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Last Gallup approval before election, outgoing two-termers:
Dwight Eisenhower 58%
Ronald Reagan 51%
Bill Clinton 57%
George W Bush 25%
Barack Obama 57%
Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval | Gallup
Granted, it's a weak correlation to the eventual election - Nixon and Gore both lost their elections. But it's still better to be a Democrat following Obama than a Republican following Bush II.
Between where stock prices have gone - up - and where gas prices and unemployment have gone - down, with unemployment being lower in the last 13 consecutive months than it was in every single month of Ronald Reagan's Presidency, one could make the case for Obama being one of the great "boom" - in the economic sense, not the generational sense (!) - Presidents of all time.
Yet the right-wing media has largely succeeded in painting this picture of the economy being "terrible" under this President - the worst it has been since the Depression in fact.
Dwight Eisenhower 58%
Ronald Reagan 51%
Bill Clinton 57%
George W Bush 25%
Barack Obama 57%
Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval | Gallup
Granted, it's a weak correlation to the eventual election - Nixon and Gore both lost their elections. But it's still better to be a Democrat following Obama than a Republican following Bush II.
Between where stock prices have gone - up - and where gas prices and unemployment have gone - down, with unemployment being lower in the last 13 consecutive months than it was in every single month of Ronald Reagan's Presidency, one could make the case for Obama being one of the great "boom" - in the economic sense, not the generational sense (!) - Presidents of all time.
Yet the right-wing media has largely succeeded in painting this picture of the economy being "terrible" under this President - the worst it has been since the Depression in fact.