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.
don’t be so sure, you seem to do a lovely job of talking to yourself. If you want to have some masturbatory rant regardless of what the initial post was actually about, knock yourself out. If you have problems reading, hey, that happens too. It’s all good brother.
“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”
A choice between Bush or Obama??? Wake up!!!! Where have you been for ten years? Bush was not running for president.
Man - bless you for being a poorer reader of the articles than I usually am! I didn’t even think it possible.
Absolute disaster...
BTW, WTF is with these people that worship and want the same career politicians in office for decades at a time?
It's down right freakish.
Monitor
This is a really crude remark by Poll: 46% want Bush back
M….. is not part of my vocabulary.
So we only have the two choices?
You're welcome.
It is your problem not mine.
I am a U.S. citizen but do not live in the U.S. I did my job against Noriga. Now it’s your turn.
I am just watching you 300,000,000 assholes degenates who don’t have a spine.
And don’t give give me this crap that it was Panama’s fault. Nixon paved the way. Yes, it was he.
man - I know I should turn away, I shouldn’t watch a train wreck solely for entertainment, but this is too rich. If they gave doctorates in random thought generation....
Great. I cannot communicate with you folks.
You should not be surprised by your ignorance. Because of our ignorance you are in such deep trouble.
I have been through this. You are bunch of winies.
I have a feeling the number of people wanting President Bush back
will continue to go up as the numbers for fake president we have now
keep tumbling. There is a lot of buyer’s remorse going on in our
country!
And Newton, it really is a very hard reality. It has me reeling as well. I am having a hard time believing that those people in DC who are in charge of running our beloved nation actually HATE IT as it was/is.
Everyone that I know, EVERYONE, is upset. There is something incredibly wrong with not only WHAT is being done to all of us, but HOW it is being done. Without any support from the opposition.
That is terrible.
It is the people running our government right now that our forefathers warned us about with such amazing, prophetic clarity. We are there, and it is horrible.
Balderdash.
President Bush wasn't "hiding." He was doing his job being the President and leader of the free world.
And if you didn't hear him protecting our troops and the war, you weren't listening.
Just because the MSM didn't cover him, doesn't mean he wasn't talking. He spoke hundreds of times about the War on Terror. But no one backed him up. The Republicans in Congress were the cowards. You've got it all wrong.
Straw dog argument, not backed up by facts. Period.
Karl Rove said one of the biggest mistake they made during the eight years Bush was in the White House was not answering the critics.
He said they mistakenly thought the voters would see the truth on their own and that the critics wouldn't get any traction. By the time Bush/Rove figured out it wasn't happening it was too late.
I just used more discriptive words.
You accused President Bush of "hiding" and did so repeatedly. The argument that he was a coward is entirely different than Karl Rove's admission that he should have advised the President to speak up more forcefully.
I do appreciate your radical backtracking, however, because in agreeing with Karl Rove, you are admitting that your "hiding" accusation wasn't legitimate.
Thanks.
I hope you're also backtracking on that straw dog argument.
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