[quote=Aecetia]Obama is doing great, just look at his standings in the polls. “Number of Americans in poverty jumps to 43.6M; working-age poor at highest level since 1960s.” He is right up there with LBJ and Hoover.
Gallup has an interactive graph that lets you compare presidential approval ratings. Here is how the presidents have ranked at roughly 600 days into office:
76 G Bush
70 G W Bush
66 Eisenhower
65 Johnson
63 Kennedy
57 Nixon
48 Ford
46 Obama
45 Carter
42 Clinton
42 Regan
35 Truman
Approval @ 600 days averages around 54%.
These are intersting numbers, but when you compare them to how the various administrations eventually panned out, they don’t reveal much. Polls schmolls.
