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Reagan and Obama

By The Daily Dish

Nov 20 2009, 3:05 AM ET

USA Today's interactive graph of presidential approval ratings over the decades is great fun. What you see is that the president whose early ratings most closely match Obama's is Reagan. Within a few months, Reagan was at 35 percent approval and 59 percent disapproval. (Hat tip: Taegan.)



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