Showing posts with label presidential approval tracker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential approval tracker. Show all posts

Sunday, December 13, 2009

USA Today Presidential Approval Tracker is Now in FHQ's Side Bar


This is something FHQ should have done when this interactive presidential approval tracker was first posted over the summer. Better late than never, I suppose.


You can now find a link to the USA Today's Interactive Presidential Approval Tracker in the left sidebar. Obama's approval has come up too much in the comments in the time since this summer not to have a permanent and up-front link to this tool. Enjoy and use it wisely.



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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Presidential Approval Tracker

[Click Figure to Track/Compare Approval]

If you haven't seen it already, USA Today has a neat little gadget up today using Gallup data that allows you to track President Obama's approval rating and compare it to past presidents all the way back to Truman (when Gallup's efforts commenced). You can zoom in and out on the time series by moving the handles at the bottom of the graph and you can also compare presidents side by side. This has already been used as fodder among the political class (believe it or not).

This one is worth keeping tabs on as we approach next year's midterm cycle, and obviously, 2012.

[Honestly, someone who has more time than I do now should take the data on the last eleven presidents and use that to project where Obama will end up. That isn't particularly accurate, as things are bound to come up that are unique to Obama's administration, but it would be an interesting baseline, nonetheless.]

Hat tip to Josh Tucker at The Monkey Cage for the link. Tucker, by the way, is calling on those who frequent TMC (read: political scientists) to put Obama's current position and the honeymoon effect generally into context.


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