CBS News Poll: Bush's Final Approval Ratings - 22% »
Posted By TimALoftis 11 months, 1 week ago in Political News(CBS) President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent.
Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.
Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago.
The rating is far below the final ratings of recent two-term presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, who both ended their terms with a 68 percent approval rating, according to CBS News polling.
Recent one term presidents also had higher ratings than Mr. Bush. His father George H.W. Bush had an end-of-term rating of 54 percent, while Jimmy Carter's rating was 44 percent.
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TimALoftis11 months, 1 week ago
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Endoscopy11 months, 1 week ago
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This means absolutely nothing. I know the Liberals will not believe it but your hatred of Bush is not going to be the final method of how history will deal with his presidency. Current ratings will mean nothing as well.
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Sorry libs but you do not get to really judge him.
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ybdogsct11 months, 1 week ago
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FTA:
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"57% of Republicans approve."
WTF!
And to preempt those who would claim that Bush never received a fair shot from the public to have a successful presidency,
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"But Mr. Bush enjoyed a high approval rating of 90% -- the highest of any president -- following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001...The president has also fallen short of expectations: Only 12% thought he would be a poor president." -
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gamahuche11 months, 1 week ago
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.22 would be about my ratingof his calibre.
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Definitely not one of the big guns of US politics, rather one of the toy pistols - and not even a sex-pistol.
I like to believe that even those on propeller who have desperately tried to find some justification for this nincompoop will cease and desist once he is history.
I also hope to never hear of him again after he and Cheney have [been] run off to South America. -
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CHAM11 months, 1 week ago
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That 22% of Americans can still approve of Bush identifies what is wrong in America today. It's called party loyalty. That anyone would support the most vile person ever to infect the White House is a staggering statistic to any moral and ethical person.
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George Bush is nothing more than a corrupt War criminal and as such should be placed in the league of the worst of the worst.
Good riddance is not good enough. I will not forgive and I will not forget. And as to the Republican Party, that 57% approval rating shows why we need to help the GOP fade away into nothingness.
To punish the Republican Party for their enabling of the rape of America by their leader and his corrupt buddies just do this: Never vote for a Republican Party Candidate again. We can punish a Political Party for their corruption and this is the time to draw a line in the dirt.
Send the punishment as a warning to the remaining parties and leave this warning : Never again turn against the American people. That is exactly what the Republican party has done by allowing this monster to continue to stay in office any longer than it would have taken to impeach him. We knew well before 2004 that this past Administration was not worthy of being called the "Leadership" of America. Republican boycotting kept him in office.-
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ibstilyn11 months, 1 week ago
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Something has to be said for the party loyalty aspect. I seem to recall that upon departure from office Bill Clinton had an approval rating of nearly what Bush's disapproval rating is--a mirror flip. One might say that the group that supports Bush is pretty much the one that gave Bill a thumbs down.With *some* cross ticket voting but damn little.
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