[ladyinred]

LOL, although I agree with you, the polls for Clinton were high all of the time for some reason, although not as high as President Bush! Didn't he leave office with the highest approval rating of any President or some such unbelievable thing?
President Bush has always rated high with me, he has exceeded even my expectations however as a leader! Good for him!
Although he says he doesn't care about polls, I sure do, as they are a necessary evil in our country now.

[BlueAngel]

I think what was always high, was Clinton's job approval rating. It never seemed to change because the economy was good. But his personal rating was always very low.

[AlGone2001]

President Bush has always rated high with me, he has exceeded even my expectations however as a leader!

I admit that I am surprised as well. I am so proud of him, and it's been 20-years since I was so proud to be an American. He has the fighting spirit, and he's such a gentleman on top of that.

[okie01]

"the polls for Clinton were high all of the time for some reason, although not as high as President Bush! Didn't he leave office with the highest approval rating of any President or some such unbelievable thing?"

Note that, until Clinton, there was never any such thing as Presidential polls for a.) "job approval" and b.) "personal approval". Nor have there been any such bifurcated poll results since.

I suspect that, as Clinton's difficulties mounted, the media who commission these polls asked that the question be split in half, so as allow the public to vent its spleen in one answer and respond with a "well, duh, O.K., I guess" on the other.

After first focus group testing the concept, of course...

[concerned about politics]

the polls for Clinton were high all of the time for some reason, although not as high as President Bush! Didn't he leave office with the highest approval rating of any President or some such unbelievable thing?

Thanks to the Reagan tax cut, the rapist got to ride more than Monica. He rode the Reagan golden economy into recession in the business sector by 1998.
He blew the whole thing.
Some people, hopefully not many now, thought it had something to do with the X42, but I believe the myth is quickly fading.
Bush is now the KING! of POLLS!

[GVnana]

Didn't he (Clinton) leave office with the highest approval rating of any President

No. The highest rating since the beginning of presidential polling was Bush Sr. during the Gulf War. Clinton never got close (although the media would have you believe he did). No one has ever hit the rating of GW.