The 65 percentage-point gap between Democrats' (88%) and Republicans' (23%) average job approval ratings for Barack Obama is easily the largest for any president in his first year in office, greatly exceeding the prior high of 52 points for Bill Clinton.
...Thus, the extraordinary level of polarization in Obama's first year in office is a combination of declining support from Republicans coupled with high and sustained approval from Democrats. In fact, his 88% average approval rating from his own party's supporters is exceeded only by George W. Bush's 92% during Bush's first year in office. Obama's 23% approval among supporters of the opposition party matches Bill Clinton's for the lowest for a first-year president. But Clinton was less popular among Democrats than Obama has been to date, making Obama's ratings more polarized.
Gallup notes that Obama campaigned on "seeking to unite the country." The rhetoric doesn't match the reality, and the nation sees it. Obama has ignored the nation's disapproval over Obamacare, and said stuff like, "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."
"That One" also told Diane Sawyer at ABC the following:
"I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."Well, you're on your way to partially achieving that goal, except you're going to be remembered as a President who was so bad he made Jimmy Carter look great.
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