May 12, 2006

Approval Ratings for Presidents

To the Editor:

Michael Nelson's comment that "Reagan left office with an approval rating of 68 percent, a level exceeded by no other president in the history of polling" is misleading in the extreme ("Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and the Power of GOPtimism," The Chronicle Review, March 17). Nelson does not name the poll he used, but the Gallup Poll listed Ronald Reagan's approval rating at 63 percent in its poll taken on December 27, 1988. However, this was an anomaly, and it

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