As of July 2015, President Obama’s public approval rating was 44%, down significantly from his starting approval of 62%. To be fair, Obama...
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As of July 2015, President Obama’s public approval rating was 44%, down significantly from his starting approval of 62%.
To be fair, Obama still has around a year left in office, so his approval rating is far from final. But few presidents leave the White House more popular than when they entered.So how does Obama stack up to the modern presidents when it comes to popularity?
We also provide an overall breakdown of each president’s approval to gauge how public support shifted over time.
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We’ll start with the least popular president and work our way to the most popular presidents in modern U.S. history.
George H.W. Bush
Score: 44.70. President Bush’s numbers are below average in most categories, but he takes a notable hit on unemployment.
As the economic crises continued to worsen in the president’s final six months in office, unemployment soared, enough to knock Bush into second-to-last.
Bill Clinton
Score: 60.07. Clinton tends to receive high marks in today’s public opinion polls, but the raw numbers don’t speak quite as highly of the Commander in Chief.
Yes, his economic numbers ranged from decent to good, but his party consistently lost seats throughout his presidency.
To Clinton’s credit, he was able to work with a Republican-controlled Congress, but the fact that he lost so many seats at all speaks to an underlying flaw in the president.
Barack Obama
Score: 51.93. While Obama has a bit more time to shape his legacy, we ran his numbers to the present day to see where he would rank.
The current Commander in Chief has overseen a significant drop in unemployment and done well with the deficit, but his approval ratings remain stubbornly low and the federal debt has increased significantly. - Online Sources
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