Saturday, May 28, 2005

Another Poll Bush Loses

There's this site, Mister Poll, that allows you to create and vote in all sorts of non-scientific polls.

Now, I don't really take much stock in them because well, they're non-scientific.

But it's astonishing how poorly Bush does in these polls. Take this one:

Best modern-day president:
Ronald Reagan (45%)
Bill Clinton (34%)
Jimmy Carter (9%)
Bush Two (5%)
None of them (4%)
Gerald Ford (0%)
Bush One (0%)
72 total votes

Or this one:
Choose your 10 favorite US Presidents.
16. Abraham Lincoln(Republican) (8%)
40. Ronald Reagan(Republican) (8%)
1. George Washington(No political party) (7%)
35. John F. Kennedy(Democrat) (7%)
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt(Democrat) (6%)
3. Thomas Jefferson(Democratic-Republican) (6%)
26. Theodore Roosevelt(Republican) (6%)
33. Harry S. Truman(Democrat) (5%)
42. Bill Clinton(Democrat) (5%)
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower(Republican) (3%)
7. Andrew Jackson(Democrat) (2%)
39. Jimmy Carter(Democrat) (2%)
28. Woodrow Wilson(Democrat) (2%)
43. George W. Bush(Republican) (2%)
2. John Adams(Federalist) (2%)
6. John Quincy Adams(Democratic-Republican) (2%)
41. George Bush(Republican) (1%)
[All others get 1% or less]

Okay, he could have done worse, but for a sitting president he's doing awfully. And you can't say it's because too many liberals answered the poll - look how well Reagan did in both polls.

Was this guy ever really popular, or did Rove just convince the faithful to support him whatever their misgivings?

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