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In the United States, presidential job approval ratings were first conducted by George Gallup (estimated to be 1937) to gauge public support for the president of the United States during their term. An approval rating is a percentage determined by polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a ...
According to the Gallup Organization, Obama began his presidency with a 68 percent approval rating, [423] the fifth highest for a president following their swearing in. [424] His ratings remained above the majority level until November 2009 [425] and by August 2010 his approval was in the low 40s, [426] a trend similar to Ronald Reagan's and ...
Whether this perceived tendency is real is a subject of dispute: for example, political statistician Nate Silver, after analyzing presidential approval ratings for Harry S. Truman through Barack Obama, did find that approval ratings were lower on average during second terms, but he also found a variety of other reasons to explain those ratings ...
Obama's approval rating recently hit 56 percent -- his highest level since 2011 -- but that's not the only issue for Donald Trump. Obama's approval rating is near its highest point ever — and ...
Only 40 percent of Americans had a favorable rating of the 43rd president as he left office. Obama's highest favorables came and went before he even moved into the White House, when 78 percent saw ...
But the president's spiking approval ratings and popularity suggest that argument might become lost. Obama's approval rating is at its highest point in years, and that could be a big problem for ...
By RYAN GORMAN U.S. President Barack Obama's approval rating has hit a 2014 high, but pales in comparison to Americans' opinions of a former president during his second term. Just under 47 percent ...
Gallup began tracking presidential approval ratings of the first quarters since Dwight Eisenhower in 1953. President John F. Kennedy received the highest in April 1961 with a 74% rating. Obama's 63% is the fourth highest and the highest since President Jimmy Carter with a 69%.