Obama 2nd year most polarizing in history since Dwight Eisenhower-Gallup

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2/4/11, "Obama's Approval Ratings More Polarized in Year 2 Than Year 1," Gallup Poll

"President Barack Obama's job approval ratings were even more polarized during his second year in office than during his first,

• when he registered the most polarized ratings for a first-year president.

An average of 81% of Democrats and 13% of Republicans approved of the job Obama was doing as president during his second year. That 68-point gap in party ratings is

• up from 65 points in his first year and is

• easily the most polarized second year for a president since Dwight Eisenhower."

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2/4/11, "Poll reveals striking divide on Obama," Politico, Jennifer Epstein

"President Barack Obama’s approval ratings during his second year in office were the most partisan and polarized

• they’ve ever been at two years into a presidency,

with a nearly 70 percentage point gap between how Republicans and Democrats evaluated his performance."...

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2/4/11, "Obama the Polarizer," American Thinker,

"More Americans are characterizing themselves as independents and Republicans, and this does not bode well for Barack Obama come 2012."

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Note to John Avlon who keeps whining about "divided government"-

• There is one professional "divider." According to Gallup and many others, it's Obama. Since he has all the power, why not whine to him? (Probably because there's no money in it). ed.

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