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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The era of 50+ per cent approval ratings for presidents and presidential candidates is over. Welcome to affective polarization and hyper-partisanship. Obama and Romney are decent people, and half of Americans still hated them.
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Obama had a 62% favorability rating during his re-election and Romney was 55%. That's vastly different than the ~40% ratings the current candidates have.
And Biden had a ~55% approval rating early in his term, so I don't really buy the notion that a higher approval rating is somehow impossible in the current climate. He's just an unpopular President.