From the LA times (Ha! I know shocking isn't it!):
"Bush's unpopularity among voters starts to fade" The former president's standing remains weak, but polls suggest it's now less effective for Democrats to try to run against him.
July 25, 2010 By Michael A. Memoli
New polling shows that Bush's standing among the electorate remains weak, and that voters for the most part still fault him for the nation's ailing economy. But as President Obama's popularity has stagnated, Democratic strategists say that drawing simple comparisons between the two leaders is not a surefire strategy to move voters their way.
"Our current data brings into question the notion that you can run against Bush and win," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Obviously Bush is not popular. The question is: Does it help Obama to run against the past in debating the future?"
A Quinnipiac survey last week found that Obama's "political honeymoon ended," and put his job approval rating at a new low of 44%. When voters were asked whether he was a better president than Bush, 42% said yes, and 32% said no. The gap was narrower among voters who identify themselves as independents, a potentially troublesome finding for Democrats.
A survey from Gallup released last week found that Bush's personal favorability rating had increased 10 points since the last such poll in 2009. At 45%, it was just 7 points behind Obama's, bringing into question whether attacking the Bush legacy would be very effective.
"All elections are about the future. If Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi [D- San Francisco] doesn't understand that, she might as well hand over the gavel right now," said Scott Stanzel, a former deputy press secretary for the Bush White House.
Democratic strategists concede that they won't be able to use the former president against Republican candidates as they did in past cycles. But they say candidates can find success if they make an aggressive case about whether voters want to return to the policies the Bush administration pursued.
"I think that voters this year are a little bit too smart for boogeyman. You can't just throw out a name and hope that it's going to have an impact," said Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Assn.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/25/nation/la-na-polls-20100726
Also President Bush and wife Laura attended the Texas Rangers game last night at Arlington stadium where the Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-4. Oh, and he also got a standing ovation. Yep, looks like more and more people are beginning to see what an awful disaster Obama has been!
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100725&content_id=12626812&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
View a clip of GWB and Laura here:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=10280481&c_id=mlb