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Here's what that data looked like:
https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx
Dubya's plot arc is WILD.
I remember when dubya was in charge it was a global meme how stupid he was. I heard some clip of a speech he made a while back and god damn did he sound coherent and respectable compared to what we have today.
The bar has lowered so much its unbelievable.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.' Fool me—you can't get fooled again."
There's plenty more where that came from
I remember seeing a bobble head of Bush that would sing "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen"
It was absolutely ridiculous that he said that. Full stop. No politician should mess that up that badly.
But, I've heard people theorizing that, somewhere in the middle of the sentence, he realized that telling the world "fool me twice, shame on me" would have been a disastrous PR nightmare, so he tried to bail out.
Oh it's not even the worst one on the page
American unity was very, very high after 9/11.
And then his approval spiralled to historic lows throughout the rest of his term...
Kind of refreshing to see Trump is the only president to never have a positive approval rating.
Really says something about the country that only Truman and Bush 1 and 2 have gotten to around 90%
Yeah everyone really rallies around a president when the country is attached. Can't help but feel like it's why Trump is picking fights constantly. I'm sure he would love nothing more than to have Iran or another country to kill some US civilians.
Wow, that graph really tells a lot about the US population's political leanings.