Obama polling

I keep hearing that despite all President Clueless remains "personally popular."

With the fawning media, perhaps. Who else? (see below)

On the merits, his job approval should be near zero. What's there to approve of? Show me the list, somebody. The brightest spot, ironically, is military policy, which has been to leave Bush's policies in place, policies that Obama, Biden, Reid, and Pelosi all railed against and declared to be a failure when Bush was running things, more than once shamefully declaring Iraq to be "lost." But let's see how Obama's one innovation, withdrawal by timetable, works out.

Byron

Obama's fifth-quarter Gallup approval slips, among worst 3 of modern presidents

A new Gallup Poll just out finds Obama's fifth quarterly poll score (Jan. 20-April 19) to be 48.8% job approval, down from his fourth quarter approval of 50.8%. The average fifth quarterly score since Gallup began tracking it in 1945 is 54%.

But by far the best fifth-quarter presidential job approval in modern history was George W. Bush's 79.5%.

By this point in his presidency Bill Clinton had slipped to 52.1% approval en route to such a disastrous first midterm election that the Democratic Party lost control of both houses of Congress to the Republicans for the first time in four decades.