Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: CNN.com

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.

"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, "He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974." President Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974 stood at 67 percent.



Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

---

OK, it's on CNN, so it must be official! We just need to add the lowest approval rating (below Truman at 22%) and Georgie will be in the history books forever!

[DFW]

1. Warren G. Harding is spinning in his grave n/t

[saigon68]

39. "Bring Em On" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[electropop]

2. Mission Accomplished!

It sure looks like that's been his mission all along, and he has executed it perfectly.

[Demeter]

3. They Had To Take a Poll To Find This Out?

sad

[Xipe Totec]

6. Nobody wanted to touch the subject

they had to use a 10 foot poll.

[Demeter]

22. Thank You For That

I needed it. :rofl:

[calmblueocean]

4. And yet some people still want to vote for McCain.

Who can figure them out?

[AndyTiedye]

10. The Repiglickin Media Says McCain is a "Maverick", So He Is Immune to Bush**'s Unpopularity

[ShockediSay]

25. "Maverick" is just another name for another Cowboy nt

[saigon68]

40. McLame isn't Immune to Bush

He's his older, dumber brother

[Trajan]

31. Yes, I can ...

You see ? ... EVERYONE has harped on Bush because he is a figurehead ....

But the reality is: It is the Repuke party itself and their philosophy that is driving the Ship Of State into the ground .... Bush makes an easy target, but it personalizes the issues far too much ...

It isnt just Bush who is at fault, but the ENTIRE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT ... including conservative Democrats ....

Smack the Conservative, not just Bush ...

[calimary]

38. Yeah - we really need to help our fellow Americans connect the dots. It's not enough

just to (correctly and reasonably) abhor bush. He's just the top of a very large pimple - you know those big, huge, throbbing red ones that take days to come to a head, and then slowly you see, taking shape, a small white spot in the middle at the peak. The head appears. But the rest of the pustule deeper down below the surface is even more vile. He's just the most obvious one - the one you can most easily see. Everything else that has propped him up and created a climate in this country that slanted CONservative and stayed there is just as poisonous, if not grossly moreso.

We have to help other people connect the dots so they see it's not enough just to think bush is the only one at fault. We won't get at the root of the problem - which will push up another head before too terribly long. Like a weed. Remove the flowering top and then get complacent because you think you solved the problem. You didn't. The weed is still there in its entirety, and will soon present you with another flowering head.

We can help by staying active, fired up, and informed, as is possible by reading around this board. News stories and comment on and analysis of them is all over the place and helps clarify and expand your own thoughts and sophistication. You then become better at presenting arguments at - say - family dinners or while standing in the checkout line or visiting the coffee room at work and running into one of "those" coworkers. When you present more effective and more ready arguments, you might just crack somebody's closed mind open just a tad and let in a tiny waft of fresh air. And sometimes when you present an argument, even if you don't save someone's soul, it's quite likely you'll feel at least a small bit impressed with your accomplishment, your eloquence, and your courage! It takes guts to speak up and defend a rock-solid position especially when it happens to be the correct and truthful one. So encouraged, you might feel up to trying it again next time, or maybe doing something else beyond that (or in addition to?)...

Like writing a letter to the editor
or a comment to Jack Cafferty or somebody on air
or calling a talk show, friendly or of the enemy camp
or calling your Congressperson or Senator
or signing a petition
or post on some blog
or sending snail mail to make your feelings known - with feeling (Paul Begala once said 100 paper letters can change the course of a news program.)
Reacting in some way. Weighing in. Making yourself heard and your opinions known.

We have to do it ourselves especially since our mass media is not terribly inclined toward digging down to the professionally and deliberatly buried truth. We have to lead. We have to help our friends and our principles - and our very Constitution, it seems. It takes a damned long time though - but the bad guys started manipulating and perverting public opinion after tasting a very bitter defeat with Barry Goldwater in 1964 - and vowing never to go through that again. They rebuilt themselves and their own infrastructure in order to take over the country and the government and the policy center and slant the general mindset in the wrong direction. The fruits of that are now ripening everywhere - from the reckless deregulated economy that let the pirates and the pillagers run amok to the dumbing down of America with education system failure to an out-of-control rogue foreign policy that's made us an international pariah and left us much less safe and secure. While the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class gets nothing but vanishing cream.

