When comes to being unpopular, George W. Bush is not only an international trendsetter, he is a record breaker. Gallup has been polling on the approval rating of presidents since 1938, when Franklin Roosevelt was president, but in those seven decades, no president has been as unpopular as Bush has:
Among Republicans, 66 percent approve and 32 percent disapprove.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28 percent of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69 percent disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
The previous record of 67 percent was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.
(Bush also recently surpassed Truman as the president with the longest losing streak of unpopularity, having gone 39 months now without an approval rating over 50 percent, breaking Truman’s record of 38 months.)
The most disturbing number inside the Gallup poll is the tremendous support Republicans still give Bush, whose record over the seven years and three months he has been in office includes not a single accomplishment worth noting:
Views of Bush divide sharply along party lines. Among Republicans, 66 percent approve and 32 percent disapprove. Disapproval is nearly universal — 91 percent — among Democrats. Of independents, 23 percent approve, 72 percent disapprove of the job he’s doing.
Another record in the poll: 63 percent of Americans now say invading Iraq was a mistake.
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Well, you know what they say about conservatives”Not all Conservatives are stupid people, but ALL stupid people are Conservatives”
There can be no doubt. He has made me ashamed to be an American. Bomb-boy has been corporate America’s acting puppet for their globalization purposes solely. Certainly not for the citizens.
gad. not since caligula had his army beat the surf with their swords has history matched the stupidity and carnage of this mis adventure. one does not really understand the scope of the misery that has been created. and all this from the fly boy who wimped out of any service during the viet nam war. same same cheny and rummy.
G. W. Bush will go down in history along with Lincoln as the two greatest presidents this country has ever known. Bush protected our country when it needed it most. Abe Lincoln was the single most unpopular president of all time, a low rating of 15% at one time. You have four votes here for G.W. Bush as a great and trusted leader. JG
Bush will be remembered for taking the country to war unnecessarily on a pack of lies, for losing New Orleans and for presiding over what will likely, and hopefully, be the worst economic disaster of the 21st century.
His name will become shorthand for presidential incompetence — the opposite of Lincoln and Washington. Future presidents will study his actions in office to learn how to avoid failure, the way they study FDR to learn how to succeed.
Finally, I would sincerely like to see your source for the polling data on Lincoln. Gallup, the oldest polling organization I’m aware of, did not start business until 1936.