It was supposed to be a hugely popular idea, but within a couple of months, it just flipped: going from an 80 percent approval rating to an 80 percent disapproval rating.
He has a commanding 23-point lead in the polls and a healthy 69 percent approval rating.
Despite the drop, a 59 percent approval rating is high for most sitting governors.
He was obviously taking advantage of President Bush's widespread unpopularity compared to his own 70 percent approval rating in Russian.
By contrast, in a poll done Thursday to Saturday, before news of the capture broke, Bush's approval was 54 percent, with 43 percent expressing disapproval.
And no wonder people give Congress 10 percent approval ratings, right?
That's still significantly better than Vice President Al Gore's 50 percent approval rating, and far higher than Republican candidate John McCain or Democratic candidate Bill Bradley register.
Facebook employees gave Mark Zuckerberg a 99 percent approval rating for his role as CEO of the popular social networking site, displacing 2012 leader Apple CEO Tim Cook, who fell to 18th place, according to a new survey of employees by career site Glassdoor.
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For the French president, with record low approval ratings of 20 percent, much is riding on his speech.
Her public approval rating was 73 percent in a December poll by CNN and she'd like to keep it there.
There's one big difference: In 1996, Clinton was on his way to re-election with a job approval rating of 58 percent.
The same Nikkei Quick poll registered a sharp jump, to 59.6 percent popular approval rating for the Noda cabinet following the TPP announcement.
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Clinton saw an overall increase in his approval rating from 62 percent in mid-January to 71 percent after the State of the Union speech.
Some have even broken through the 70 percent mark, and one truly stunning result compiled by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal (published Feb. 9) found Clinton's job approval rating at 79 percent.
As for Clinton, his approval rating is at 62 percent -- exactly where it was before the market's gyrations.
President Bush's approval rating, the 23 percent is below Nixon's lowest.
Palin currently has an approval rating of over 80 percent in her home state, in part due to her willingness to take on corruption in the Alaska GOP.
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Ronald Reagan's approval rating stayed over 50 percent until November of his first year in office, but once it slipped below that mark, it stayed under 50 percent for two years.
With public opinion polls indicating a 77 percent rate of approval, President Abbas first proposed a referendum among Palestinians on the prisoners' proposal, and then both Hamas and Fatah accepted its provisions.
One encouraging sign is NFIP recently won approval to raise premiums 25 percent a year over the next five years, but rising costs for consumers are certainly cold comfort, and critics say far more still needs to be done.
Over time, Swift's approval rating has risen from 20 percent into the 40 percent range.
After just 11 months in office, Obama's approval ratings have sunk to 50 percent.
Berlusconi remains popular among the Italian public, however, with his approval ratings remaining well over 50 percent.
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Those figures mirror Bush's job approval among voters, with 58 percent saying they disapprove of the president's performance and 41 percent approving.
In Ohio, Governor John Kasich, who snuck by the incumbent Democratic governor Ted Strickland in a real squeaker, is seeing his public approval numbers down in the 30 percent range.
President Bush's overall approval rating rose slightly, to 53 percent from 51 percent in the prior survey.
Arguably Colombia's most popular President in its 200 year history -- in nearly eight years, his approval rating has never fallen below 60 percent, peaked as recently as July 2008 in the low 80s and is currently hovering around 75 percent - Mr. Uribe's hope to serve an unprecedented third term was quashed by the country's Constitutional Court in February.
"The GOP would point out -- and they would be right -- that the approval rating in the autumn before an election is not a good predictor of how the election will turn out, " said CNN poll analyst Keating Holland, pointing out that Ronald Reagan's approval rating was in the 40-percent range in fall 1983, a year before he was re-elected in a landslide.
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