(41%) among Americans since the end of the second world war. In his second term he has fallen well below that with an approval rating of only 35% in a .Much of this can be explained by voter perceptions of the state of the US economy. The chart below shows the relationship between the percentage of Americans who approve of the president’s handling of his job and consumer confidence. It covers almost 50 years of monthly data with the consumer confidence data coming from surveys conducted at th...

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