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 reading that right now.
Opinion Research Corporation is an entity of CNN (Clinton News Network).
Is any further explanation needed?
Anyone who states that they miss Bill Clinton has to be an absolute Nut! I just wish he and his broom jockey wife would fade away never to be heard from or about again.
” The public is a jackass”
Mark Twain
I don’t miss him enough, but I try,I try.
vaudine
UGH... have you seen this?
Tarnished by Monica? No, he was tarnished by impeachment, rape, and selling our security.
Bwah. Beat me to it.
Love it! Excellent point! I guess the MSMdummies think they are sooooo clever (too clever by half) using their thesaurus' to help them dance around the real issues.
BS, it is important to bring the conversation back to reality.
I agree! But, I'm not holding my breath, however, as the MSM is still mesmerized by their Slick Willy and the prospects of getting his wife into the Oval Office.
Many many more don't.
Next story...
Ah, for those halcyon days of Al Qaeda members attending American flight schools.
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