Bush popularity falling...still!

George W. Bush's presidency was probably the least popular of recent US Presidents--especially in his second term. Most people know that, in his last two years, his popularity fell to historic lows.

According to Wikipedia's entry on Bush,

Throughout 2007, Bush's approval rating hovered in the mid-thirties percentile, although in a Reuters poll of October 17, 2007, Bush received a lower approval rating of 24%, the lowest point of his presidency.

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Some new statistics might surprise you:

• Of the 37 people who approved of Bush in his last 2 months in office, over 91% believe he is still President.
• 666% of those believe Bush is the Second Coming of Christ (although his rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, the global ecology initiative, is generally seen as evidence to the contrary).
• 100% of those approving and disapproving of Bush know that he does not, and never will, understand the Kyoto Protocol.
• Fully 77% of the 37 people above have heard Bush call the Kyoto Protocol "that damn karate move they keep askin' me about."
  
• Of the 330.2892 million who disapproved of Bush in his last 2 months, 98% believe he never was President.
  

The reasons for this surprising split are complex:

• Of the above 330.2892 million, 89% think Bush lost to Al Gore in the 2000 election because the vote was stolen by his brother, then-Governor Jeb Bush of Florida.
• Of the 37 people who approved of Bush, over 65% are retarded.
• The remaining 35% of Bush approvers are Bush's relatives.
• Over 96% of Bush's relatives remain in the group of 330.2892 million who disapproved of Bush.

Historians gave Bush worse ratings than the general public, according to Wikipedia:

In 2006, 744 professional historians surveyed by Siena College regarded Bush's presidency as follows: Great: 2%; Near Great: 5%; Average: 11%; Below Average: 24%; Failure: 58%. Thomas Kelly, professor emeritus of American studies at Siena College, said that "In this case, current public opinion polls actually seem to cut the President more slack than the experts do." Similar outcomes were retrieved by two informal surveys done by the History News Network in 2004 and 2008.

More on this later as the stats roll in and Obama undoes the Bush and Cheney damage...














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