• [deleted]@lemmy.world
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    Every other president had an increase. Every single one. Not even breaking a record, creating a new one by failing twice.

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    And yet he has no less power… In fact I bet he has more than any other on the list thanks to the supreme court.

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      Your system is so fucked. It took the Tories less time than it takes for a lettuce to go bad to oust the mad woman in the attic when she fucked our economy.

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        It wouldn’t have been as easy if the Tories were in on it. The system isn’t great, but it’s only fucked because everyone involved in it is a fucking demon.

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      In general the president has been gaining power over the past 50 years as congress has become more gridlocked and inept.

      Now we’re at the point where a president can bomb a foreign country backed only by the approval of his buddies in a signal chat.

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    But like, a majority decided it would be a good idea to let him have a go at breaking that record. You thought, maybe he’d be a good choice once, rapidly discovered that was not the case and then decided to try AGAIN!?

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    Interesting that it is a very clear downward trend. Hopefully this is a sign that more and more people realize the two parties are failing them and are ready for a shake up.

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      I was actually about to make a comment that I think this is related to biased media, the 24/7 news cycle, and the need for outrage to get eyeballs for ad revenue.

      In the past I think people had their amygdalas left alone for the most part, at least for anything that wasn’t “be afraid of communism!!”

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    What’s up with Truman, Kennedy and all those high numbers?

    Even if we assume Truman achieved 100% approval in the first 100 days, that’d mean his initial approval was 16%.

    I am going to be a bit skeptical of this.

    Mainly because I know that Kennedy was elected and not grandfathered in like truman and there’s no way he was only elected with only 28%

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      Net approval at a point in time is the percentage of voters who approve minus the percentage of voters who disapprove, it’s not a delta from an earlier reading.

      For net approval to be negative, more people must disapprove then approve.

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      I don’t think this is initial approval minus approval 100 days in, I think it’s approval 100 days in minus disapproval 100 days in.

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    bush being like “only 41? pff hey condi toss that pdb in the trash and pretend you didn’t see it”

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    Truman +84 yeah sure ok. EDIT: sorry I misunderstood. I thought it was the delta after 100 days vs initial.

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      I can’t imagine anything significant that happened during Truman’s first few months that would make his approval rating go up /s

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        I know it would jump but how was it that low to begin with? That’s, like, insanely low it must have been below 10% Edit: sorry I misunderstood the chart

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        Yeah but that would imply his approval was like 10 beforehand…no way was it that low Edit: sorry I misunderstood the chart