Posted on 12/06/2010 11:41:04 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Bush job approval rating higher than Obama's
By: James Hohmann December 6, 2010 01:46 PM EST
George W. Bush’s job approval rating as president has spiked to 47 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
That’s one point higher than President Barack Obama’s job approval rating in a poll taken the same week.
This is the first time Gallup asked Americans to retrospectively rate Bush’s job performance. And it was a stunning turnaround from his low point of 25 percent in November 2008. The 47 percent number is 13 points higher than the last Gallup poll taken before Bush left office in 2009 and the highest rating for him since before Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Still, Bush’s 51 percent disapproval rating means he’s only one of two U.S. presidents in the last 50 years whose disapproval exceeds approval. The other is Richard Nixon, who resigned in disgrace 36 years ago and whose approval rating stands at 29 percent.
Obama’s stumbles and dimming public memories of Bush’s shortcomings appear to be helping fuel the more positive reassessment of him. And, in recent weeks, Bush’s tour to promote his new memoir, “Decision Points,” and the groundbreaking of his new library in Dallas have generated mostly positive press.
Bush’s 47 percent approval rating also raises serious questions about the wisdom of the White House’s decision to relentlessly attack him in the months before the Democrats’ historic losses in the midterm elections. The president had kept warning a House Republican majority would return to Bush-era policies. But Obama’s message did little to galvanize the liberal base, and independents flocked to the GOP on Election Day.
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“Miss me yet?” No! But I REALLY miss President Reagan!
Sadly, it’s meaningless now.
Good for Bush, however, I miss Reagan most of all.
I guess the idiots on the left misoverestimated 0bama.
I wouldn't say meaningless. This shift in opinion effectively neuters Obama's argument about "not going back to the days of Bush". How many times did he repeat that phrase on the stump this fall?
It seems pretty clear that people are really starting to miss the "days of Bush". That's not meaningless in the context of contemporary political discourse.
I was just thinking of this. Poll numbers for 0. During Bush it was every single day. It has been a constant Wiki-Leaks for days now.
This too is Bushs’ fault. LOL.
That didn’t take very long, did it?
Mark my words, people will take note of the “miss me yet” pictures, just like we have fond memories of “I like Ike!”
Of course I miss him. Despite the many diagreements with Bush, his results have been better. I remember the days of %5 unemployment...
To freepers, the “days of Bush” means TARP, freddie mac and amnesty. To liberals it means tax cuts and an America that isn’t afraid to protect itself.
Lots of info connecting BO to WikiLeaks here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2637720/posts
Thank you.
God Bless George W Bush, one of the greatest leaders in world history.
It doesn’t neuter his lies...and he’s still president....and he’s still advancing his agenda.
Bush's book, Decision Points, is a very interesting inside view of the Bush presidency. I'd like to hear from some of Bush's most vehement FR critics who have actually read his side of story in Decision Points.
There .. fixed it.
And the longer this poisonous president and tyrant haunts our White House, the higher Pres. Bush's approval numbers will rise. He *is* American to his core.
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