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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-09 10:34 PM
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From the "This Was Inevitable" Department: HW Bush AND Carter Twice As Popular, Post-W.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/07/polls.former.presidents/index.html

Sixty percent of Americans questioned in a CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday morning say they approve of how George H.W. Bush handled his job as president, and 64 percent give a thumbs up to former President Carter.

Those numbers are about double the approval ratings each had when he was voted out of office after one term.

"Time has been kind to the former presidents," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. "Carter's approval rating was just 31 percent on the eve of the 1980 election, and was at 34 percent in late December of that year, the last measure taken during his presidency. But now 64 percent approve of how Carter handled his job as president."


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The most recent CNN/Opinion Research poll on the outgoing Bush, taken in late December, found his approval rating at 27 percent.

"The current occupant of the White House probably hopes history will treat him as kindly as it did his predecessors," Holland said.

None of those ratings compare with Obama's, who has seen approval ratings as high as 82 percent during the presidential transition, Holland said.

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Quiz Master Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-09 10:49 PM
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1. Let's face it....
Everyone looks better next to W...ex-spouses, in-laws, the annoying guy at your office who listens to "Who Let the Dogs Out" 24 hours a days....

More reminders of why here.
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