Comments on: Obama, Approval Ratings and Presidential Honeymoons http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/01/25/94/ A NonPartisan Analysis of Presidential Politics Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:45:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Conor Shaw http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/01/25/94/comment-page-1/#comment-1854 Conor Shaw Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:37:42 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/?p=94#comment-1854 The media sometimes gets this right. CNN’s political analysis is by no means my favorite, but Roland Martin, among others, is trying to ditch the “100 days” mania (See link).

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/28/martin.hundred.days/index.html

Gallup also has an article up presenting the same initial poll numbers that you’ve listed in your blog, along with additional polls that occurred 100 days after each of the modern presidents took office.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113923/History-Foretells-Obama-First-Job-Approval-Rating.aspx

Interestingly, thes polls show that if anything, most presidents become more popular after about 100 days in office. Only Carter and Clinton lost support, and in each case, the difference was only – 3 percentage points.

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