Read that headline again and consider this: Obama was, supposedly, wildly popular (60% and more) according to all 2008 pre-November polling, yet he won election with just 53% of the vote. In 2012, he saw 4 million Americans move away from the Democrat Party. His Gallup "approval" numbers came in at 57% when, in fact, his 2012 November election numbers saw him at 51%, nearly identical to GW Bush's 2004 reelection number. Understand that Gallup, in the week before the 2004 election, had Bush 43 at 48 % approval and loosing the election. Gallup was consistently higher than reality with Obama and lower than reality with Bush.
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