Posted on 05/01/2008 2:00:10 PM PDT by The_Republican
A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
"Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively) but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland added. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 66 percent disapproval in January 1952."
CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, "He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974." President Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974 stood at 67 percent.
The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower. Thirty percent of those questioned favored the war while 68 percent opposed the conflict.
"Americans are growing more pessimistic about the war," Holland said. "In January, nearly half believed that things were going well for the U.S. in Iraq; now that figure has dropped to 39 percent."
The numbers on the Iraq war come on the five-year anniversary of President Bush's "mission accomplished" moment onboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, when Bush proclaimed that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
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If gas was 1.50/gal, he would be in the the seventies favorable.
Probably shouldn’t run for another term, then.
it could have been different.
regular reports to the people on the war on terror by the president
would have stood him in good measure
against the liberal media’s constant denigration of him and the war.
I call BS on this poll. There’s no way in H@#L he’s below Jimmah.
What was congresses approval rating again? Did they ever get into single digits like they were trying to do?
Popularity is overrated. The popular kids in high school end up washing cars and shoveling fries later in life. The unpopular kids end up loaded and with smoking hot spouses.
I remain confident that, like Reagan, history will judge Bush favorably.
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Well President Bush isn’t as bad as Grover Cleveland. The guy was never elected, he just sort of showed up and nobody bothered to kick him out.
Any poll that has “CNN” in the front has got to be accurate! Sarcasm off! (just in case)!
70% disapproval in a CNN poll is a badge of honor.
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll;"
Soooooooooooooooooo... The birth of CNN polling is when "modern history" began!
While most of us admire him on the WOT, I would give him an unfavorable rating if I were polled. He has destroyed modern conservatism. The entire movement that began after Goldwater's defeat, and whose highpoint was the 1994 landslide, is now totally gone.
Do you remember the days when we actually talked about repealing the Department of Education? We were close. We had a movement based on federalism, individual liberty, and less government. W has thrown it all away. The very departments and entitlements we were so close to getting rid of he now expands faster than the dems ever did.
I call BS on that poll. In fact, I call BS on all CNN/Gallup polls.
You mean they got James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson’s poll numbers?
You Sir are are RJINO. Ron Jeremey in name only! ;o)
Ditto.
I agree 100%.
Popularity = Liberal ‘FEELINGS’ = What have you done for ME lately
You gotta’ work pretty hard to alienate just about everybody. Of course, in his own mind he’s probably a man of principles, whatever they are, who “stayed the course,” whatever that was.
There’s an awful lot of fair criticisms that can be made of President Bush, but there’s even more mindless hatred. He is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the 21st century.
“I call BS on this poll. There’s no way in H@#L he’s below Jimmah.”.....
I agree....the rabbit whacker was the worst!
Wow. You really do see no one but mediocrities in The Oval Office in the near future.
If they separated personal from job approval like they did (only) for Clinton, he’d do okay as a person.
Our conservative household gave him good marks for the WOT during his first term, however, he's slid downhill with us ever since. We would give him an unfavorable rating, but not as bad as Jimmah or BJ Clinton.
“If gas was 1.50/gal, he would be in the the seventies favorable.”
If there was air on the moon, people would live there.
Theodore Roosevelt once said “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
By whom, exactly? Conservatives who write books? Liberals who write books? Anyone on this board?
His legacy is toast.
I have to admit being partial to old Grover because he is the only president to have personally hanged anyone-- he did it twice and they both deserved it.
Two things could have improved his ratings greatly.
As already said, he could have communicated regularly on the war. And he could have regularly answered his Democrat critics, instead of letting them run all over him. It also certainly would have helped him do that if he had cleaned out all the clintonoids from the administration at the very start of his time in office, so they wouldn’t perpetually undermine everything he does.
