WSJ graph depicting Prez approval ratings since Truman, Just really interesting.

[OrangeEmpire]

Here it is.

At a glance, three things surprise me:
1) How low Truman's approval was by the end of his run.
2) How high HW Bush's approval was after the liberation of Kuwait.
3) Defying the trend, Clinton was actually more popular at the end of his run than at the start.

Also something that's pretty cool, click on the president's name on the left and it "zooms" into their era and associates specific events with that president's peaks and valleys.

Thoughts?

 

[vader]

Wow. Truman had a lower rating than Bush and he had only been in the Korean War 2 years.

Suicide is painless:whistling:

 

[GAVol]

Suicide is painless:whistling:

Somebody ought to write a song about that.

 

[volinbham]

Cool link - you can see the Vietnam impact too - overall ratings are lower afterwards

 

[TennNC]

Very cool. I think you summed it up nicely, OE.

 

[BHAMVOLFAN]

W's graph looks like a great ski slope, fast and all downhill. Whilest still considering myself a Repub (but not a neocon) Bush is probably the worst president in my 50 year life.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

W's graph looks like a great ski slope, fast and all downhill. Whilest still considering myself a Repub (but not a neocon) Bush is probably the worst president in my 50 year life.

Really?

LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Ford......????????????

 

[volinbham]

3) Defying the trend, Clinton was actually more popular at the end of his run than at the start.

Setting policy via polls apparently works

 

[CSpindizzy]

Setting policy via polls apparently works

Not all the time. See everyone else for that proof.

 

[rwemyss]

Carter stands out.