Presidential approval ratings

I have been reading some comments on other blogs wherein right-wing trolls are smugly claiming that President Obama’s approval ratings are in the toilet and thus he is the worst president in modern times, will be a one-term president, etc. 

Well, here is a terrific site to disprove all this hogwash.  Note that in the first part, “Current President Barak Obama” the polls are  listed in reverse chronological order, and that as of February of this year all the listed polls show that Obama’s approval rating is higher than the disapproval rating.  And, note that among those polls is Fox News, which gives him 51% approve, 43% disapprove, and 6% “other.”

Then scroll down to the cool graphs and click on Ronald Regan, and you will see that after two years in office his approval rating was only 35%!  The graphs for the other presidents are also very interesting.  Bush Junior got the high ratings in the first years of his presidency because of 9/11, and finished under 40%, having dipped below 30% just months before his term ended.  By the way, the graphs are a bit confusing with respect to disapproval percentage.  For the disapproval percentage you have to read the scale from the top and treat the 100% line as zero, 90% as 10% and so on.  It took me a while to figure that out.

The guy who is fascinating is Clinton.  Click on his graph and you will see that his approval rating was well over 50% from early 1996 until the end of his presidency.  Mind you, this was in the face of constant trashing by the right wing haters and a full-blown impeachment!  Amazing.