Bush Becomes President With Highest Disapproval Rating Ever

The Whistler • April 22, 2008

He took the title from Harry S. Truman:

WASHINGTON — President Bush has set a record he’d presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% 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% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.

The interesting thing is that Barack Obama thinks Harry Truman was one of the best Presidents of all time. Hillary Clinton has been known to hold Harry Truman in high regard as well.
So what does this tell us? That perhaps in-the-moment public opinion polls are all but meaningless in terms of a leader’s legacy? Don’t tell the media or the left (I repeat myself) that, as they’re too busy glorifying in Bush’s low approval numbers.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Media, Politics, The Loony Left

http://Array docdave

That Bush doesn’t base his polocies on popular opinion (as registered in polls) unlike Clinton who did is one of the reasons he has my respect and support.
http://bamapachyderm.com/ Beth

That perhaps in-the-moment public opinion polls are all but meaningless in terms of a leader’s legacy?

EXACTLY. The only approval rating that really matters in real-time is the one on election day, and he did just fine both times. I guess that means Gore and Kerry have lower ratings than Bush. ;P
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

I don’t get why the left is mad at high gas prices.

Back when gas was relatively inexpensive, Democrats talked about raising taxes on gas to get people to conserve.
After the price went up (which was exactly what the Democrats had called for) the Dems howled that it was Bush’s fault and that more of the government should be turned over to them.
(So they could raise prices faster and more frequently, I guess!)
robert108

That Bush doesn’t base his polocies on popular opinion (as registered in polls) unlike Clinton who did is one of the reasons he has my respect and support.

President Bush is a leader, while Clinton is a follower. You know how you can recognize a leader?
He’s the guy with all the arrows in his back.
FlyOnTheWall

push amnesty down his bases’s throat and the fact that he spends money like a democrat.

I don’t understand the far left hatred of ‘Neocons.’ Fiscally, they are very liberal, maybe not as liberal as they’d like but still.
http://www.fileitunder.com/ Hoodlumman

Bush didn’t help his cause out any when he tried to push amnesty down his bases’s throat and the fact that he spends money like a democrat.
carrick

Rasmussen has Bush’s approval rating at 34%. That’s probably a more accurate number.
http://infidelsarecool.com/ Rudy

I think Dick Cheney said it best when he was told that the polls show American’s fed up with the War.

“So?”
syn

And yet, despite massive media dose of BDS President Bush is the only politican in the past seven and a half years who has always been positive in outloook and kind in words.

I’ve never been one to follow populist fads and have no intention of starting now, plus I think polls are a waste of mind. Though I don’t agree with all of President Bush’s decisions I appreciate and admire his extraordinary character, something completely lacking in this day and age.
http://www.fileitunder.com/ Hoodlumman

I don’t get why the left is mad at high gas prices. As prices rise, more people will by more fuel efficient cars, ride buses and bicycles and Gaia will rejoice!!!!
Hannitized

Hogwash. Bush kicks ass. America, f*@% yeah!
Bill Mitchell

You are actually using “Gallup” and “Serious Poll” in th same sentence?

I’m aure they threw the dems at leat a 20 point sampling advantage.
pparets

Nothing complicated here. The American people, right, left and center are disillusioned that the war drags on, Osama Bin Laden has not be brought to justice, and gas is nearing $4 a gallon in some places.

As HST said…. “The buck stops here.”
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

In order for the numbers to work as reported they polled 42% Democrats, 28% Republicans, and 30% Independents.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics, indeed.

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