41% say Bush "worst president ever"

[book_worm]

Forty-one percent (41%) of Americans say George W. Bush will go down in history as the worst U.S. President ever, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

But 50% of Americans disagree, despite Bush's record low poll numbers on his job performance.
Given the partisan emotions running high in the Bush years and the ongoing presidential campaign, it’s not surprising to find that the results are heavily weighted by the respondents’ political affiliations. For example, only 9% of Republicans rate Bush the worst president ever compared to 69% of Democrats.

By contrast, 85% of Republicans say Bush is not the worst, but only 21% of Democrats agree.
Over a third (37%) of unaffiliated voters rank him as the worst, but 52% of unaffiliateds do not.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/41_say_bush_worst_president_ever_50_disagree

If I were Bush I wouldn't take much comfort in 50% say that he isn't the worst president ever. It could be that most of them think that James Buchanan or somebody like that was just a little more worse.

[Tim4319]

1. Damn! 40%, that's kind of low isn't it?

[gatorboy]

3. That 85% of Republicans are still oblivious to reality is what's scary.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. They aren't oblivious. They just want the kind of country that

Bush and Cheney want. Huge big business and lots and lots for the rich.

And couldn't care less about anybody else. It's the Republican way, you know.

[Tim4319]

10. The 85% of the Republicans are just mindless minions!

I'm not surprised by that, those are the ones that listen to Hannity, Limbaugh, and Ingraham.

[Lorien]

7. It's Rasmussen. They lean to the Right. n/t

[TahitiNut]

2. It shows that 50% have their heads up their asses.

The pathological narcissist and war criminal belongs in prison.

[renate]

4. in the days after 9-11, who'd have thought we'd ever see this:

"Fifty-two percent (52%) of men say Bush is not the worst president ever, and 48% of women agree. But nearly as many women (43%) say he is the worst, a view shared by only 40% of men."

To have only half the population say "well, not the worst president ever" about a guy who once had a 90% favorability rating is a pretty steep drop.

[cliffordu]

5. Who the hell do they think is the worst, then? Jaysus.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. . . . and this is a Rasmussen poll

The real figures are probably even more grim.

I'd like to know who respondents who think Bush is better than somebody, any body, think is worse. The usual candidates for worst ever (apart from the Frat Boy) are Grant, Harding, Buchanan and Nixon.

[indepat]

9. Reckless fiscal policies featuring mushrooming debt, unfair tax policies, pre-emptive wars of

aggression and choice based on lies and featuring torture as a matter of policy coupled with pissing on/shredding the rule of law, most of the Bill of Rights, liberty and freedom itself, the Constitution, international law, treaties, organizations and goodwill, and the environment. Just what will it take for junior to his proper place in history? :P

[PCIntern]

11. 45% say Bush second-worst President evah!

Brad Blakeman declares this a PR win for Bush.


Get some humor, Brad!

[SmokingJacket]

12. People who voted for him would never agree, even if they

secretly admitted it, in the privacy of their own minds. They might say, "Well, he disappointed me," but they would never admit that they voted for the worst president EVER. Which they DID.

[riverdeep]

13. Well, it's kind of a dumb question.

I mean, America has had a lot of bad Presidents. How many people really are familiar with Grover Cleveland or Ulysses Grant and can make a fair comparison? This is really an emotional question more than anything. It seems more like a poll designed to get the polling company in the news.

The point is he's one of the worst for sure, and that anyone can still support him is only due to a yet as undiagnosed mental illness.