Got this online from CNN: (Passages in bold are emphasised by me)
WASHINGTON DC (CNN) -- A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll shows 71 percent disapprove of President Bush's job performance.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is 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 Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.
"Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon [22 percent and 24 percent, respectively], but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland said. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952."
While Gallup polling goes back to the 1930s, it wasn't until the Truman years that they began surveying monthly approval ratings.
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 66 percent.
Way to go, Bushie! Even if you don't go down in history as THE worst president we've EVER had (and considering Buchanan, Grant, Harding, and Hoover, that's REALLY saying something), then at least you've left some sort of legacy behind. A footnote in history to be sure...but that's probably actually what your entire administration will be.
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(Sigh!!) They're all doing it again. My biggest pet peeve and every politician and news person seems to be feeding it with a frenzy.
The 'American people' this and the 'American people' that.
So 71 percent of the 'American public' disapprove of Bush. What I'd like to know now is exactly what percentage of citizens of the USA make up that portion of the 71 percent of the 'American public'?
You see, by my definition (which I believe to be accurate) the 'American public' is defined as all of those citizens of every single country in North, Central and South America. So 71 percent of all those places including Canada, Mexico, Columbia, El Salvador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, etc, etc, etc. has got to be a huge number and I find it amazing that CNN would go to the trouble of polling the whole of the Americas just to find out what they thing of Bushwack.
Why not just a poll of what the citizens of the USA (who voted in the last election) think of him? If you didn't vote in the last election then I don't care to know what you think of him because what you think doesn't count because you didn't vote. Much more reasonable, no?
It's time for everyone, especially the nominees and nominees in waiting, to stop talking about what the 'American people' want and what the 'American people' need. They have no clue about the majority of the countries in the Americas. They should be speaking only for the people of the USA, and even then what they think we need is pretty questionable.
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