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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 Gallup's First quarter survey in April, President Obama received a 63% approval rating. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By the time Obama was elected as President of the United States on November 4, 2008, Bush's approval rating was in the low to mid 20s and his disapproval grew increasingly significant, being in the high 60s, and even low 70s in some polls. [77] Polls consistently showed that his approval ratings among American voters had averaged around 30 percent.
Compare Biden’s approval rating with that of Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton. Updated regularly.
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 ...
In a CNN/ORC poll conducted after the convention, 54% of Americans said they approved of Obama's job performance. Obama's approval rating is near its highest point ever -- and that could be a big ...