re: #191 LotharBot

By 2006, Bush had exhausted every bit of his political capital. He was already a lame duck president, and he seemed to know it. After six years in office, and three years of the relatively unpopular Iraq war, and after he’d alienated much of the conservative base with his domestic spending, he simply had no coattails to ride.

Obama is barely a year into his presidency. He’s still got a decent approval rating and he’s still well liked. It’s really shocking that he doesn’t seem to have coattails.

what decent approval ratting?