Posted on 04/14/2010 8:34:28 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Fascinating numbers from Public Policy Polling :
"Americans are now pretty evenly divided about whether they would rather have Barack Obama or George W. Bush in the White House. 48% prefer Obama while 46% say they would rather have the old President back.
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... 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignspot.nationalreview.com ...
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Obama ranking that high is pretty scary.
In a related story on Drudge, 47% don’t have to pay any taxes. Another “coincidence”?
Obama ranking that high is pretty scary.
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He gets a tribal bump. Like affirmative action, but internal.
By 2012 Obama would have trouble being elected a Chicago alderman even with with legions of the dead voting for him. I expect that one or more Democrats will challenge Obama in the 2012 caucus/primaries and there will be a strong move to draft Hillary to run again.
Folks I have said it all along. Before very long people will be missing Bush big time and wish he was back. Its right around the corner
Hey Jim Geraghty! Shhhhhh
People know how they FELT. While they might have disagreed with Bush on the war or other issues, they FEEL unsettled and in some cases downright terrified with Obama in office.
That they are neck in neck after only a year is HUGE.
NO!!!!!
If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t have an Obama in the White House in the first place.
Ronald Reagan’s legacy was a country so supportive of Republican Philosphy, they elected his vice President - your father - as President (who then proceeded to mirror you in screwing everything up). YOU gave us a liberal spending agenda, globlism as a political philosophy, a long war of occupation, an unbalanced trade picture with Red China, an army of illegal invaders, and a bail-out of badly run businesses ALL of which contributed to our economic collapse.
I don’t want you back - I don’t ever want any OTHER Bushes in the White house Garden EITHER. And I don’t want a Marxist Muslim in the White House.
There has to be choice other than strychnine or cyanide for the American voting public at the booth.
Really? I didn’t see Republican majorities in the house at all during the terms of Ronaldus Magnus or GHWB, with a slim GOP majority in the Senate only from 81-86. America wasn’t a Republican nation at all during that period, despite the solid vote for RM (which had as much to do with personality as with ideology).
Yep. He’ll always get that 10% (plus white guilt voters)
You are going to confuse them with facts.
That’s like choosing between a black turd and a brown turd. (No racism intended.)
It was only a matter of time.
American’s prefer a free country where jobs are plentiful over a dictator like state where the jobs are parceled out to the connected elites and the “correct” demographic.
Right on, Uncle Hal. I also said this bozo would be such a disaster that people would be praying for a third Bush term.
I don’t think he is disastrous because of his ineptness, although he is certainly that. I think he is cunning and devious and never let people know his real intentions. This is what SOME people are realizing - he wants to destroy the America we have known and loved....well, the SMART people have loved.
I agree. I don’t want the old soft Republicanism back. It was a mistake.
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