Obama’s first-year approval at 57%, poll shows
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Only one president in modern times has ended his first year in office with lower job approval -- viewed as an average for the year -- than the rating with which President Obama is concluding his year.
Bill Clinton.
In the Gallup Poll’s measures of job approval since the 1950s, Clinton’s average approval during his first year was 49%.
With an average first-year approval of 57%, Gallup reports today, Obama has tied Ronald Reagan for the second-lowest first-year average.
It’s important to remember in this context that both Clinton and Reagan went on to win second terms.
-- Mark Silva