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Originally Posted by NCB
Job approval #s and administration fatigue are two very different things. Fatigue occurs with all two term admins.
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I agree with NCB. Climb back onto your chair.
What we're seeing in Bush's approval rating is WAY more than garden variety administration fatigue. People were ready for something new by the end of Clinton's term (and Reagan's, for that matter). That's not what this is. This is a massive rejection by the majority of Americans of what Bush and his administration have been up to. Bush's approval rating has been lower longer than any US president (don't have a source on that--heard it on the news somewhere). This is a LOUD communication from America that they don't like Bush's policies.
I disagree with NCB's assertion a few posts back that it's "very much like in Clinton's second term". (I'm actually not clear, NCB, why you brought up administration fatigue in the first place, if what we're talking about is approval numbers, which are very different from that.) It's not at all like Clinton's second term. Clinton weathered a few bad-rating storms, but he came out strong and popular. Bush is on track to be our most generally disapproved-of ex-president.