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Here’s One Poll The Press Doesn’t Want You To See

by JOHN MERLINE As President Obama left the White House, the mainstream press was falling over itself proclaiming how popular he was. “Obama leaving office on a very high note,” was a typical headline. Yet despite the media’s fixation with polls, the press completely buried one of the more newsworthy poll findings — a Gallup report that came out last Friday, which took a final look at the President Obama’s popularity over his eight years in office. That poll found that Obama’s overall average approval rating was a dismal 47.9%. Only three presidents scored worse than Obama since Gallup started… View Article