highwaystar101 said:
Let's face it went downhill from there fast
That's a very small sample size, I thought these polls used a far larger sample size. ... Anyway, I think the approval ratings are so low due to his slow action sorting out Afghanistan and withdrawing from Iraq. During his campaign a major point he sold himself on was withdrawing from Iraq and focusing on Afghanistan, with eventual aim to pull troops out when Afghanistan is more stable *sniggers*. It's taken him almost a year just to outline the plans. I think people are growing tired of how he is handling this, he's made the war go even more stale if anything, there doesn't seem to be any major progress. I think the drop in approval was expected on this point alone. ... Halogamer, I'm not going to lie, I don't think I annoyed you enough in that post because for the most part I agreed with you; So I'm going to post pictures of some famous communists/socialists
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Unfortunately, American pollisters do not use a sample size much over 1,000 people.
However, we have a great aggregate at Real Clear Politics that shows the data in great terms:
This is based on aggregating every poll available within a period of time (usually 2-3 weeks).
At any rate, his decline really comes down to hope vs. results. Everyone hoped he would be a good president. Unfortunately, he's been either neutral (keeping the status quo) or bad (federal deficit). Not a very good first year for a president.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
