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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 January 2016 09:24:10PM 2 points [-]

My link also gives peak disapproval ratings. Obama is perfectly normal. W is an outlier, with a peak disapproval of 71%. Other than him, all the presidents since Ford had a peak disapproval of 54-60%. (Ford didn't have time to do anything to merit disapproval.) Obama is exactly in the middle. (Average disapproval is probably a better metric, though.)

Comment author: knb 13 January 2016 09:57:15PM 0 points [-]

Ford didn't have time to do anything to merit disapproval

Anecdotally, a lot of the anger came from him pardoning Nixon.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 January 2016 11:15:23PM *  0 points [-]

Sure, his ratings (archive) crashed from 71/3 on inauguration to 50/28 after the pardon, but that just took him to a fairly normal level.

Comment author: Brillyant 13 January 2016 09:33:57PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. Good info. Thank you.

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