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Obama’s performance in the polls parallels that of Reagan … so far
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jan 18, 2010 04:15pm |
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| News Date | Monday, January 18, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I’ve written before about the parallels between the polling performance of Barack Obama and that of Ronald Reagan, who also took office at a time of economic difficulty. The chart at left (H/t Washington Monthly) lays it out graphically.
Dan Balz, writing in the Washington Post, echoes the point as well:
Around the White House these days, the president’s advisers draw analogies with Reagan to paint a hopeful portrait of Obama’s weakened standing. Reagan, they note, had approval ratings around 50 percent at the end of his first year in office and ended up winning a landslide reelection victory in 1984. What they don’t say so vocally is that Reagan’s approval dipped into the 40s in the fall of 1982, and that his party suffered substantial losses in Congress that November
Obama has long shown an interest in Reagan’s presidency. During Obama’s campaign, he got under the skin of former President Bill Clinton when he characterized Reagan’s presidency as one that “changed the trajectory of America” in ways that neither Clinton’s nor Richard M. Nixon’s had done. |
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