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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Gallup: "Only Richard Nixon was explicitly less popular at the time of his exit than Bush is today."
Think Progress: ThinkFast: January 14, 2009
Political Animal: Inching up at the close
News: Gallup: Lame-Duck Bounce Boosts Bush to 34 Percent
The Page by Mark Halperin: Poll: Bush Gets End-of-Term Bounce
Gallup: "Only Richard Nixon was explicitly less popular at the time of his exit than Bush is today."
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Gallup's final poll on the Bush shows his approval rating at 34% (it's gone up a bit because of Republicans) and his disapproval at 61% (Democrats and Independents can't stand him). Since the Bush team is all about legacy these days, here's some historical perspective from Gallup. The key finding is that Bush beats Nixon, but that's about it: ...
ThinkFast: January 14, 2009
Think Progress —
... President Bush will leave office with a 34 percent job approval rating, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. The improved rating, which is “a shade better than what Bush has received for most of the past year,” is mainly due to Republicans, whose “approval of him rose from 67% in mid-December to 75% in the current poll.” ...
Inching up at the close
Political Animal —
INCHING UP AT THE CLOSE.... The final Gallup poll on George W. Bush's approval ratings was released this morning, and thanks to some 11th goodwill from Republicans, the president will leave office with a 34% rating. That puts him near the bottom of modern presidents, but not quite at the very bottom. In one sense, Bush's final rating is worse than either Carter's or Truman's, because his disapproval score is significantly higher. Whereas Bush and Carter share identical 34% final job approval ratings, 61% of Americans disapprove of the job Bush is doing, compared with 55% ...
Fox News Is Outraged: Obama Is Trying To Steal Lincoln’s Identity!
Think Progress —
... .” Evidently, a heavily unpopular president trying to disingenuously convince the public of his greatness is better than an incoming president striving to actually model himself on a successful presidency. ...
Gallup: Lame-Duck Bounce Boosts Bush to 34 Percent
News —
... President Bush's approval rating has jumped to 34 percent in the final Gallup poll of his presidency. Bush's approval rating had been 29 percent for most of his final year in office. It was down to 25 percent right before the November election. Other presidents have seen a jump in their Gallup approval ratings between the election and the inauguration of their successors. Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, saw his approval rating increase by 22 percentage points. Presidents Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Lyndon Johnson also saw lame-duck bounces. Most ...
Poll: Bush Gets End-of-Term Bounce
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... From USA Today/Gallup:
President's approval rating improves to 34%, up from 29% in December.
Disapproval fell, from 67% to 61%.
Dates conducted: Jan. 9-11. Error margin: 3%. ...
Final Gallup Poll: 75% of Republicans Love Bush, Rest of Nation Still Hates Him
Firedoglake —
You might have seen that Bush's final Gallup approval rating was 34%, the lowest since Carter. But...
In one sense, Bush's final rating is worse than either Carter's or Truman's, because his disapproval score is significantly higher. ...
Final Bush Gallup Poll: Bush More Popular Than Nixon
The Moderate Voice —
... President George Bush got some (marginally) good news from the Gallup Poll today: it turns out that he will leave office more popular than Richard Nixon: ...
Bush Presidency Closes With 34% Approval, 61% Disapproval
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... job approval at the conclusion of their presidencies were all two-term presidents: Bill Clinton, with 66% approval; Ronald Reagan, with 63%; and Dwight Eisenhower, with 59%. However, even two presidents who were rebuffed by voters in their efforts to seek a second term -- George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford -- received majority approval in their final days. Close to half of Americans also approved of the job Lyndon Johnson was doing in the final days of his administration. Read more: http://www.gallup.com/poll/113770/Bush-Presidency-Close...
Bush: ‘I Don’t Give A Darn’ What Americans Think Of Me
Think Progress —
... In part because of this disregard for the public, President Bush leaves office with the lowest approval ratings in modern history — 34 percent. In an exit interview yesterday with Larry King, Bush made clear that he is quite happy ignoring the public, saying that he doesn’t “give a darn” that Americans simply disdain him: ...