I don’t know how much of this disapproval now comes from conservatives, but I expect a fair amount. He didn’t gain the approval of a single leftist by pushing for illegal amnesty, or for ethanol subsidies, or a number of other things that have upset the base. But he certainly angered a lot of conservatives.
Any Republican, no matter how good, will always have at least a 30-40% disapproval rating from leftist moonbats. But Bush has continually wounded himself, and on some of these issues has only himself to blame. Too bad, because in some respects he has been a great president, and he is a very decent man.
No attacks since 9/11, get over it.
Is it me or did I miss the part wher they tell us that the recent favorable ratings for Congress are 22%.
Wow, I didn’t realize “modern history” began a mere 7 years ago.
Oh, c’mon . . . just say it: “No difference between Gore and Bush.” You know you want to . . . .
Well, you nailed it.
The goofball contingent - - the liberal Democrats and their allies in the dying “mainstream” newsrooms - - will ALWAYS hate a Republican President. But, apparently not satisfied with just being hated by the scumbag crowd, Bush decided to bump up his own unfavorability rating by inexplicably failing to stand up for himself (and therefore, stand up for his supporters).
He really let a lot of people down with his weakness and timidity.
I’m surprised his unfavorability rating isn’t lower.
What were his ratings after Sept 2001?
Bush did it the old fashioned way, he earned it. But he couldn’t have done it without the help of his friends who couldn’t say no.
“Do you remember the days when we actually talked about repealing the Department of Education? We were close. We had a movement based on federalism, individual liberty, and less government. W has thrown it all away.”
Delusions. If you believe that, seriously, you are either daft or have some exaggerated sense of importance. The DoE isn’t going anywhere and it never was and it has nothing to do with Bush. There’s plent to rank on him about without making crap up.
“A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday......”
THAT’s as far as I needed to read because it’s the CLINTON NEWS NETWORK, and the Clinton’s best buddy (can’t for the life of me remember his name right this moment) that owns Opinion Research Corporation, and worked the deal to poll for CNN after he bought ORC just as this marathon Presidential Campaign cycle began.
YES, IT’S BS, and what’s worse than Clinton BS?
Stupid poll but yes he failed to effectively defend his own policies and to challenge his enemies. In fact he wanted no domestic enemies, the result being they hate him as an easy target.
This must be from the new school of journalism. Don’t report the news when you can make it up as you go along. What is the frequency Ken?
No bias here. LOL
Um...
Ok...
In Oct. 2006, a pollster called me and asked whether I approve of President Bush. I said, “No, he’s too liberal.” The majority of the people who disapprove of him might agree with me, but the pollsters won’t announce that.
Exactly. Other than his immigration mess he has done what a president is suppose to do. Protect our borders, appoint judges, and leave things alone.
The death of conservatism is the fault of all those who watch too much tv and drink Starbucks instead of remaining informed in order to battle liars that get elected on promises of fixing everything for everyone.
70% disapproval rating from a CNN poll....
I’d fire the bastards! A good pollster can always get 80% if they did it right!
God Bless President George W Bush!
I love that man!
Wait! We've got to remember that in '06 when the Dems took over, Nancy Pelosi said that she was going to solve the gas problem and heck, looking back, gas was plumb reasonable--a bargain! I remember that clearly, let's not knock Pres. Bush on everything, the Dems have roadblocked EVERY attempt to do something about energy for decades, they and their wacko friends.
Now, the border security you bet, he should've been on that on 9/12, no excuse. But for our troops, God bless him, he's stood by them and fought for equipment, funding as well as good leadership (Gen Petraeus for example) so if we obliterate the Islamofascists in this conflict, he'll prove out to be quite remarkable. But then again, we have the Dems to contend with...
I do not agree with everything he does, but he sure beats the H*ll out of Carter and Clinton and LBJ!!!!!!!!!!!!
:::Shrug::: Who cares? He served two terms. Not like he can run for a third.
Yes, Nancy, you said you would FIX everything. Calling Ms. Pelosi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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