Now that the White House’s War on Fox News and War on Edmunds have tapered off, Bobby Gibbs has declared war on yet another company…the Gallup polling company. Why? Because their numbers (which still paint a rosier picture than Rasmussen, mind you), show that Obama has the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in his term.
President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term.
Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and even Richard Nixon all had higher approval ratings 10-and-a-half months into their presidencies. Obama’s immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, had an approval rating of 86 percent, or 39 points higher than Obama at this stage. Bush’s support came shortly after he launched the war in Afghanistan in response to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he doesn’t “put a lot of stock” in the survey by Gallup, which has conducted presidential approval polls since 1938, longer than any other organization.
“If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs said in response to questions from Fox. “I’m sure a six-year-old with a Crayon could do something not unlike that. I don’t put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is daily Gallup trend. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the meaninglessness of it.”
Emphasis added. Bear in mind, however, that Gibbs isn’t attacking Gallup for being inaccurate. He’s attacking them for the same reason the administration attacked Fox and Edmunds: dissent. It’s not currently allowed in our country to disagree with The One or The One’s Minions. Disagreement with Obama is a crime tantamount to treason and is being treated as such. It’s a strategy straight out of Saul Alkinsky’s playbook.
Regarding the actual data from Gallup, however, check this out:
When Gallup began taking presidential approval polls 71 years ago, Franklin Roosevelt had been president for more than five years. During his remaining time in office, his job approval rating never fell below 48 percent.
The next 11 presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, all had higher job approval ratings than Obama at this stage of their tenure. Their ratings were:
– George W. Bush, 86 percent
– Bill Clinton, 52 percent
– George H.W. Bush, 71 percent
– Ronald Reagan, 49 percent
– Jimmy Carter, 57 percent
– Gerald Ford, 52 percent
– Richard Nixon, 59 percent
– Lyndon Johnson, 74 percent
– John Kennedy, 77 percent
– Dwight Eisenhower, 69 percent
– Harry Truman, 49 percent
Obama is at 47%. Change We Can Believe In?
