Posted on 05/01/2008 2:00:10 PM PDT by The_Republican
A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
"Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively) but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland added. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 66 percent disapproval in January 1952."
CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, "He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974." President Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974 stood at 67 percent.
The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower. Thirty percent of those questioned favored the war while 68 percent opposed the conflict.
"Americans are growing more pessimistic about the war," Holland said. "In January, nearly half believed that things were going well for the U.S. in Iraq; now that figure has dropped to 39 percent."
The numbers on the Iraq war come on the five-year anniversary of President Bush's "mission accomplished" moment onboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, when Bush proclaimed that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
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The VAST majority hate him for just about anything and everything conceivable but it sure isn’t because he’s too liberal!
I think FAR more hate him for being too onservative far outweighs your view.
And just wait...even if McCain is elected, Bush will look like freakin’ Reagan comparatively! AT BEST! Or worst compared to Shrill or ObamaNATION of ISLAM!
I think it was Michael Barone who observed that the majority of voting-age adults in this country have never lived through a real recession (the "recessions" of '92 and '00 being rather mild). Add in the ones who are "too stupid," and you have a Democrat plurality.
>> There’s an old saying that “history is written by victors.” I doubt there will be any development forcing the leftists to rehabilitate Bush the way the collapse of the USSR did for Reagan.
This is only a problem if we lose the War on Terror. Reagan’s handling of the Cold War was treated brutally in its time.
I am sure the same thing could’ve been said of Reagan in 1988. The hastened end of the Cold War was not quite forseeable at the end of Reagan’s term. However, in 25-50 years when the Islamic threat has suffered the same fate as Fascism, Naziism and Communism before it — Bush will be seen as a leader with truly unique foresight.
History is far wiser than the mere run-of-the-mill journalists and pedantic leftists would have us believe. Things become clearer with time.
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“No attacks since 9/11, get over it.”
I’m especially proud that we haven’t had a major cometary impact, near-proximate supernova, or documented space-alien invasion since 9/11, too.
Jimmy Carter wouldn’t get a 29% favorable rating among his own family members.
Not to defend Bush on the things that he’s done wrong, but it’s hard to be favorable with the American people when you’ve been crucified by the media and traitorous Liberals on an hourly basis, day by day, month by month, year by year. I do blame Bush for his lack of gonads. He should have stood up to Liberals and the MSM from day one. Thank God for the brave Americans in Iraq and Afganistan and those that have returned. As I’ve said before on FR, the elected human waste in DC and the scum in the media aren’t worthy of licking the bottoms of our troops’ boots after they’ve patrolled the slums of Baghdad.
Agreed. GWB has an uncanny talent for enraging his enemies by what he has done, while alienating his friends by what he hasn’t.
I have said for a long time to George W. Bush will go down in history as one of the worse presidents of modern time. I can imagine that history will treat him well considering the current polls.
Many Reps are part of that rating. Bush’s stance on immigration has soured many conservatives along with his caving in to the global warming nazis.
All the newly minted “citizens” who are about to get amnesty?
Dems are mad at him because he’s not a Dem. Repubs are mad at him because he’s too much like a Dem.
As it is, as much as he irritates me, he is an honorable man. He has stuck to his guns against some of the most hysterical and dishonest reporting I could imagine, in the face of betrayals by fellow Repubs like McCain and others, and in the face of treasonous behavior by the political opposition, who can not even charitably be called “loyal” opposition.
Most men would have wilted by now. Not Bush.
You don't remember how close we were to defunding the NEA, for example? What has W done with it? He has grown it. He has grown almost every department more than the democrats ever did. He's destroyed the conservative movement and lost a generation of 30-somethings who spent the 90's working for the magical day when the GOP controlled the gov't. W and his buddies Hastert and Frist threw it all away, and they should be eternally cursed by all conservatives for that.
Yeah, the judges were good, but, I don't see the need to heap praise on someone for doing what they said they would do. And don't forget: Harriet Miers. We had to force him into doing the right thing.
A couple of terrorist attacks in the next administration because of loosening security would do it handily.
Bush will likely have a very mixed legacy. He has mixed near greatness and major disappointment. I love his SCOTUS picks. Spending, not so much. Iraq was sadly and clearly (now) mismanaged. I know it’s Monday quarterbacking and all...
What’s the numbers for the ratHouse? I’ll bet they aren’t higher by much if at all.
Theodore Roosevelt once said “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
I love President Bush and cringe at the thought of him leaving us to the Three Amigos.
Nixon was president 39 years ago.
It is also substantially better than the current Congressional approval rating of around 22%.
If McCain will do like Truman and run against the "do-nothing, good-for-nothing" Congress he might have a chance. More importantly, it would give a boost to Republicans trying to oust democRat Senators and Representatives further down the ballot.
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