In fact, the 9-point drop in the most recent quarter is the largest Gallup has ever measured for an elected president between the second and third quarters of his term, dating back to 1953. One president who was not elected to his first term — Harry Truman — had a 13-point drop between his second and third quarters in office in 1945 and 1946…
More generally, Obama’s 9-point slide between quarters ranks as one of the steepest for a president at any point in his first year in office. The highest is Truman’s 19-point drop between his third and fourth quarters, followed by a 15-point drop for Gerald Ford between his first and second quarters. The largest for an elected president in his first year is Bill Clinton’s 11-point slide between his first and second quarters.
The depressing thing is that both Truman and Clinton were re-elected to second terms, and Ford came within a whisker of re-election. Let’s hope we don’t have a replay of that outcome with The Socialist in Chief.
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The path most likely to result in one term for Obama is leaving Democrats with majorities in both houses.
I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Or, alternative: Leave Dems with razor thin majorities they can’t use to ride roughshod over the opposition in implementing Obama’s program.
Result: Gridlock plus an Obama/Dem fail, because Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are still nominally in charge.
Works for me.