21
Jan 2009
You Just Can’t Win
… unless you’re Clinton, perhaps… from the depths of my love for infographics, here’s a compilation of presidential approval ratings since 1946. Every one of them except Clinton (and, somewhat, H.W. Bush) shows a clear downward slide from day one (of course, Clinton also starts the lowest). Many of them also show a very slight rebound right at the end.
Lessons to be learned here: we Americans have no patience, and apparently we didn’t always love war. I’m unclear on if Reagan’s midterm bump is from Granada or not.
Good luck, Mr. Obama… you’ll need it!
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January 22nd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Interesting that even an assassination couldn’t help JFK’s approval rating…
Too soon?