Can't say I'm all that surprised. According to a recent Gallup survey, 47 percent of Americans retroactively approve of George W. Bush's eight years in office. Barack Obama's numbers currently sit at 46 percent. The same survey now showed that Americans greatly approve of the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, are feeling better about the George H. W. Bush years and have an even lesser opinion of Jimmy Carter than before.
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