Posted on 04/14/2010 9:23:41 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Poll: 46% want Bush back By Eric Zimmermann - 04/14/10 11:02 AM ET
Almost half of Americans prefer George W. Bush to President Obama, according to a new Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey.
Forty-six percent of respondents said they'd like to have Bush back in the White House, while 48% prefer Obama.
From PPP:
Bush had atrocious approval ratings for his final few years in office, particularly because he lost a lot of support from Republicans and conservative leaning independents. Those folks may not have liked him but they now say they would rather have him back than Obama. 87% of GOP voters now say they would prefer Bush, a number a good deal higher than Bush's approval rating within his party toward the tail end of his Presidency. Democrats predictably go for Obama by an 86/10 margin, and independents lean toward him as well by a 49/37 spread.
These numbers suggest some peril for Democrats in making Bush a focus of their messaging this fall. A lot of folks who contributed to the former President's low level of popularity now like Obama even less. Figuring out a way to make voters change their minds about the current President would be a much more effective strategy for Democrats than continuing to try to score points off the former one.
I am convinced my cat would do a better job. At least he wouldn’t bow to every other leader (and US mayors). He might hiss and bite... but definitely not bow.
Presidents I didn’t like: Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Bush
Presidents I despise: Obama
In that context, I’d take Bush back.
The media trashes and bashes George Bush for 8 solid years while they worship at the foot of Barak Obama and somehow their approval ratings are the same. Amazing.
FYI: I asked you to do your own research — yes, “reading comp” is “your” friend!
OF COURSE we miss him!
Straw dog. Not accurate.
Well, let’s see... how many months did the turn around take?
Tune in tonight at 8PM/7 Central to see Olbermann’s head explode
Even Gumby would be better.
Straw dog. Not accurate.
Where was Bush when the Liberals attacked our troops, attacked the war? He was hiding in the White House.
Where was Bush when the Liberals attacked the economy? Hiding in the White House.
The list is nearly endless, but the answer is always the same, hiding in the White House.
In politics, a charge unanswered is a charge proven.
Why shouldn't voters vote for a Dem president, the proven charges of a war gone wrong, troops behaving as Nazi's (Important note, that's not my observation, that's the unanswered Liberal assertion), an economy worse than any economy since the Great Depression, and a Republican Party full of crooks?
Bush, hiding in the White House, left the voters with little choice but ask for change from the worst administration since George Washington.
Bill the Cat
ooops.
Think they now know that elections do have consequences? In times past, humor could be found in a statement such as that, but all I can feel is rage and absolute disgust.
Bush was left of center. Only you leftist would want him back.
Why do you think we are where we are?
The choices were Bush or Obama, no one right of center was an option, so it isn’t a matter of leftists wanting him back
“The choices were Bush or Obama, no one right of center was an option, so it isn’t a matter of leftists wanting him back”
Bush was out. It was Obama and crazy McCaian.
Dear heart....where have been hiding?
Who gives a shi’ite.
Like it or not, Bush was left of center...period.
“Forty-six percent of respondents said they’d like to have Bush back in the White House, while 48% prefer Obama”
Because they are on welfare, idiot. It is my tax money. But then, I doubt you pay taxes which means you are also on welfare with all the commodities and much, much more who don’t work for a living but we are working for you.
I can’t respond to idiots. This is why we are in big trouble.
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