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Average initial approval Average initial disapproval Net initial approval Average final approval Average final disapproval Net final approval Initial to final change 46 Biden 57.5 37.5 +20 37.9 56.9 -19 -39 45 Trump (first presidency) 45 46 -1 41.1 56.1 -15 -14 44 Obama 68.5 12.5 +56 59 37 +22 -34 43 G. W. Bush 57 25 +32 34 61 -27 -59 42 Clinton
Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
Barack Obama led the pack at 79% in CNN’s first read on his transition approval rating in December 2008, while Biden at 66%, Bush at 65% and Clinton at 62% all received higher approval numbers ...
President Obama and his campaign aired early negative ads calling Republican challenger Mitt Romney an out-of-touch, plutocratic, wealthy job destroyer since his days as CEO at Bain Capital. Romney bounced back in the polls after strong performances in the primaries and because the economy was still recovering from the 2007–2009 recession.
Obama left the White House—using Pew numbers again—with a job approval rating just below that of Presidents Reagan’s and Clinton’s when they exited. "58% approve of [Obama’s] job ...
At the 100-day mark Trump's predecessor former President Barack Obama had a 65 percent approval rating. Former President George W. Bush before him sat at 53 percent 100 days into his first term.
In March 2009, a Rasmussen Reports poll was the first to show President Barack Obama's approval rating falling. Writing in The Wall Street Journal , Scott Rasmussen, along with President Clinton's pollster, Douglas Schoen , said, "Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an ...
Trump posed the question to Obama when they first met in the Oval Office shortly after Trump won the 2016 election, according to a forthcoming book.