Posted on 04/20/2007 6:04:29 AM PDT by presidio9
Many adults in the United States long for the mandate of a previous head of state, according to a poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN. 53 per cent of respondents miss former U.S. president Bill Clinton now that he has left the White House.
In the survey, 96 per cent of African-American respondents say they miss Clinton, while 50 per cent of White Americans say they are glad he has left.
Clinton—a Democrat and former governor of Arkansas—won the 1992 U.S. presidential election. His campaign was largely based on a condemnation of the economic recession of the early 1990s. In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat to serve two terms as president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, winning 49.2 per cent of all cast ballots and 379 electoral votes. Clinton’s last term in office was tarnished by his admission of an extra-marital affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
During his presidency, Clinton called the racial divide in the U.S. "America’s constant curse." In July 2001, Clinton decided to move into a new office in Harlem, a largely African-American neighbourhood in New York City. The president said on his first day at the office he would make Harlem his home, and explained: "What I’m going to do here is to try to help promote economic opportunity in our back yard, in our country and around the world."
In January, former first lady and current New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton officially launched her bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2008 presidential election.
Polling Data
Which comes closer to your view of Bill Clinton after leaving the White House—you’re glad he has left, or you miss him now that he is gone?
Glad he left All 41% White 50% Black 2%
Miss him now All 53% Whit 43% Black 96%
No opinion All 6% White 7% Black 2%
Source: Opinion Research Corporation / CNN Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,218 American adults—including an oversample of 312 African-Americans—conducted from Apr. 10 to Apr. 12, 2007. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.
I’m telling ya. Those two polls and Rush Limbaugh said that its a very good chance that Hillary will be president. We have to stop that.
I miss him whenever I can.
BARF!
From “miss Bill Clinton” to MRS. Bill Clinton.
Are they out of their minds?
I guess you’re supposed to focus on his face in that photo, but I always end up looking at his hands. They look like they are about 30 years older than his face. That’s what plastic surgery and Photoshop will do for you.
I miss the days when the media wasn't an attack dog for only one side.
How can we miss him when he won’t go away?
...pain".
The Chinese miss him too, especially now that it looks like Taiwan can defend itself.
I miss Craig Livingstone.
“Many adults in the United States . . . *miss* former U.S. president Bill Clinton now that he has left the White House.”
“miss”: as in, a few years ago I had a large, extremely painful boil on the part of me that crosses the fence last.
After it was lanced & healed, I missed it as well.
Where is the “Mega-Barf Alert” on this tripe???
I think I’m gonna gag after seeing this!
My first inclination was “Has he left yet?” He’s been pretty active, feels like he’s still around.
But I actually think these numbers are good. Apparently every black person in the country wishes he was still President (I find that remarkable, but whatever). But overall, with the current republican president at 35% in the opinion polls, it’s pretty telling that only half the people wish Clinton was president again.
After all, his approval numbers were much higher than that when he left office. So even when a majority don’t like the current president, barely a majority think they’d like to have the “popular” previous president back.
To contrast, I bet well over 50% wish Mark Warner was still governor of Virginia, and that would be instead of another Democrat, Tim Kaine.
(Although this week I’m all supportive of Tim Kaine because he took the right tone regarding the Va. Tech shootings, and even chastised people like Jim Moran (not by name) for exploiting tragedy for their own political gain).
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