Americans Split Between Obama and Bush

[Reaganfan]

Who would you rather have as President today?

Barack Obama: 48%
George Bush: 46%

Wow.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamabush-nearly-divided.html

[Reaganfan]

I love the way this country is slowly but surely tilting right again

[Oakvale]

Outlier!

I mean, come on, who forgets Bush's disastrous Presidency that quickly? Warren Harding was better than Bush.

EDIT: If it's genuinely representative, America is doomed. Holy sh**t.

[??????????]

Of course Harding was better then Bush. Harding was a very good president.

[angus]

Who would you rather have as President today?

Barack Obama: 48%
George Bush: 46%

Wow.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamabush-nearly-divided.html

Interesting.  I suppose folks are blaming the high unemployment rate, the increasing budget deficit, and health care reform on Obama.  To be fair, none of those are entirely his creation.  You could argue that health care reform and the deficit increases are partially his doing, but the high unemployment rate is not.  On the other hand, you could also, at least partially, blame two of those three on the Bush administration as well.  So it's a wash.  Maybe that's why they're breaking about even.

I did notice that it was question five on the poll, following three questions in a row about health care reform, and questions three and four were specifically about repealing.  For all his faults, health care reform is the only one of the three aforementioned problems that Bush had nothing to do with, and that ordering may have been leading.  It might explain such a close result.  I know that if you get me thinking about health care reform for more than a couple of seconds, I start to dislike Obama.  And I'm pretty rational.  And I voted for Obama.  But I voted for him in spite of, and not because of, his rhetoric about insurance reform.  Still, I can imagine the effect that particular ordering would have on me, and I might just utter "bush" in answer to the fifth question as well.  Although later I'd probably think about and say,  "well, maybe not."

[Eraserhead]

Who would you rather have as President today?

Barack Obama: 48%
George Bush: 46%

Wow.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamabush-nearly-divided.html

Interesting.  I suppose folks are blaming the high unemployment rate, the increasing budget deficit, and health care reform on Obama.  To be fair, none of those are entirely his creation.  You could argue that health care reform and the deficit increases are partially his doing, but the high unemployment rate is not.  On the other hand, you could also, at least partially, blame two of those three on the Bush administration as well.  So it's a wash.  Maybe that's why they're breaking about even.

I did notice that it was question five on the poll, following three questions in a row about health care reform, and questions three and four were specifically about repealing.  For all his faults, health care reform is the only one of the three aforementioned problems that Bush had nothing to do with, and that ordering may have been leading.  It might explain such a close result.  I know that if you get me thinking about health care reform for more than a couple of seconds, I start to dislike Obama.  And I'm pretty rational.  And I voted for Obama.  But I voted for him in spite of, and not because of, his rhetoric about insurance reform.  Still, I can imagine the effect that particular ordering would have on me, and I might just utter "bush" in answer to the fifth question as well.  Although later I'd probably think about and say,  "well, maybe not."

Good point.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Wow.

[Free Trade is managed by the invisible hand.]

In 2014 the Unemployment rate is expected to drop to 5%, but people may become more supportive of obama if they notice the fact that the unemployment rate is decreasing even before we reach that 5% number.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I bet Jimmy Carter was really popular during the spring/summer of 1982.

[TheGreatOne]

Republicans have made some tremendous gains in the last few 18 months, becaue they've successfully and unfairly blamed Obama for the economic collapse and Unemployment numbers as well as the rising deficit.  They've also gained much of their ground on the Healthcare fight.  However, it looks like momentum is slowing for Republicans as the unemployment numbers have improved in March and the Healthcare Bill has passed.  If April and May unemployment numbers improve it will be bad news for Republicans.  This is not the same scenario as 1994 and Barack Obama is not Jimmy Carter.

This poll on Bush just displays the ignorance of the American people.   

   

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Of course Harding was better then Bush. Harding was a very good president.

[Phony Moderate]

Only 6% undecided?

[k-onmmunist]

Of course Harding was better then Bush. Harding was a very good president.

[Sewer]

I hope Canada will welcome me.

[King]

I call BS on this... look at the splits.

Democrats
Obama 86%
Bush 10%

Republicans
Bush 87%
Obama 10%

Independents
Obama 49%
Bush 37%

In what universe does that eventually add up to 48-46 Obama?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Bush 2012! 

[War on Want]

I call BS on this... look at the splits.

Democrats
Obama 86%
Bush 10%

Republicans
Bush 87%
Obama 10%

Independents
Obama 49%
Bush 37%

In what universe does that eventually add up to 48-46 Obama?

There are equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats in this poll, which almost never happens. Democrats normally outnumber Republicans by a few percentage points, even in bad times, so I guess that this was a bad sample.

If the numbers were 38-36-26, Obama would have gotten 51% in this poll.

[Reaganfan]

I don't know why Dems are so mad...Obama wins this poll...

[Holmes]

Hoffman won by 15 points, just like PPP predicted, no?

[King]

I don't know why Dems are so mad...Obama wins this poll...

The same reason you're so excited.

Really, the only thing that bothers me is that PPP is actually running with these bogus party ID figures.  There are not more Republicans than Dems and Indies in this country.  Never have and never will.

[Reaganfan]

I don't know why Dems are so mad...Obama wins this poll...

The same reason you're so excited.

Really, the only thing that bothers me is that PPP is actually running with these bogus party ID figures.  There are not more Republicans than Dems and Indies in this country.  Never have and never will.

Wow...Americans split at whether they'd prefer Bush or Obama rite now...billboards of Bush being put up across America saying people miss him...

I bet George is lovin' this down in Texas.

[Holmes]

Obviously people miss Bush. Who do you think that 20% of people who always approve of horrible people in polls are?

[Devilman88]

People are reading to much into this poll..  This poll is like asking someone if they want to burn to death are freeze to death..

[King]

I don't know why Dems are so mad...Obama wins this poll...

The same reason you're so excited.

Really, the only thing that bothers me is that PPP is actually running with these bogus party ID figures.  There are not more Republicans than Dems and Indies in this country.  Never have and never will.

Wow...Americans split at whether they'd prefer Bush or Obama rite now...billboards of Bush being put up across America saying people miss him...

I bet George is lovin' this down in Texas.

This is the point of my post:
This is your head:

   
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[War on Want]

This poll is definitely crap. The PPP presidential poll that showed the same exact crosstabs had Obama only beating Palin by 2 and tied with Gingrich. Those are extreme outliers.