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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 4449412" data-attributes="member: 4805">History reveals patterns. During a crisis, Americans typically rally around the flag — and their president. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, George H.W. Bush’s approval soared 30 percentage points in six weeks to 89%. His son’s rocketed 40 points — in 10 days to 90% — following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Numbers like these — clearly bipartisan and nearly unanimous — tell us that while Americans are always hungry for leadership, that hunger is never so great as when it counts most: When lives are on the line, when there has been a shock to the system, when we are scared and need reassurance that all will be OK. Yet such approval has eluded President Trump. Two poll of polls — Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight — show his overall approval at <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html?mod=article_inline" target="_blank">45.2%</a> and <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?mod=article_inline" target="_blank">44.3%</a>, respectively, right about where they were before the you-know-what hit the fan earlier this year.<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-is-odd-man-out-as-approval-ratings-soar-for-world-leaders-handling-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-04-14?mod=article_inline" target="_blank">Trump is odd man out as approval ratings soar for world leaders’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jones, post: 4449412, member: 4805"] [I]History reveals patterns. During a crisis, Americans typically rally around the flag — and their president. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, George H.W. Bush’s approval soared 30 percentage points in six weeks to 89%. His son’s rocketed 40 points — in 10 days to 90% — following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Numbers like these — clearly bipartisan and nearly unanimous — tell us that while Americans are always hungry for leadership, that hunger is never so great as when it counts most: When lives are on the line, when there has been a shock to the system, when we are scared and need reassurance that all will be OK. Yet such approval has eluded President Trump. Two poll of polls — Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight — show his overall approval at [URL='https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html?mod=article_inline']45.2%[/URL] and [URL='https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?mod=article_inline']44.3%[/URL], respectively, right about where they were before the you-know-what hit the fan earlier this year.[/I] [B] [URL='https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-is-odd-man-out-as-approval-ratings-soar-for-world-leaders-handling-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-04-14?mod=article_inline']Trump is odd man out as approval ratings soar for world leaders’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic[/URL][/B] [/QUOTE]

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