Shooting Gives Reagan Boost In Popularity
I was saying to my wife at dinner that this Covid scare for Trump could actually lead to greater interest in and sympathy for him. Then I saw this at FR:
Shooting Gives Reagan Boost In Popularity
The Washington Post ^ | April 2, 1981 | Barry Sussman
The burst of gunfire that injured President Reagan Monday sparked an instantaneous and sharp rise in his popular standing with the American people, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The president was already comparatively high in popularity, but his approval rating showed a climb of 11 percentage points from Sunday , the Tuesday, when the news Post-ABC poll was conducted.
While it is common for a president's popularity rating to increase at a time of national crisis, the rise for Reagan appears as sharp as any yet recorded. Reagan's new surge came at a time when the president seemed to be on something of a downward swing in popularity as measured by previous polls.
The new Post-ABC poll was conducted Tuesday night, with 505 people interviewed by telephone nationwide. In the survey, 73 percent of those interviewed said they approve of Reagan's performance as president, 16 percent said they disapprove, and 11 percent expressed no opinion. Because a relatively small number of people were interviewed, the poll has a theoretical margin of error of about 5 percent in either direction.
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