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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (47468)	12/9/2010 5:55:46 PM
From: Peter Dierks	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I can see some comparison between Reagan and Obama too: One was s legal citizen, the other appears to be a usurper. One sought to raise up America the later one seeks to knock her down to size. One loved our country while the other hates what our Founding Fathers sought to create; Obama said he could destroy the Constitution if he and a few like minded people were on the SCOTUS. One was a great man who sought the office to give back from the other sought it in the hopes the office would make him great. etc.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (47468)	1/4/2011 5:43:10 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Polls aren't everything, or even the most important thing. Also polls showing a similar downward trend, when the previous example reversed the trend dramatically, hardly show that the later example is likely to do so. Also the early trend for Jimmy Carter was similar to the early trend for Obama, its not just Reagan and Obama who have similar lines. If your only going by polling trends Obama might be Carter just as easily as Reagan. (BTW its not a universal trend for all modern presidents, the early part of the trend line for those three look similar, but all the other post WWII presidents have very different looking lines.) Edit - In fact looking at the lines again, Obama's is closer to Carter's than to Reagan's. Reagan starts off at a lower point, and then increases before declining (before later increasing again by a lot, but after the point in his presidency where we are now with Obama)