Same as Bush???

[question everything]

One of the Cable chatter said that Obama's approval rate is the same as Bush had after his 100 days. Why? What had he done in those days, except choking on a pretzel and planning the plunder of the surplus that Clinton left him, no thanks to Reagan and papa?

[Laelth]

1. That can't be right.

Bush II's approval ratings were mediocre, at best, until after 9-11.

:dem:

-Laelth

[question everything]

2. Apparently it is

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob1.htm


ABC/Washington Post

4/19-22/01. . . . . . 63

Fox (oh well)

4/18-19/01. . . . . . 63

NBC/WSJ

4/21-23/01. . . . . . 56

Gallup/USA Today

4/20-22/01. . . . . . 62

OK, Obama is higher, and I don't know enough statistics to conclude whether this is significant

http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job.htm

NBC/WSJ

4/23-26/09. . . . . . 61

CNN/ORC

4/23-26/09. . . . . . 63

CBS/New York Times

4/22-26/09. . . . . . 68

ABC/Washington Post

4/21-24/09. . . . . . 69

FOX/OD RV

4/22-23/09. . . . . . 62

Pew

4/14-21/09. . . . . . 63

[Zynx]

7. That would not be statistically significant in any one poll, but the average

may be. The more polls you pool, the more the standard deviations come in and the greater your confidence intervals are. I would have to see what all of the MOEs and sample sizes are.

[Laelth]

8. Guess my memory is faulty.

I absolutely loathed Bush after he was selected by the SCOTUS. Perhaps I was projecting.

:)

:dem:

-Laelth

[Dawgs]

3. Thanks to Clinton, we had peace and prosperity during Bush's first 100 days.

Everyone was feeling good back then.

[Igel]

4. Hardly.

Were you feeling good back then?

The country was in a recession, mind you, and the indicators had been showing a recession was imminent for the previous 6 months. There was the entire "SCOTUS selected" business and the moveon-ous ourtage.

Lots of people weren't feeling good. And yet, there you have it.

[Dinger]

5. Yeah, Maybe 9-12-01

What, 94% Yeah, I'd say it's possible.

[NYC Liberal]

6. Bush got high marks because he didn't do anything extraordinarily good or bad

Obama gets high marks because of his *actions*

[Ilsa]

9. Bush had good marks because he didn't have many public appearances

the first nine months, IIRC. The less the public saw him, the better they thought of him. No reason for the buyers' remorse.