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Gallop Jan 20, 2017
Obama Averages 47.9% Job Approval as President
Barack Obama's average job approval rating during his eight years in office, 47.9%, ranks among the lowest in Gallup history.
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8 years of fighting racists and bigots...yet he still hovered around 50%?!
Pretty damned impressive!
More importantly, time gives a better perspective...and he's well on the way to being TOP 10.
How Obama’s Rising Approval Ratings Compare With Recent Presidents’ | FiveThirtyEight
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What’s more important, however, is that Obama’s rising approval rating may give us an early indication of how he will be viewed by future Americans and historians.
Of the four previous modern presidents who finished their presidencies with a majority job approval rating, two rank among the top 10 presidents according to our aggregated scholarly rankings of presidents, and the third, Bill Clinton, is just on the edge, ranked 13th. (Obama ranks 18th of 43.)
There’s still time in Obama’s last term for the numbers to shift, but if he retains his majority approval rating, that will be an accomplishment.
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PS. Bush slunk out of office...
with a 22% approval rating. 
