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George W. Bush registered a 90% job approval rating (the highest in Gallup's tracking) shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. [2] Harry S. Truman registered a 22% job approval rating (the lowest in Gallup's tracking) in a survey conducted February 9–14, 1952. [3]
The approval ratings of Bush ranged from a record high to a record low. Bush began his presidency with ratings near 60%. [3] In the time of national crisis following the September 11 attacks, polls showed approval ratings greater than 85%, peaking in at 92%, [4] as well as a steady 80–90% approval for about four months after the attacks. [5]
Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
At the 100-day mark Trump's predecessor former President Barack Obama had a 65 percent approval rating. Former President George W. Bush before him sat at 53 percent 100 days into his first term ...
Before that, the record low for initial net approval rating was set by former President George W. Bush in 2001, at +28 points. However, former President Joe Biden started his first term at +22 in ...
Biden leaves office with a 41% job approval rating, just one point above his record low. ... but higher than former President George W. Bush’s 34% approval at the end of his ... His approval ...
Bush's approval rating surged to 74 percent at the beginning of the Iraq War, up 19 points from his pre-war rating of 55 percent. [354] Bush's approval rating went below the 50 percent mark in AP-Ipsos polling in December 2004. [355] Thereafter, his approval ratings and approval of his handling of domestic and foreign policy issues steadily ...
However, his approval ratings sharply declined over the years, reaching a low of 25% in the Gallup Poll in 2008 amid the fallout from the global financial crisis, marking the third-lowest approval rating for any president in the modern era. Bush began his presidency with ratings near fifty percent. [189]