In survey of ten US presidents, Bush fares badly

[Jon8503]

Fri Dec 16, 2005 03:46 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush ranks as the least popular and most bellicose of the last ten U.S. presidents, according to a new survey.
Only nine percent of the 662 people polled picked Bush as their favorite among the last 10 presidents. John F. Kennedy topped that part of the survey, with 26 percent, closely followed by Bill Clinton (25 percent) and Ronald Reagan (23 percent).

Bush was also viewed as the most warlike president (43 percent), the worst for the economy (42 percent) and the least effective (33 percent). But he was rated most highly in response to a question on who would do the right thing even if it were unpopular.

The survey was conducted by the Chicago-based National Qualitative Centers, a marketing research company, as part of research for a forthcoming book on popular preferences, one of its authors, Ken Berwitz, said on Friday.

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=10617012&src=rss/ElectionCoverage

[deadparrot]

1. Less popular than Nixon. Well done, W. nt

[MadisonProgressive]

2. I give him props for

doing the wrong thing even if it were unpopular.

[skipos]

3. do the right thing even if it were unpopular?!?

When does he do the right thing? I must have missed that.
:shrug: