Anyone Surprised with this?
If you ARE?
Where have you been for the last year and half?
As Barack Obama opens his presidential center, he does so as by far the most popular living president.
Obama is viewed positively by 57% of Americans, a new CNN pollconducted by SSRS finds, far surpassing the ratings for his two Oval Office successors. Only 34% of the public offers a favorable opinion of President Donald Trump, with former President Joe Biden’s favorability trailing at just 30%.
Obama’s standing among political independents is more than twice as high as either Biden’s or Trump’s. Unlike Biden or Trump, he also has the near-universal backing of his own party.
And though only about one-fifth of Republicans take a positive view of Obama, that’s still far above the share of Americans willing to cross party lines in support of his successors.
Other members of the presidents’ club see their ratings fall somewhere between Obama on the one side and Biden and Trump on the other. Views of George W. Bush tilt narrowly positive, 42% favorable to 33% unfavorable, while opinions of Bill Clinton are about equally split….
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Obama, who saw mixed ratings during much of his second term, has maintained broad popularity in the years since leaving office…
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The poll highlights a generational shift in Americans’ historical memory: An increasing share of the public came of age politically in the Trumpian era of politics, with little or no memory of the presidents before Obama. More than 4 in 10 adults younger than 30 say they don’t have any opinion of Bush or Clinton, respectively. (Surveys conducted over the past five years, unlike earlier polls, also gave respondents an explicit option to say they’d heard of somebody but didn’t have an opinion of them.)….
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Asked in an open-ended question which president they most admire, Americans largely favored relatively recent names: 30% name Obama, 19% Trump, 9% Abraham Lincoln, 9% Ronald Reagan, 6% John F. Kennedy, and 5% George Washington…..
Note….
If someone shows this to Donald Trump?
He’s gonna get REAL HURT and ANGRY….
Obama in from of him AGAIN….
image….Photo illustration by Alberto Mier/CNN/Getty
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