Obama's Fourth Year in Office Ties as Most Polarized Ever

Obama's Fourth Year in Office Ties as Most Polarized Ever

Seventy-six-point gap in party ratings of Obama ties Bush in 2004-2005

by Jeffrey M. Jones

PRINCETON, NJ -- During his fourth year in office, an average of 86% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans approved of the job Barack Obama did as president. That 76-percentage-point gap ties George W. Bush's fourth year as the most polarized years in Gallup records.