If gas was 1.50/gal, he would be in the the seventies favorable.
Probably shouldn’t run for another term, then.
it could have been different.
regular reports to the people on the war on terror by the president
would have stood him in good measure
against the liberal media’s constant denigration of him and the war.
I call BS on this poll. There’s no way in H@#L he’s below Jimmah.
What was congresses approval rating again? Did they ever get into single digits like they were trying to do?
Popularity is overrated. The popular kids in high school end up washing cars and shoveling fries later in life. The unpopular kids end up loaded and with smoking hot spouses.
I remain confident that, like Reagan, history will judge Bush favorably.
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Well President Bush isn’t as bad as Grover Cleveland. The guy was never elected, he just sort of showed up and nobody bothered to kick him out.
Any poll that has “CNN” in the front has got to be accurate! Sarcasm off! (just in case)!
70% disapproval in a CNN poll is a badge of honor.
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll;"
Soooooooooooooooooo... The birth of CNN polling is when "modern history" began!
I call BS on that poll. In fact, I call BS on all CNN/Gallup polls.
You mean they got James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson’s poll numbers?
Popularity = Liberal ‘FEELINGS’ = What have you done for ME lately
You gotta’ work pretty hard to alienate just about everybody. Of course, in his own mind he’s probably a man of principles, whatever they are, who “stayed the course,” whatever that was.
There’s an awful lot of fair criticisms that can be made of President Bush, but there’s even more mindless hatred. He is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the 21st century.
If they separated personal from job approval like they did (only) for Clinton, he’d do okay as a person.
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.”
Two things could have improved his ratings greatly.
As already said, he could have communicated regularly on the war. And he could have regularly answered his Democrat critics, instead of letting them run all over him. It also certainly would have helped him do that if he had cleaned out all the clintonoids from the administration at the very start of his time in office, so they wouldn’t perpetually undermine everything he does.
I don’t know how much of this disapproval now comes from conservatives, but I expect a fair amount. He didn’t gain the approval of a single leftist by pushing for illegal amnesty, or for ethanol subsidies, or a number of other things that have upset the base. But he certainly angered a lot of conservatives.
Any Republican, no matter how good, will always have at least a 30-40% disapproval rating from leftist moonbats. But Bush has continually wounded himself, and on some of these issues has only himself to blame. Too bad, because in some respects he has been a great president, and he is a very decent man.