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Poll: 46% want Bush back
The Hill ^

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010polls; bush; bush43; fifth100days; missmeyet; obama; polls
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

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.


41 posted on 04/14/2010 1:12:14 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

“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.


42 posted on 04/14/2010 1:13:53 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Man - bless you for being a poorer reader of the articles than I usually am! I didn’t even think it possible.


43 posted on 04/14/2010 1:35:56 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Antoninus
None of the above. Bush was a disaster who helped usher in the total loser we have now. We need new blood in the worst possible way.

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.

44 posted on 04/14/2010 1:39:27 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Hegewisch Dupa; Monitor

Monitor

This is a really crude remark by Poll: 46% want Bush back
M….. is not part of my vocabulary.


45 posted on 04/14/2010 1:40:04 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Sub-Driver

So we only have the two choices?


46 posted on 04/14/2010 1:42:47 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
Well hell, thanks for asking about something in which I have no lack of experience. "M" - in this context, and I realize context is a dangerous topic to attempt to explain to you - means a solitary act, done solely for your own pleasure. When you decide to rant about welfare because people choose Bush (almost) more than Obama, then you clearly just feel like going on, solo, about welfare regardless to any facts.

You're welcome.

47 posted on 04/14/2010 1:44:48 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

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.


48 posted on 04/14/2010 1:59:32 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

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....


49 posted on 04/14/2010 2:02:16 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

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.


50 posted on 04/14/2010 2:30:39 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: DrDeb

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!


51 posted on 04/14/2010 2:32:36 PM PDT by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!)
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To: Newton
I'm still trying to grapple with the hard reality of having a president that hates his country and it's people, and is hell bent on turning into a socialist "Obamatopia"

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.

52 posted on 04/14/2010 4:40:15 PM PDT by Republic (Stop the horrific liberals from spending ONE MORE DIME before they destroy our nation.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
In politics, a charge unanswered is a charge proven.

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.

53 posted on 04/17/2010 5:28:56 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: ohioWfan
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.

54 posted on 04/18/2010 3:17:32 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: Balding_Eagle
What you said wasn't remotely close to what Karl Rove said.

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.

55 posted on 04/18/2010 4:42:04 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Balding_Eagle
btw, your first comment that Bush gave us Obama is still a stupid, historically baseless argument.

I hope you're also backtracking on that straw dog argument.

56 posted on 04/18/2010 4:43:36 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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