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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
It was funny when I was in Washington for the last few days, I was sitting in a bar chatting with people and the overwhelming sentiment by the people there was that Obama was the least bad of the two candidates, its not like people have any faith in the guy, they are as one guy said "riding out the next four years and hoping that somebody good runs in the next election"
I will note that most of the Yanks that I talked to are feeling a little more optimistic then they were last year, but still feel that at some point in the next four years that their economy is going to tumble over the edge.
BTW if anyone is ever in Reston, VA go to Passion Fish, one of the best meals that I've ever had in a restaurant.
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The "people in a bar" method is interesting, but recent polls are telling a bit of a different story. Obama's job approval is now at 55%, which is pretty high for a President in his 5th year in office, and very high relative to his approval ratings for most of 2012, which were way underwated. Pew research also has his personal favourability at just under 60%.
There's probably a honeymoon effect, but Americans like Obama right now way more than they liked Bush after his re-election, and better than they've liked him since May of 2009, which is when his REAL honeymoon started to wane.