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Gallup- Job approval upon hitting 60 days in office:
Carter 75
Reagan 60
HW Bush 56
Clinton 53
W Bush 58
Obama 63
Trump... 37
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Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Happy Sunday!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Time for another "Touch Myself Rally'.....
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(52,387 posts)that means that that approval included a considerable number of republicans.
also hard to believe carter got a whole lot of crap for being too conservative. he was at that time the right wing of the democratic party, and now of course he's the modern right wing's definition of the wacko liberal.
how times have changed.... sad!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)unblock
(52,387 posts)if i were in charge of writing history, i'd say that he fell on his sword by appointing volcker to the fed. had he appointed a dove, interest rates wouldn't have been quite so high and we wouldn't have had a recession going into the election.
people fixate on the hostage crisis, and that certainly didn't help (particularly with the infamous nightline daily counter), but the economy colors our view of political events. recessions put people in a foul mood and they weren't eager to cut carter any slack over the hostage crisis.
had the economy been in better shape, they might have rallied around the president, or at least not blamed him as much.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)In Carter's case, his approval took its first real tumble when he signed the Panama Canal Treaty in September '77. And by early '78, he was already underwater - long before the economy or the hostages became big issues.
I suppose that like many of his initiatives, he was forced to spend a lot of political capital on reaching goals that most voters simply didn't understand and on which Carter just couldn't persuade.
That, a lot of bad luck, and enough GOP intrigue for a Le Carré novel, ultimately did him in.
Kingofalldems
(38,496 posts)His followers needn't worry about that.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)has hired a bulldozer operator to do brain surgery
Percy Cholmondeley
(74 posts)Not during the campaign. He was trying to make a sale. He did, too. And that, to him, was winning. I find myself wondering what my wife and I, and our grown kids, did to deserve this...
NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)Me
spanone
(135,900 posts)8~)