Who Holds the Presidential Approval Record?

[Rob Lister]

Criteria: While in office, ...since 1950...what president holds...

1) The highest approval rating for any given snapshop.
2) The second highest (the third, forth, etc if you feel froggy)
3) the best overall average (bush II would be excluded due to criteria)
4) the worst in terms of snapshop
5) the worst in terms of overall.

[shemp]

WTF is a "snapshop"?

[Manny]

WTF is a "snapshop"?It's when Carson Kressley takes you out to buy new clothes, silly!

[Rob Lister]

WTF is a "snapshop"?

A snapshot is any specific point in time.

[hgc]

A snapshot is any specific point in time.Sometimes called snapshot.

[BPSCG]

I believe the answer to the question in the OP is "Saddam Hussein." He received 100% of the vote in the 2002 presidential election.

Second is Kim Jong Il, with 99.9%.

I don't know how popular the two gentlemen are today (I understand Saddam's popularity has slipped significantly), but the snapshot taken on those election days were impressive indeed.

[Rob Lister]

Actually, I heard via a radio report that...

Bush II has the highest snapshot (>90%)
Bush I has the second highest (>89%)
Carter might have been third or forth.
I suspect Clinton has the best overall average but that wasn't reported.

[andyandy]

Isn't GWB on course for the double?

The highest (post 9-11) and the lowest (well....sometime before he leaves office...)

[Rob Lister]

Isn't GWB on course for the double?

The highest (post 9-11) and the lowest (well....sometime before he leaves office...)

Don't know. His numbers are pretty low but so too were nixon's and carter's.

[shemp]

A snapshot is any specific point in time.

Dumbkopf, I know what a "snapshot" is! But what is a "snapshop"?

[Rob Lister]

Dumbkopf, I know what a "snapshot" is! But what is a "snapshop"?

Oh...sorry. A snapshop has two definitions.

1) a typo for snapshot replicated by a drunken, stoned, idiot or...
2) a place to buy snaps.

[a_unique_person]

Actually, I heard via a radio report that...

Bush II has the highest snapshot (>90%)
Bush I has the second highest (>89%)
Carter might have been third or forth.
I suspect Clinton has the best overall average but that wasn't reported.

Purely the 9/11 effect. Mario Cuomo took advantage of it too.

[Rob Lister]

Purely the 9/11 effect. Mario Cuomo took advantage of it too.

This is an apolitical thread. The reason doesn't matter.

[Manny]

This is an apolitical thread. The reason doesn't matter.That said, I have to admit that I'm more than a teensy bit curious how Mario Cuomo "took advantage" of 9-11.

[Mycroft]

2) a place to buy snaps.

Hmmm...snaps.

[rdaneel]

That said, I have to admit that I'm more than a teensy bit curious how Mario Cuomo "took advantage" of 9-11.

I think he means that other Mayor who was really famous and popular for a time after 9/11. I don't remember his name now though.

[Rob Lister]

Rudy. May run for Pres. May even get the Rep nod. Unlikely to win.

[kalen]

I've got some vinyl with JFK's most famous speeches. That's a record!

[Cleon]

Rudy. May run for Pres. May even get the Rep nod. Unlikely to win.

Unlikely to get the nom, though they'll probably trot him out to give a speech during the GOP convention. Lately he seems to have been working as a political shill, giving endorsements where asked. Recently he publicly endorsed former Pat Robertson right-hand-man/spotter Ralph Reed in Georgia, which made Giuliani look like an idiot; even the conservative Republicans don't trust Reed at this point. (Stories were coming out about Reed's corruption for several years; then, to nobody's surprise, it turned out that he was up to his eyebrows in the Abramoff scandal.)

[BPSCG]

I think he means that other Mayor ...Cuomo was never mayor of anything. And he wasn't governor of anything on September 11, 2001.

Have to cut a_u_p a little slack here. He knows a lot more about U.S. politics than I know about Australian, even if most of what he knows is wrong...:p

[Upchurch]

Cuomo was never mayor of anything. And he wasn't governor of anything on September 11, 2001.Mayor of New York, Governor of New York. You say "tomato", I say "potato".

;)

[Tony]

Unlikely to get the nom, though they'll probably trot him out to give a speech during the GOP convention. Lately he seems to have been working as a political shill, giving endorsements where asked. Recently he publicly endorsed former Pat Robertson right-hand-man/spotter Ralph Reed in Georgia, which made Giuliani look like an idiot; even the conservative Republicans don't trust Reed at this point. (Stories were coming out about Reed's corruption for several years; then, to nobody's surprise, it turned out that he was up to his eyebrows in the Abramoff scandal.)

Speaking of Ralph Reed. How is he doing in the race out there?

[bangdazap]

It seems Kennedy had the highest average approval rating:
John F. Kennedy: 70%
Dwight Eisenhower : 65%
George Bush: 63%
Ronald Reagan: 57%
Bill Clinton: 57%
Lyndon Johnson: 56%
Richard Nixon: 49%
Gerald Ford: 48%
Jimmy Carter: 46%

From: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/poll_clintonlegacy010117.html

From the graph on page 8 of this page: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/perspective.pdf it seems Bush II had the highest single point approval rating followed by Bush I. Nixon seems to have had the lowest snapshop approval rating.

[tom m.]

thanks bangdazap.. very interesting stats. one thing that shocks me.. GEORGE BUSH - 63%? You do know the election was fixed right?