National Journal: President’s Poll Numbers May Be Bad, But He Not A One-Termer Yet

President Obama‘s approval ratings may have fallen in the latest Gallup poll, but National Journal‘s Beth Reinhard and Brian McGill say Obama should hang on to hope. “Another president who suffered a recession early in his first term also had, at the same point in his first term, an approval rating hovering in the low 40 percent range — and President Reagan went on to win a landslide reelection victory the following year,” Reinhard and McGill write, warning that GOP excitement over the president’s weakness may be premature. “First of all, the approval ratings for Congress and the tea party are falling further faster. (Obama may want to take a cue from Harry Truman, who famously ran against the “Do-Nothing Congress.’’)”

The President, the authors argue, will continue to gain strength from a wide-open GOP field of candidates and the lack of a clear, strong frontrunner. That, of course, could change.

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