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Poll: Bush disapproval ratings reach new record
CNN ^ | 10.10.08 | From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 11/10/2008 11:09:34 AM PST by meandog

WASHINGTON (CNN) – As President-elect Obama visits the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president in the six decades since presidential approval ratings were first measured.

Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday disapprove of how George W. Bush is handling his job as President. That's an all-time high in CNN polling, or in Gallup polling dating back to World War II.

"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; bad; bds; blamebushfirst; bush; chimperor; flub; imposter; jobapproval; president; shrub; worse
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To: jveritas

agreed


121 posted on 11/10/2008 4:44:28 PM PST by reefdiver (How do you keep the Conservative a Conservative, in Washington DC ?)
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To: WilliamReading

Actually he is going to his ranch in South America. 100 square miles in size.


122 posted on 11/10/2008 4:46:09 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit.)
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To: sazerac
W is his own worst enemy. Worst communicator in modern times. Does not really give a rat's a$$ what anyone else thinks. Two that come together as a fatal flaw in a national leader.
123 posted on 11/10/2008 4:48:16 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit.)
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To: 08bil98z24
“...he earned it. Allowing the media and the liberals to attack him and his policies non-stop without ever defending himself..”

As his Master would have wanted.
I disagree with much of what President Bush has done; more specifically what he has not done, but he has the demeanor of a true Christian!

124 posted on 11/10/2008 4:48:24 PM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: meandog

1) They compare their own numbers from a different polling company to Gallup numbers historically. Talk about apples to oranges. He’s 27/66 app/disapp for a while now.

2) While 27/66 is bad, its not drastically as bad as they make it out to be at 76%.

3) CNN really is the communist news network.

4) Bush is the past, and his personal favorability rating is still over 50%. People like the guy, just not all the things he’s done.

5) Given how crappy things are going to be over the next 4 years, Obama is going to give Bush a run for his money. REmember, they kept nailing Bush to the wall and brought his ratings down constantly in a time of relative peace and prosperity. It’s a soft disapproval of Bush with yuppies in their corvettes giving him the finger.

When these yuppies lose their jobs under Obama and face double-digit inflation and unemployment, they are going to really hate the guy.


125 posted on 11/10/2008 5:04:41 PM PST by DiogenesLaertius
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To: Boiling Pots
Well, I personally like George Bush, but there are reasons to be dissatisfied. I am curious as to why you think it is deserved. Could you expand on your reasoning as to why you think so?

Thanks for your posting. I appreciate a thoughtful discourse - while I appreciate this site, many opinions here are based on pure emotion as opposed to thoughtful discernment. I'm not criticizing anyone, I fall prey to that type of opinion making myself.

126 posted on 11/10/2008 5:06:12 PM PST by Dave W
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To: WOSG
My current ranking of Presidents in my lifetime from best to worst, and acknowledging my conservative viewpoint: Reagan GWBush Ford GHWB Clinton Nixon LBJ Carter

My lifetime ranks these in order:
Reagan

Eisenhower
Ford
Kennedy
Truman
GHW Bush
LBJ
Clinton
GW Bush

Nixon
Carter
The spaces are intentional because none really are anywhere Reagan and the bottom two are absolute dirtbags!

127 posted on 11/10/2008 5:09:51 PM PST by meandog (Wasilla warrior in 2012!)
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To: GOPJ

I don’t think so. The left writes the published histories, and they are not bending.


128 posted on 11/10/2008 5:38:07 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: meandog

Your rankings make some sense, but I detest the HST legacy too.


129 posted on 11/10/2008 5:39:22 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: The Ghost of Rudy McRomney

Not sad, just expected. Karl Rove is overrated. He doesn’t understand the psyche of the American people looking for freebies from “their gubment”.


130 posted on 11/10/2008 5:44:45 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

“To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”


131 posted on 11/10/2008 5:45:37 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: Theodore R.

Keeping those agents in prison so long under the circumstances of their conviction is unChristian.


132 posted on 11/10/2008 5:48:46 PM PST by Theodore R. (The most frightening words in the English language: The American people!)
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To: NTegraT
his biggest enemy has been the U.S.Press

I don't agree. George Bush has been his own worst enemy. He has been content to sit back in lofty grandeur and say "Let history be the judge." Meanwhile, in the here and now, his nation has been subjected to a malignant and not so silent assault by enemies foreign and domestic, with menacing success.

And his supporters (us), he has abandoned, vilified, and left to fend for themselves. And a party left leaderless has flopped around the barnyard, spraying blood and generally acting like a chicken with it's head cut off.

You are right, I have a tough time feeling grateful for that. And btw I am an American, not part of a "citizenry." Leave that "citizen" crap for the Frenchmen.

133 posted on 11/10/2008 7:15:22 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Gator113
Anyway, it’s now time to celebrate, as America is going to soon get the president this ungrateful nation deserves..... and a quality of life it has earned

So who is the "turncoat," now? As an American I owe allegiance to the people, the nation, and the Constitution, not to any politician. Sorry about you though..

134 posted on 11/10/2008 7:20:45 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: WOSG
We are about in the same shape we were in 1976 and 1992.

1976-- the first presidential election after Watergate. 1992-- The election after 4 years of Bush 41. Not much of a recommmendation there, chief.

And to say that Obama will be worse than Bush, does not mean much. AIDS is worse than Herpes, too, but I'd as soon not have either one.

135 posted on 11/10/2008 7:36:09 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: linn37
He was good on defense, judges and taxes

That he was, but those are the low hanging fruit. On the tough issues: Immigration, out of control spending, entitlements (Including Medicare D), governance (Campaign finance 'reform'), and most of all national leadership in presenting a vision of America to combat the dry rot of leftism, he sucked. Bad.

136 posted on 11/10/2008 7:47:09 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Osage Orange; Dave W

Notwithstanding anything else, at the end of 8 years of having a Republican as President, the Federal Government has taken huge equity positions in several large financial institutions (among others).

This is something that should be completely unimaginable in America. We didn’t really have to wait for Hussein to take over.


137 posted on 11/10/2008 8:36:56 PM PST by Boiling Pots (Time to put Bush/McCain "conservatism" back to the back)
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To: hinckley buzzard
"George Bush has been his own worst enemy."

I do agree with you that he has caused or failed to stem most of his problems. Many's the time I would yell at the TV, "Fight, George, Fight!!!" But it was hopeless, he was not going to get in the trenches and fight. He in his own mind assumed an administrator and put away his campaign hat. That was unfortunate and he had no one who would fight FOR his policies either. He would not take it to the American people. The few attempts he made were very, very weak with no follow-ups. As for illegal immigration, he has always been for a worker program and not for controlled borders, even before he was elected. He was not then and is not now a conservative but he was better than Algore on any level. Sounds very much like our most recent election, except the other guy won.

138 posted on 11/10/2008 8:37:21 PM PST by NTegraT (USSA? Say it ain't so.)
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To: Boiling Pots
His low approval rating are deserved. I know it’s not a popular opinion around here, but it’s true.

Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but specifically, for what?

139 posted on 11/11/2008 5:41:23 AM PST by fwdude ("...a 'centrist' ... has few principles - and those are negotiable." - Don Feder)
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To: fwdude

Bush is the past...we need to unite. Fighting over Bush is folly.


140 posted on 11/11/2008 5:42:20 AM PST by Boiling Pots (Time to put Bush/McCain "conservatism" back to the back)
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