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

November 29th, 2011 (8) Posted By 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.

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  • 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

  • http://genelalor.com Gene Lalor

    Obamacrat Slurs, Snipes, and Smears
    The other day, Rush Limbaugh warned whomever eventually wins the Republican nomination for the presidency to be prepared for an avalanche of vicious assaults from the re-elect Obama billion dollar attack machine.
    Limbaugh was wrong in one respect: That onslaught began months ago with the only distinction being that the viciousness is mostly emanating from Obama acolytes in his mainstream media rather than directly from the White House.
    All this year, we have witnessed every Republican hopeful mercilessly pilloried as soon as he or she gains any traction in the GOP sweepstakes.  Pawlenty, Trump, Christie, Bachmann, Gingrich, Cain have each had their turn being attacked.  If a day goes by without some leftist guttersnipe taking unsubstantiated pot shots at a candidate, Leno and Letterman are ready to ridicule them at night with nasty derision–all in good fun, of course.
    The only Republican to escape leftist castigation, relatively, has been Mitt Romney, leading to conjecture that the left wants him to win the nomination because they expect to whup him, just as Carterites were eager to get at Ronald Reagan.
    What was it Obama said about the need for more civility?  Evidently, the mainstreamers never got that memo.
    One of the leaders of the MSM attack pack, the Washington Post, was apparently running out of ammunition with which to abuse the latest target, Newt Gingrich, so WaPo’s Aaron Blake resorted to the internet to gather more dirt.  Blake tweeted for his fellow Twitter tweeps to send him all “outlandish/incorrect predictions and quotes” by or about Gingrich that they could dig up or make up. 
    Note: Blake was in search of the “outlandish/incorrect” rather than the truth. . .(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=7657.)

  • 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…