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President "Least Popular" meets President-elect "Most Popular" at the White House today
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I know we've all had our fill of polls, but this latest finding from Gallup adds some perspective to the meeting of Bush and Obama today. It's the ugly past meeting the hopeful future. And, the numbers prove it: From Gallup: Monday's White House meeting between President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama presents a remarkable contrast between one of the least popular two-term presidents in modern times at the close of his administration, and one of the most popular candidates to win the presidency. According to Gallup Poll ...
Legacy Time
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
With just two months left before he leaves office, President Bush's approval rating is at 27%, according to Gallup 's latest tracking poll (Nov. 6-8). Today at the White House, he'll meet with his successor, President-elect Barack Obama, who's favorability rating in the same poll was 70%. Of course, the two numbers aren't exactly comparable, as Obama has yet to make an executive decision while on the clock. The numbers to look at are the final approval ratings of other former presidents. If today were Bush's last day in office, he would have the lowest approval rating of any ...
Gallup: 70 Percent View Obama Favorably
News —
... A robust 70 percent of voters say they favorably view President-elect Barack Obama, just less than a week after the Illinois Senator bested Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the presidential election. A Gallup poll conducted November 6-8 found that a large majority views the incoming president favorably, though Obama's successor, President George W. Bush, maintains a 27 percent approval rating. A quarter of those who were surveyed said they viewed the president-elect unfavorably. Obama and Bush meet together at the White House at 2 p.m. this afternoon. Similar majorities expressed ...
Gallup Poll: Bush And Obama Flip Sides In Popularity
The Moderate Voice —
... A new Gallup poll provides an interesting context to the meeting between President George Bush and President Elect Barack Obama: the Republican has a job disapproval rating of 66 percent while the Democrat has a favorable rating of 70 percent. ...
Contrasts
Newshoggers.com —
... three times so far this year," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating."
Before Bush, the record holder for presidential disapproval was Harry Truman, with a 67 percent disapproval rating in January of 1952, his last full year in office. The latest Gallup poll shows the contrast;
Yes, almost a mirror image. ...
Obama Entering White House With High Favorables -- And Bush Leaving With High Disapproval
TPM Election Central —
... A new Gallup poll shows that Barack Obama's post-election honeymoon period has already begun, with the president-elect sporting a very high favorable rating of 70%, with only 25% unfavorable. Any bad blood from the messy general election seems to have passed for now, with only a hardcore GOP base registering an unfavorable opinion of him. ...
Video: President welcomes new pope to White House
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... A tale of two approval ratings , mirror images of each other. Thus did the photo op come to pass, and thus were the airwaves filled with talking-head chatter about the miracle of orderly transfers of power. Obama voter though he be, ...
Obama - Bush White House Visit: What Was Laura's Problem?
BAGnewsNotes —
... If the moment was innocent enough, however, it suggested one of two things to me. First, on a day in which the polls reflected historically low approval ratings for her seemingly unaffected husband, it seems logical enough Laura had been gripped by a sudden concern over how she looked alongside the newly- and (very) popularly-elected Mr. Obama and Mrs. Obama. ...
People Like Obama
Matthew Yglesias —
... For reasons I don’t quite understand, winning an election tends to make the winner more popular than he was before. Thus, Barack Obama now has a sky-high seventy percent approval rating and folks are optimistic that he’ll do a good job: ...
