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Not imo,but conservatives love him
Conservative Republicans Still Widely Support Bush
Averaging just 29% job approval overall thus far in December
Published: Dec. 11, 2008 at 7:29 PM
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ -- George W. Bush remains popular among conservative Republicans (72% approve of him) despite his low overall approval rating. Meanwhile, moderate and liberal Republicans are as likely to disapprove as to approve of the job he is doing, and Democrats of all political orientations hold Bush in low regard.
These results are based on Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted Dec. 1-9, including interviews with more than 9,000 U.S. adults.
During this time, Bush has averaged 29% job approval among all Americans -- reflecting a slight improvement from the 25% approval rating he had at the time of the November election, yet still dismal by historical standards.
With such a low approval rating, it is hard to find many population subgroups that are favorable to Bush. A look at the groups giving Bush the 10 highest average approval ratings clearly shows how much one's opinion of the president is driven by political attitudes as opposed to demographic characteristics. Only four groups give Bush ratings in excess of 40% approval, and all are defined by political points of view. But because membership in these four groups overlaps (e.g., Republicans and conservative Republicans), when they are subdivided into mutually exclusive groups (as in the first graph), it really is only Americans who are both Republicans and conservatives who hold Bush in high esteem.
Was Reagan a conservative in your opinion ?With his fiscal irresponsibility and amnesty stance I dont think he was the conservative king that conservatives call him today
IMO Bush Sr was the most conservative president of my lifetime(born in 1969),and he was my second favorite president behind Clinton
And none of this obviously had anything to do with Barack.
Businesses out of their own greed are reluctant to hire, this despite businesses showing record profits.
Businesses are reluctant to loan money, this despite their borrowing rate is close to zero.
Wall street will payout record bonus this year in 2010, but they are also poised to cut back thousands of jobs, further hurting families and the NYC economy.
Fiscal conservatism is about cutting spending.
Or Cutting taxes appropriately so that revenues go up to balance budget.
It is not about increasing taxes.
That is for closet big government modern liberals.
Bush Sr was from the liberal wing of the republican party.
He broker his no new taxes pledge.
he was no conservative.
He put a stealth liberal on the supreme court (souter).
His son tried to do the same thing (miers)
Their family is eastern liberal power machine.
They are not true conservatives.
Neo cons were found by former socialists.
Or Cutting taxes appropriately so that revenues go up to balance budget.
It is not about increasing taxes.
That is for closet big government modern liberals.
Bush Sr was from the liberal wing of the republican party.
He broker his no new taxes pledge.
he was no conservative.
He put a stealth liberal on the supreme court (souter).
His son tried to do the same thing (miers)
Their family is eastern liberal power machine.
They are not true conservatives.
Neo cons were found by former socialists.
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Coincidentally 38% is also very close to Obamas current approval numbers, that was actually what i thought this thread was going to be about at first.
Its actually closer to Reagan's 1983 low of 35 % then Obamas current 49 %
38 % is still much higher then Bush's 25-29 % when he left office .