Clinton and Elder Bush Are America's Favorite Living Ex-Presidents
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Bill Clinton and the elder George Bush are the most popular living ex-presidents, according to a Gallup Poll released today. Both are way ahead of the current officeholder, Barack Obama, who comes in last, trailing his predecessor, George W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter.
“Americans typically rate presidents more positively after they leave office, so Obama’s relatively worse standing than his predecessors is not surprising,” Jeffrey Jones of Gallup Politics says in an article accompanying the poll’s release. The president still has something to worry about, though, because “the current poll represents Obama’s worst favorable rating to date.”