It’s been a while since we last offered one of our occasional Applesauce comparisons of the respective job-approval ratings of Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan at identical junctures in their presidencies.
The differences this time are telling. In March of 1983, the 27th month of Reagan’s presidency, the Gallup poll showed that 41 percent of Americans approved of the job he was doing, while 49 percent disapproved.
Obama, by comparison, is doing better. The latest Gallup Daily Tracking Poll shows that 49 percent of Americans approve of the job he’s doing, while 43 percent disapprove.
In other words, the approval and disapproval ratings of the two presidents in March of the third year of their first terms are inversions of each other. Not until seven months later did Reagan’s approval rating reach the point where Obama’s is now.
Reagan’s relatively low standing is largely attributable to an unemployment rate of 10.2 percent at that time. By contrast, the current jobless rate is 8.9 percent — too high, to be sure, but not as bad as Reagan was facing.
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Yeah….Obama is so popular that even his how party is talking impeachment:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51595.html
Mark Thomas: Get a grip, sonny boy.
Where do you get the crazy notion that “even his how [sic] party is talking impeachment”?
Dennis Kucinich is not the Democratic Party. He’s just one guy in the Democratic Party.
Is every Tea Party crackpot in Congress typical of the Republican Party? I would think that some Republicans would object to any such generalization.
By the way, I’m still waiting for you to produce evidence of those “faked” scientific documents concerning global warming to which you referred a few weeks ago.
Oh, one other thing: Why don’t you to refute the Obama-Reagan poll comparison I made in this post? Come on. I’d love to see your intellectual gymnastics on that matter.
With regards to the poll that you are taking so much faith in….
No comment….it’s like comparing apples to oranges. Two totally different circumstances. Different times, different ideas, different technology (used for gathering data), different world. What you need to do is try to put Obama in that time frame and ask the same or bring Reagan to this time and ask the same. Like I said….worthless poll.
I bet if it was a reversed outcome you would say the same, Pat.
You are so lame!
And where’s the evidence of those “faked” scientific documents?
You haven’t got any, do you?
Lame for my thought on the poll?
I be you still think Dewey won, too!
Pat…I’ll show you evidence on the faked documents when you show me that Dan Rather and the CBS news crew wasn’t behind the forged documents around George Bush.
Mark Thomas: I don’t know why I’m arguing with someone as dimwitted as you.
I’ve challenged you to produce evidence about “faked” documents regarding global warming because you have referred to such documents in a thread here.
But now you’re insisting that I first address the matter of Dan Rather and CBS and the Bush stuff — even though I’ve never mentioned that subject here.
In other words, you’re asking me to defend something I’ve never mentioned, but you’re refusing to defend something that you have, in fact, mentioned.
What a weasel! And you expect to be taken seriously?
You haven’t got evidence of those “faked” documents. You based that whole notion on your belief that the so-called Climategate scandal was a big gotcha. And when I responded with proof that numerous independent investigations of that bogus scandal have shown no evidence that disproves the scientific data, you tried to drop the subject. And when I challenged you to come up with evidence of those “faked” documents, you resorted to this baloney about Rather and CBS.
You’re a phony, Mark.
Pat – the reason I didn’t respond to your request is because anytime you are caught in a position you can’t respond you resort to name calling and bringing up other issues that have nothing to do with the point at hand.
I just need to remember that the biggest reason you do this is because that is the only way you can get people to respond to your blog and to keep coming back. You find subjects that get the biggest rise out of people and you beat it to death. Then once it starts dying out or you see you can’t answer you change the subject or call people names to continue the “rise”.
As much as you complain about the right wing agenda and some of those such as Rush or Hannity, you are no different then they are. Ultimately, you are entertainers who are using the medium they have to drive traffic and increase visibility. Well, it’s working my friend because your nonsense entertains the heck out of me every day!!
Keep it up…..I enjoy a good laugh.
Mark Thomas: In other words, you have no evidence of “faked” scientific documents, right?
Instead of backing up your phony claim in that regard, you throw up a smokescreen of rhetoric about how much I have in common with Limbaugh and Hannity.
Pathetic.
So, what we need is a tax hiking big government Reagan being attacked by the Tea Party for massively increasing government spending, not to mention large blocks of people attacking him for not being born in America (which hospital was he born in???).
Reagan signed the biggest tax hike in history,according to conservatives before the 1982 elections, then he doubled the gas taxes when gas prices were at record highs in January 1983, then he hiked the payroll tax to expand the SS welfare entitlement to all the baby boomers. And that was just in his first 27 months. Obviously Reagan was a big government liberal socialist, or really a communist because he had hiked more taxes than Obama has – wait, Obama hasn’t hiked any taxes on payroll, individual, or corporate incomes, but only cut them!
Clearly Reagan was far more extreme leftist than Obama!