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Obama’s Job Approval Finally Drops Below Jimmy Carter’s



Nov 29, 2011 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

(US News) — President Obama’s slow ride down Gallup’s daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.

Since March, Obama’s job approval rating has hovered above Carter’s, considered among the 20th century’s worst presidents, but today Obama’s punctured Carter’s dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama’s job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter’s 51 percent.

Back in 1979, Carter was far below Obama until the Iran hostage crisis, eerily being duplicated in Tehran today with Iranian protesters storming the British embassy. The early days of the crisis helped Carter’s ratings, though his failure to win the release of captured Americans, coupled with a bad economy, led to his defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980.


  • remmy

    It should be much lower than it is.

  • remmy

    It should be much lower than it is.

  • howardfrombroward

    can still remember the obamessiah’s heady 2008 campaign pledge to a dewy-eyed audience of mesmerised sycophants that his election would mark the moment when the rise of the oceans begins to slow and our planet begins to heal. native americans named him “swollen ego” after that grandiose claim. if you cleverly and meaningfully rearrange the letters in his message, it becomes “i am sneakily determined to destroy america’s exceptionalism and freedoms by ruthlessly havocking its economy beyond salvaging, 24/7.”

  • http://twitter.com/Winston80 Winston

    He is even worse than Jimmy Carter

  • Billy

    But wait! The Left loves Jimmy. How can it be that he is considered the among the 20th century’s worst presidents? O I know, he wasn’t “Left enough”; yeah, that’s it

  • Bobby E.

    At least Jimmy had a career before he became a left-wing ‘nut’.

  • Lou

    We Americans tend to have selective memories for some reason and many weren’t around or don’t remember the mess we were in with Carter but our Debt to GDP% wasn’t even a quarter of what it is today under Obama with the current batch of Democraps idea of driving the bus..Reagan compared, had easy pickings for turning the economy around but today??? I dunnooooo…we be in BIG BIG twubble with or with out Obama getting re-elected..if re-elected it will only speed things up…