Sad?

[kpete]

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

Link to tweet

[Kimchijeon]

1. 🌈YAY🌈

Happy Sunday!

[Thomas Hurt]

2. We are gonna win so much you might even get tired of winning....

Time for another "Touch Myself Rally'.....

[unblock]

3. hard to believe carter hit 75% approval.

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]

5. 75 percent approval rating and then not reelected. Now that's sad

[unblock]

6. well, a lot can change in a few years....

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]

11. Or even in just a couple of months.

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]

14. Trump certainly won't be reelected, yeoman6987.

His followers needn't worry about that.

[democratisphere]

4. Hopefully he'll be gone in 40 more days.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. It's like America

has hired a bulldozer operator to do brain surgery

[Percy Cholmondeley]

8. This guy couldn't be worried about the truth, or facts.

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]

9. even more sad because it is 37% too high!

[Honeycombe8]

10. That perked me up! Not EVERYONE is crazy, apparently! nt

[malaise]

12. Happy!

Me

[spanone]

13. way too high.

8~)