So the general media theme seems to be that Obama’s first 100 days has been spectacular and that we all love him. I think the Washington Post sort of put it into perspective though
According to Gallup’s April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969. The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86. Mr. Obama’s current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises.
So, to get a lower approval rating (of 1%) the president would need to kill a bunch of people who didn’t want to pay taxes and follow through on his reversal of the ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ policy. This is actually good news in a way as it means that people are not quite as in the dark about what the president’s (and the democratic congress’s) agenda is shaping up to be as cable news and the Internet are much bigger factors now than they were back then. Following the Bill Clinton line (and note, I am not any sort of political analyst, I simply analyse computer systems), the Democrats lost the mid-term elections in 1994 (losing control of the congress).
If history repeats itself even a bit, maybe, just maybe, we can pull back from the abyss.
