Posted on 01/21/2016 12:53:58 PM PST by presidio9
George W. Bush, controversial among conservatives and hated by liberals, now outpolls the Democratic Party's heir apparent for its 2016 nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton. A January poll taken by NBC and the Wall Street Journal found the former president slightly more acceptable than the future "Madame President" by 3 percentage points.
The poll asked respondents to say if they have "positive feelings" or "negative feelings" about various political figures. Forty percent said they had positive feelings for Hillary, while 49 percent said their feelings about her were negative, giving Mrs. Clinton a net approval of minus-9 percent. A mere 37 percent of respondents had positive feelings about Bush, but only 43 percent said their feelings were negative, giving him a minus-6 percent rating -- not good, but three points better than Hillary.
Former President Bill Clinton had the highest approval, at 9 percent (45 percent positive, 36 percent negative). Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, the well-funded-but-struggling establishment candidate, was treading water at minus-27 percent (19 percent positive, 46 percent negative). GOP front-runner and media mogul Donald J. Trump ranked dead last with minus-29 (29 percent positive, 58 percent negative).
The second-and third-place Republicans, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, ranked right in the middle of the pack, with minus-4 percent and plus-2 percent respectively. They also ranked first and second, respectively, when Republican voters where asked which candidate "you could see yourself supporting."
Cruz
Could Support -- 71 percent
Could Not Support - -25 percent
Rubio
Could Support -- 67
Could Not Support -- 28
Trump
Could Support -- 65
Could Not Support -- 34
Cruz's potential support (at 71 percent) was the highest he has yet reached, while the number of people who said they could not support Trump has fallen considerably from 74 percent last March to 34 percent this month.
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I can just see him reading this article, bobbing his head and saying, “Heh, heh, heh.”
So is jock itch.
No more Bushes. No more Clintons. An idea that both Left and Right can agree upon.
No, not really. You left us with Turdblossum and the Obamas. Thanks for nothing.
I liked my kidney stone more than I like Hillary.
The lower Hillary goes, the more possible Cruz is for the general election.
Imagine that.
Oh to be a fly on the wall, outside of swatting range.
I never understood why liberals hated W. The liberal politicians like Kennedy loved him.
George W. Bush is also largely irrelevant. So the degree of “popularity” or “disapproval” is mere wool-gathering at the moment. Dubya rarely makes much of ANYTHING on the order of an announcement, and his current opinions are almost as well-hidden as the circumstances surrounding the birth of the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut.
ME too, I was always like, why do they hate him so much, he’s no conservative. I think they didn’t like the way he talked. And he had that bad habit of never firing back. Then there was the unpleasantness with the election. Or else it was always cynical, moving the goalposts further and further to the left, that is, to say a moderate liberal is an arch conservative changes the definition or scale.
Hillary Clinton is no spring chicken, and Manson did just get married but...
Manson is 82 years old, 5'2" -120lbs, and has been living in a box for 45 years.
Clinton is 5'7", weight undisclosed, and reportedly a yoga fanatic in decent physical shape.
My guess is that Manson would be the bitch in that relationship.
Now THAT is an experiment I think would be worthy of a federal grant.
Given the net negatives; a more accurate title would be: “George W. Bush is now less unpopular than Hillary”.
Shocking!!! Just shocking.
GWB got a bad rap from the liberal press. He did make some mistakes, but he always stood firm for the USA, and was a good example as a family man and had respect for our military.
His mistakes were, however, deadly to his reputation: he failed to counteract any and all accusations against him by the media which was relentless. He also was insistent that Islam was a Religion of Peace - FALSE! He allowed the media to blame him for the Katrina hurricane aftermath when the fault was with Kathleen Blanco the governor and Ray Nagin the Mayor of NO. And, he did not call out the Todd-Fran laws which caused the housing bubble to burst from all the risky loans that the government forced upon the banking industry.
So, I am tired of all the GWBush bashing, and am happy to see that Hillary Clinton is now more disliked that GWB. It is only fair, after all. She earned it!!!!!
Nixon should be more popular than the witch.
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