Bush's 24% approval rating matches Nixon's 24% approval rating when he resigned in shame

[NNN0LHI]

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/polls/l/bl_historical_approval.htm

End-of-Presidency Job Approval Ratings
President Rating (%) Election Results

Bill Clinton
(2 terms, D, 2001) 65 VP Gore (D) wins popular vote but Bush (R) wins electoral college vote

Ronald Reagan
(2 terms, R, 1989) 64 VP Bush (R) defeats Dukakis (D)

Dwight Eisenhower
(2 terms, R, 1961) 59 Kennedy (D) defeats Nixon (R)

John F. Kennedy
(partial term, D, 1963) 63 (VP) Johnson (D) defeats Goldwater (R)

George Bush
(1 term, R, 1993) 56 Clinton (D) defeats Bush (R)

Gerald Ford
(partial term, R, 1977) 53 Carter (D) defeats Ford (R)

Lyndon Johnson
(1+ terms, D, 1969) 49 Nixon (R) defeats Humphrey (Johnson did not run) (D)

Jimmy Carter
(1 term, D, 1981) 34 Reagan (R) defeats Carter (D)

Richard Nixon
(partial term, R, 1974) 24 Carter (D) defeats (VP) Ford (R)

[TwilightZone]

1. Too bad that's where the similarity ends.

Bush is too in love with himself to feel shame.

[Double T]

2. There is still plenty of room for bush to go lower..........

and I believe he will achieve the dubious honor.

[rcsl1998]

5. Unfortunately...

...I think the remaining are basically in a Cult and refuse to see the light.

[malaise]

3. Would that we could be be that lucky

Shame and Bushco must never be used in the same sentence.

[jpgray]

4. Approval being the same as Nixon's doesn't mean the situation is similar

When Nixon resigned, his administration had been effectively destroyed and brought down by strong Congressional investigation (-not- impeachment). Bush's administration is not yet in similar trouble. If Congress would push the executive privilege issue all the way to SCOTUS, we could get the evidence to attack his administration more effectively. Impeachment, at this time, without that necessary breakthrough, would not convict. In Nixon's time, they got that breakthrough before impeachment hearings were brought about.

Another factoid that shows approval ratings don't always predict political fortunes effectively is Truman's low thirties approval rating leading up to his contest with Dewey.

[Golden Raisin]

6. So? Bush is still very much in power

and still sneering. He continues to do exactly what he wants. Congress and Pelosi aren't doing shit and won't. The wars in Iraq & Afghanistan are raging as fiercely as ever but now we have Blackwater stormtroopers thrown into the mix. It gets worse by the day. Our Constitution is effectively defunct. Unlike in Nixon's day, Congress has sat by for the last 7 years and let Bush, Rove and Cheney sodomize it on a daily basis. Checks and Balances are apparently dead. Bush can still unilaterally bomb Iran and probably will. His low poll numbers don't mean shit until he is stopped once and for all, and I do not see that happening.

[Ian David]

7. The Nazi Party in Germany has an approval rating 1% higher than Bush does here.

We're not alone. 25 Percent of Germans Think Being Nazi Not So Bad
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[BuyingThyme]

8. Just a statistical anomaly.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. K&R - Thanks for the stats ! Interesting. Didn't know Clinton had

the best rating. Gives me good ammunition when my right wingnut inlaws say, "Carter was so bad." Hell, 53's not chicken liver.

[KoKo]

10. Don't think there's any chance of that happening with the Chimp, though.

Hearing his Press Conference today...seems more likely he needs to be taken out in a straight jacket. He's not planning on leaving...:-(

[UTUSN]

11. K&R #3