"That's what you get when you vote republi-CON." Or be a little more respectful and say "that's what you get when you vote republican" or "...when you vote conservative." Anything bad that happens in the news that can reasonably be linked to that simple statement should be. Guilt by association. They do it to us and clean our clocks. Time to return the favor and restore our country to the good path and the correct direction. AWAY from the conservative dead-end and TOWARD or INTO the liberal side.

[Release The Hounds]

32. Leno made a joke about this last night...

Wondering who the 29% were. There were actually several boos in the audience.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. ...soon to be in ALL of history..........

[Fovea]

7. And consider...

Most Americans don't know a third of what this fuckwad has done to them.

Just wait, Rethuglickans! The idiot son of an asshole has taken a huge dump on your wide stance party.

They will never recover.

[krkaufman]

8. First to ever crack the 70% DISAPPROVAL mark. Kudos, W...

... you *have* managed to unite the country on at least this.

[Lobster Martini]

9. Let's start a list of things less popular than GWB...I'll begin...

Things less popular than George W. Bush:

This is harder than I expected.

Well, there's nuclear waste, lead-based paint, a blown head gasket...oh, heck, I'd have preferred any of those...

(Edit: Whoops, spelling error.)

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

11. Umm....

....root canals. Then again, I'd rather get one of those than 8 more years of this crap. 1/20/09 yet?

[nichomachus]

14. Not root canals

unpleasant, but you feel better when it's over.

I was going to say: Slamming your balls in a dresser drawer.

[Lochloosa]

23. I was going to say "Welcome to DU" but I see you have been here since 07

How is Bullwinkles doing?

[Bush_MUST_Go]

13. You mean *MORE popular than bush.* Here's one: Explosive diarreah.

[nichomachus]

15. during your wedding reception

[boobooday]

21. Backed up sewer?

[ozymandius]

24. Try herpes, gangrene, leprocy, swallowed by an Anaconda,

drowning in a vat of human dung, drowning in a vat of GWB's dung, eaten by Republican cannibals....

I can thing of a few things less popular than President Booger.

[Blue_Tires]

29. Jock itch.... major back sprain... gallstones.... hemmorroids

[maseman]

30. Don't forget

the gout, post-nasal drip, rectal-bleeding, lice, athlete's foot and Mad Cow disease. Oh yeah, and Ebola virus.

[FVZA_Colonel]

33. At a certain point, I think syphilus was polling higher than Bush (or Cheney).

[BrokenSocialScene]

36. The 80's

Nothing is more unpopular or less cool than the 80's.

[nichomachus]

12. I suspect it's much much higher

There are people who don't like him, but for various reasons can't bring themselves to say that to anyone. One reason is that they went so far out on a limb for him for so long, they can't crawl back. So, I'd guess his disapproval rating is somewhere between 80 and 90 percent.

I started a thread the other day that went nowhere, in which I related that I am having trouble finding any cars with Bush stickers, and I live in an area where they used to abound. I think I've seen one in the last couple of weeks.

[maxsolomon]

16. i still want to have a beer with him

if that's what it takes to tell him that he's a sociopathic narcissist who's made these last 8 years the most embarassing & shameful of america's history.

and i'm counting the buffalo slaughter & genocide of native americans.

[intheflow]

17. But impeachment is off the table!

:grr:

[lebkuchen]

18. Which explains Congress's lower approval....

Bush and Cheney are still in office and shouldn't be. Nearly everyone on the planet agrees.

[moondust]

19. And polls say Bush III is about even with the viable alternatives.

What does that say about the U.S. electorate?

[AndyTiedye]

27. That You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time

[ckramer]

20. 90 % of Americans should disapprove his job performance

10% are die-hard repubs.

Think about the Iraqis killed since the war!

[SunDrop23]

26. No argument here...he sucks. Failure in every sense of the word.

You reap what you sow.

[Senator]

28. And Still, Impeachophobia Runs Epidemic In DC n/t

[olddad56]

34. Bush has lowered the bar, so that McBush can be an acceptable candidate.

[goclark]

35. If the SPINNERS say that, he really has a 2%

approval rating.

I refuse to listen to the SPINNERS at CNN,MSNBC and all the other trash anymore.

Subtract 20% from whatever vote totals they say about HCBC and McCain.

Add 20 % to what ever they say the total is about OBAMA.

[Zorra]

37. One problem here: Bu*h is a court appointed head of state, not a democratically elected president.

Bu*h is not, and never has been, the bona fide POTUS.

[minnesota_liberal]

41. Let's try for 75%

He's got 9 months left.