Poised for a political comeba...
WTF Is It Now?!? —
Well, Mr Broder, the popular was preznit finally regained his footing. OK, technically, they were shoes, but what the hey. A new poll out by Rasmussen finds that a majority of Americans -- including 20% of republicans -- rates Commander Disaster as "one of our worst Presidents," and one by Gallup shows "Only Richard Nixon was explicitly less popular at the time of his exit than Bush is today." Mission accomplitude.
Gallup: Bush Most Unpopular President Since Nixon
Daily Kos —
Sure, the headline has the typical low bar for Bush: Bush Presidency Closes With 34% Approval, 61% Disapproval We're so used to it, it barely registers. But the numbers show a couple of things: Republicans are different than you and me and the rest of America: Bush mainly has members of his own party to thank for the fact that he is ending his presidency with an approval rating above 30%. Republicans' approval of him rose from 67% in mid-December to 75% in the current poll -- their highest ...
Lay of the Land
Talking Points Memo —
... I noticed that today's Gallup numbers had President Bush inching a speck up to a 34% approval, the highest he's had in about a year. But what really strikes me is the internals. Democrats and Independents still live in one country while Republicans live in another one entirely. Approval among Dems is at 6%; among Independents 28%; among Republicans, 75%. ...
Republicans Preparing For Another Disastrous Election Cycle?
DownWithTyranny! —
... to make Republican Inside-the-Beltwayites feel happy-happy in their time of greatest need, the GOP knows they're in danger of another devastating set of congressional elections in 2010. And this goes deeper than the fact that Bush's disapproval ratings are high among every group except the hard core GOP base. ...
New poll shows Bush is back!
Crooks and Liars —
...back all the way up to a whopping 34% approval rating. It's gotta suck to know that 2/3 of the country absolutely despises you and just wants you to leave already.
Gallup:
A new USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Jan. 9-11, finds 34% of Americans approving of the overall job George W. Bush is doing as president and 61% disapproving. Those ratings are a shade better than what Bush has received for most of the past year, and may represent the kind of lame-duck approval bounce Gallup has seen for other presidents. ...
History May -- or May Not -- Judge Bush More Kindly
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
Although George W. Bush's approval ratings have rebounded slightly, as often happens at the end of a president's term, he will nevertheless finish his presidency with among the lowest scores of any president since approval ratings came into widespread usage. Gallup pegs Bush's final approval numbers at a -27 net (34 percent approve, 61 percent disapprove), the worst for any outgoing president but Richard Nixon. ...
Fun facts.
Upper Left —
Gallup... Only Richard Nixon was explicitly less popular at the time of his exit than Bush is today.
George W. Bush’s Legacy: Moral Vision and Clarity of Purpose
Pajamas Media —
... , this is “the lowest for any departing chief executive except Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign amid the Watergate scandal.” Gallup’s final survey on Bush’s public backing is just slightly better, with 34 percent of Americans approving of “the overall job George W. Bush is doing as president.” It’s an iron law of politics that these end-of-term numbers will provide confirmation for those bloggers, pundits, and scholars determined to condemn the Bush administration as the worst in American history. For average Americans, it’s most likely that folks are simply tired of ...
Will Obama’s Anti-Terror Policies Vindicate Bush?
Pajamas Media —
... President Bush’s approval rating is rising as his presidency draws to a close, a new Gallup poll finds, and now stands at 34 percent. Of course, what both of these reports forget to mention is that Bush’s rating is still higher than the Democrat-run Congress. It will be interesting to see if, in four years, President Obama has his ratings similary thrashed by the New York Times and CBS. In fact, I predict Obama’s approval ratings will be staggeringly low in four years. Already, there are strangled screams of betrayal coming from the far left. They see what’s coming, ...
Teabaggers: Only Republicans are Allowed to Run Up Huge Deficits
Firedoglake —
... No doubt, when this is brought to their attention, the Teabaggers will stop dry-humping Reagan's coffin and declare him a failed President.
And what about George W. Bush, who they cheered on for 8 years and who remained hugely popular with them when he left office? ...
