Bush Defeats Truman (hasn't received majority approval since 3 years and 3 months ago)

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Tough But Familiar Numbers for Bush: High Disapproval on Job Performance, Iraq and Economy


At 39 months in the doghouse, George W. Bush has surpassed Harry Truman's record as the postwar president to linger longest without majority public approval.

Bush hasn't received majority approval for his work in office in ABC News/Washington Post polls since Jan. 16, 2005 — three years and three months ago. The previous record was Truman's during his last 38 months in office.

Truman's problems included both economic recession and the war in Korea, which, in October 1952, 56 percent of Americans said was not worth fighting. Bush's approval, likewise, has suffered overwhelmingly because of the unpopular war in Iraq; his job rating correlates almost perfectly with views of the war.

In the latest ABC/Post poll, just 33 percent of Americans approve of Bush's work, a point from his career-low 32 percent earlier this year. Sixty-four percent disapprove, with those who "strongly" disapprove outnumbering strong approvers by a 3-1 margin.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/story?id=4652847&page=1

[onehandle]

1. Now THIS should be rec'd to the front page. Most unpopular pResident ever makes history again. nt

[nels25]

2. 50 years later Truman has been treated well

by most historians.

I have $10 dollar bill that says the same will not be true about 43.

[Harry Monroe]

3. Trivia question

Which President is on the $10 bill??

[rsdsharp]

6. None.

First Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton is on the $10.

[Harry Monroe]

10. Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winnah!! You can't believe how many people rack their brains over this one and then insist that Hamilton was a "president". I also had someone tell me that "President Franklin" was on the $100 bill.

[BR_Parkway]

12. Soon to be replaced with a one gallon gasoline container

[pattmarty]

4. And we all know, that's the ONLY thing he has in common with Truman.

[Finite]

5. Ok

but it's not really Bush you should be concentrating on anymore, is it? McCain is the one ahead in the polls

[ingac70]

7. The last Rasmussen poll I saw...

Had Obama up 1 nationally over McCain.

[Finite]

8. Fair enough

I could be out of date here.. But the last time I heard McCain was ahead in the swing states

Either way, f**k Bush, he's history and not worth anymore hatred being directed towards him

[SteppingRazor]

11. Depends on the swing state.

In the latest general-election poll out of North Carolina, Obama ties McCain, and N.C. is a deeply Republican state. Obama also beats McCain in Michigan and Wisconsin.

In any case, you're certainly right. People need to focus on McCain. But I don't think that precludes us from discussing the ignominious end of our current president. As for me, I intend to keep kicking him long after he has gone down.

[Finite]

13. You're not wrong

I'm just worried that the Dems are going to continue the hate-fest at the expense of focussing on McCain, and lose the next election. This CANNOT be allowed to happen, IMO, for the good of everyone. The world can't afford another 4 years of the Republicans

Although I speak as an outsider :)

[treestar]

20. Four more years of the same. McSame, aka McBush

is hardly different from the Shrub, and that brings the Shrub into the picture.

[wizstars]

16. au contraire, my friend

this worthless bag of sh1t has killed over 4000 fellow Americans (one of them a friend of mine), and tens of thousands of Iraqis. In my book he is and will always be worthy of all the hatred I can find to lavish upon him. If I have an ounce of hatred within me, it will be directed at him.

my 2C worth.

[BayjanDem]

9. No coin

I guess this means my grandchildren will never see President Fembot on currency, darn.

[NedSchneebly]

14. I thought is was "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" ... oh, nevermind!

[whistle]

15. And there isn't any other past president to beat on lowest approval is there

[ToughLuck]

17. BUSH most corrupt president in US history

He will surpass Nixon in the corruption, war crimes, him and his sicko men. Pelosi may very well be remembered as Bush's Queen..."impeachment is off the table".

What a dark time for democracy.

[NYC Liberal]

18. Who else is celebrating on January 20th, 2009 when this miserable piece of shit

is finally gone?

[sakabatou]

19. By the numbers: STILL the worst prez ever!

[sofa king]

21. Alter-America: Kerry Defeats Clinton

Three years and three months into his first of a near-guaranteed two terms President John Kerry continues to ride high with the American public. Kerry's job-approval rating has not dropped below 68% since his first day in office, when he immediately seized all records of the Bush Administration as evidence and began the sweeping prosecutions and subsequent reforms which have transformed America. This eclipses the recent benchmark set by President William Jefferson Clinton in the 1990s.

Kerry's numbers dipped into the high sixties briefly last winter, when he shut the government down over the Christmas holidays in a legislative battle with his own Democratically-controlled Congress, until the Senate finally agreed to punitive war-profiteering taxes against all eleven of America's largest defense contractors.

His approval rating instantly rose back to the low 70's a month later when he announced that the revenues returned to the U.S. treasury from those companies would allow for a doubling of the discretionary budgets of the Departments of Interior, Health and Human Services, the EPA, and NASA while lowering taxes for middle- and lower-class Americans by a further four percent.

This month, Kerry's approval ratings peaked at 76.8% as Osama bin Laden continued to deliver tesimony against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and thirty-seven other high-level members of the Bush Administration accused of planning and facilitating the so-called terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Parallel court cases on a galaxy of other crimes also proceed against the former Republican Party leadership, while literally trillions in misappropriated funds are steadily returned to the now-overflowing federal treasury.

In 2007, the National Institute for Mental Health finally released five decades of evidence showing that right wing authoritarianism syndrome (RWAS) was a treatable condition with the simple expedient of drinking fluoridated water--and the absence of low-Hertz propaganda programming delivered by Clear Channel radio and Fox News for decades before being exposed in 2006. Thus Kerry's numbers should continue to improve throughout the year....