With 69 percent approving of his job performance, Obama’s rating is about the average for postwar presidents at the 100-day mark. Obama’s support among Republicans, with 36 percent approving, is similar to Bush’s showing among Democrats in late April 2001, and at that time Bush’s rating was a touch lower among independents than Obama’s is today (62 percent then compared with 67 percent). In April 1993, Clinton had somewhat less backing from the GOP (26 percent of Republicans approved) and from the middle (independents were at 58 percent).
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