Obama more popular than Reagan, Clinton at this point in their presidencies

[victoryparty]

It's amazing what a little research in Google's News Archives will turn up.

Excerpt:

To hear some of the Tea Partiers tell it, President Obama is about as popular as a case of acid reflux. That may be true with some people, but newspaper archive research by The Punditty Project reveals that far from being in political trouble, Obama is actually faring better than both Ronald Reagan and Bill Bill Clinton at this point in their respective presidencies.

There are far more polls available today than even 15 years ago, so TPProject uses the Real Clear Politics average as the best indicator of Obama’s popularity. The president’s numbers were at 48.5 percent approval and 44.9 disapproval on May 4, 2010.

In May of 1994, a Harris Poll found then-president Bill Clinton with a 42 percent approval rating and a 56 percent disapproval rating. Clinton eventually made a comeback to handily win re-election over GOP nominee Bob Dole.

In May of 1982, just 44 percent of those surveyed approved of the way then-president Ronald Reagan was handling his presidency. He bounced back to crush Democratic nominee Walter Mondale in 1984.

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http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5743014-poll-research-shocker-obama-more-popular-than-reagan-clinton-at-this-point-in-presidencies

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[Captain Hilts]

1. The Republican Party has a death wish. nt

[Jennicut]

2. I think Obama's numbers will actually climb a bit back up in his second year.

That is rare for that to happen but he was and is still dealing with the collapse and slow recovery of the economy. The newest CBS poll shows him with better #'s on the economy. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/new-poll-economic-uplift/