Voyant]

LYNDON JOHNSON?????????

[Caipirabob]

"Oh, excuse me, was there something else you wanted to add, Helen?"

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Rummy Zot!

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I think that year was after JFK and before the buildup in Vietnam.

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Yes, Helen would you like a new hairstyle?

[Claire Voyant]

I was a KID and always thought Lyndon Johnson or Lady Bird had something to do with the assassination. I thought all of America should have been suspicious.

[Claire Voyant]

A bolt of lightning might help that old hag, Helen Thomas.

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Excellent news!

[Mad Dawgg]

I always wondered what the "source" of all the "ZOTS" were.

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Lady Bird was actually a lady and would have had nothing to do with a murder. Her huband, OTOH... However, I still don't think he had anything to do with it either.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

You weren't alone. The assumption by a lot of people, here and overseas was put to me this way "If you are prince and you want to be king? The King must die!" So, there was a motive.

[Claire Voyant]

IMHO, real ladies don't marry men like that evil despicable, Lyndon Johnson! Gad, he held meetings while he was sitting on the toilet!!! I think she was after power, cloaked in a lace glove.

[Claire Voyant]

Thanks....it's one of the things I have always wanted to know...who REALLY killed JFK.

[Mixer]

So much for those crappy "Time - Europe" polls that said GW did not have a good approval rate.

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I can still remember his first "Mah fellah 'mericans" address to the country after the assasination.

Total revulsion.