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Not to nitpick, but the title of this thread is misleading; Bush has the highest disapproval ratings of any president since polling for disapproval began. That means Bush is currently enjoying the greatest level of unpopularity of any modern president, but there is no means to compare him to some of the other famous (or infamous) bad presidents, such as Andrew Johnson or Franklin Pierce...
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/10/bush.transition.poll/index.html]Belief that country heading in right direction is at all-time low - CNN.com[/url]
Heck I'd only be surprised if he wasn't voted the most unpopular.
I don't like Nixon myself but even I have to admit he did some good for this country. And I believe that the same can be said about most any other unpopular president we may have ever had.
Dubya in contrast will only continue to look worse over the course of time as more & more currently unknown facts about his administration come to light.
So bad in fact that I think future American political historians will look at him one day and ask, "Man, what the f*** where we thinking?"
Bush may have a lower rating than Nixon, but I don't think it's lower than Truman's which I recently heard was somewhere around 25%.
As someone mentioned, the Congress is enjoying an even lower rating than the President's and this is with the Democrats at the helm.
No he is lower than truman now. In the end it really measn nothing in the context of history. The demcratic congress went to the lowest in history of congress lately after havbing control for about two years. Generally any poll on politcians is very low.
The rating for Congress is virtually always lower than that of the President. As horrible as he is, about half the people out there voted for the bozo last time around and many just do not want to admit to themselves how dumb they were in doing that. Not so re Congress. People feel perfectly comfortable in blaming stuff on Congress because in doing so they don't have to lay anything at the feet of the particular guy they voted for, assuming he got elected. Those who claim in defense of Bush that Congress' rating is even lower are engaging in an emperor-has-no-clothes argument...
...That means Bush is currently enjoying the greatest level of unpopularity of any modern president, but there is no means to compare him to some of the other famous (or infamous) bad presidents, such as Andrew Johnson or Franklin Pierce...
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The rating for Congress is virtually always lower than that of the President. As horrible as he is, about half the people out there voted for the bozo last time around and many just do not want to admit to themselves how dumb they were in doing that. Not so re Congress. People feel perfectly comfortable in blaming stuff on Congress because in doing so they don't have to lay anything at the feet of the particular guy they voted for, assuming he got elected. Those who claim in defense of Bush that Congress' rating is even lower are engaging in an emperor-has-no-clothes argument...
It took a real douche to vote for him in the first place.He appeared just as stupid from the beginning as he does now.
I don't blame y o for not rading the stupid article, which would be a waste of time. But it said:
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.
You're right. I barely skimmed the article. But the point is that I question the article's findings since I have definitely read that Truman's was lower. However I have no link to prove that.
It doesn't matter, but the point is that Truman was later held in high esteem by many. So what the general public thinks about a President today in the heat of the moment and what history will find are two very different things.
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