A presidential approval rating to slit your wrists by
posted at 5:22 pm on June 16, 2006 by Allahpundit
Here. The one I have in mind has nothing to do with Bush — or with Clinton, for that matter.
You know the one I mean.
Dear god.
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Crrraaaaaaappppp.
The kool-aid appears to be working on the mushminds.
At least Johnson is 41-41…I think he should be below Nixon, with Carter next to worst.
Johnson and Carter gave us the welfare state we so gloriously sustain even though we know it is a sham.
NTWR on June 16, 2006 at 5:29 PM
Most notable and what “jumped off the page” is Jimmy Carter’s unbelievable rating of 61 percent positive, 34 percent negative. Where did they take this poll, San Francisco?
I put little stock in polls because I can take a poll and depending upon who, where and what I ask, skew it precisely the way I want it to read.
If Clinton and Carter’s retroactive ratings are rising, we are all in a pack of… well, trouble. Lots of it. Unless, of course, they are rising because they are being compared to Bush. Come to think of it, we’re in a pack of it either way.
ForYourEdification on June 16, 2006 at 5:30 PM
Anyone who thinks Kennedy was a great president needs to go read the chapter about the Cuban Missile Crisis in ‘On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace’ by Donald Kagan. If it wasn’t for his fear of domestic political pressure, Kruschev’s gambit might have paid off.
Kennedy is sooooooo overrated. Other than being a supply sider I can’t think of anything good about him.
Of course, I wonder who the heck they are polling when Jimmy Carter, by far the worst president of my lifetime (which began during LBJ’s presidency) gets a 61% approval rate. Did they forget about how absolutely miserable this country was in the late 70′s?
thirteen28 on June 16, 2006 at 5:32 PM
At least Jimmah is trending downward (how in God’s name he managed to edge so close to 70% is a mystery of Lovecraftian overtones — Things Best Left Unknown). Maybe once he shuffles off this mortal coil and is out of the public eye for a few years we’ll see some honest historical retrospectives of his term and the decades’ worth of damage he did, and those numbers will reach a more realistic level.
But I ain’t holding my breath.
Il Padrino on June 16, 2006 at 5:35 PM
This shows, to me at any rate, that the MSM is still incredibly powerful. Clinton gets puff coverage on everything he does, and no reporter will touch his dark side nowadays. Likewise Kennedy and Johnson (who was awful in every way). Carter should be the first to achieve negative numbers, but again puff coverage bouys him beyond all reason. He was a terrible president and he is an awful man now.
At least Reagan’s approval is high. He didn’t leave office with that much approval in the bank. And the MSM hasn’t been able to destroy his image in all these years of trying.
Bryan on June 16, 2006 at 5:36 PM
But, thirteen28…
It’s SOOOOOOOOO much more miserable now… with this skyhigh unemployment, out of control energy prices and massive inflation!!!
Hoodlumman on June 16, 2006 at 5:37 PM
Hoodlumman:
“It’s SOOOOOOOOO much more miserable now… with this skyhigh unemployment, out of control energy prices and massive inflation!!!”
That was sarcasm, right?
:-))
Looking through those poll number even further, it showed that 42% of the ‘Republicans’ polled retroactively approved to Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Where did they find these ‘Republicans’? France?
The mind boggles.
thirteen28 on June 16, 2006 at 5:39 PM
Like Bryan posted, it shows the MSM’s influence on the masses. The alternative media just has to keep at it.
JFK’s assassination was traumatic for all of us. I can somewhat understand his deification. But Carter ???
dman on June 16, 2006 at 5:52 PM
Polls are horse$h!t, as far as I am concerned. JFK was, and is, a myth kept alive by the fawning press and the few sycophants left from his administration. He was popular because he had a pretty wife and was passable looking on TV…Hollywood and the Sinatra Mob had a lot to do with his success….certainly not his political strategy. Old daddy Joe bought his success, his wife and his political career till a bullet ended it and THAT is why he is thought of fondly….DAllAS had everything to do with it. And then there is Clinton..do not even get me started on that scum…I wage my political dollars on the liks of Reagan…George W and Nixon…yes, I said Nixon. He did something wrong and left office not to put the American people through an impeachment process…he was a stand up guy, as far as I am concerned….The rest…well, history is the judge. But, please….JFK…get real!!!!!
Sandys Beach on June 16, 2006 at 5:52 PM
…AND..I am not done….Jimmy Carter…..excuse me but how many remember the gas lines, double digit inflation, and the stinking hostage situation. I hate seeing that peanut eating grin of his and who remembers when the WIFE, Roslyn, was sitting in on his cabinet meetings??? Air was easier to breathe once Reagan took office. Talk about your ‘morning in America’….I felt as if we came through the plague and the survivors had to rebuild the stinking planet, for crying out loud. I am pissed…these polls are crap!!!!
Sandys Beach on June 16, 2006 at 5:59 PM
Carter got 61% approval? Oh vomit.
violet on June 16, 2006 at 6:10 PM
Its nothing new. Opinions about Presidents always tend to improve as time goes by and memories get shorter.
I remember sitting in my PoliSci class 25 years ago asking the professor about how Carter will be perceived as time goes by. The Gallup Poll proves him right.
GT on June 16, 2006 at 6:10 PM
Jimmy Carter’s poll was held in Teheran.
Kid from Brooklyn on June 16, 2006 at 6:11 PM
Sandy’s Beach:
“…AND..I am not done….Jimmy Carter…..excuse me but how many remember the gas lines, double digit inflation, and the stinking hostage situation”
(raising hand) … ME!! I remember! Heck, I was only 12 when he was elected and 16 when he was (thankfully) bounced out of office by Reagan, but one didn’t need to be an expert or even experienced in things political to know what a truly, awful, inept, pathetic excuse for a president he was … and that’s giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Believe me, I’m no fan of Clinton at all, but I’d take him over Carter in a nanosecond.
thirteen28 on June 16, 2006 at 6:18 PM
Quick – buy stock in Prozac!
Khyber Pass on June 16, 2006 at 6:19 PM
What was in the water in 1999? Or did the Y2K scare some people into being pro-allpastpresidents.
Kennedy turned the Oval office into a brothel long before Clinton did, but this is nuts. Did hey take this poll near the Kennedy compound in Mass?
But Carter? What did he do? Jimmy Carter, right?
shooter on June 16, 2006 at 6:37 PM
Under Clinton’s Rapacy :
Accused rape
Perjury
Disbarment
Abuse of power
Giving new meaning to term Head of State
Giving new meaning to the Oral Office
Highest Tax Increase in US History
And that’s just for starters. Yet a 61% approval rating. What Next? If William Jefferson Clinton made President, why not William Jefeerson?
MaiDee on June 16, 2006 at 6:48 PM
I would like to see those stats broken down by age of those polled.
It’s hard to believe that anyone who was alive and semi-coherent (which describes my usual condition at the time) in the late 70s could actually approve of peanut head’s miserable administration.
*barf*
speed647 on June 16, 2006 at 6:49 PM
Allahpundit, is this your revenge on those of us who won’t outright condemn Ann Coulter? It’s working … Prozac – NOW!
dman on June 16, 2006 at 6:59 PM
Gallop Poll failed again to reveal their geographical sampling data.
If they sample more in big cities, or only in big cities, then this would be the result.
We should start to demand them showing us a map of where they got the data from.
easy87us on June 16, 2006 at 7:02 PM
easy87
You hit the nail on the head. Where and who they interviewed will shed an incredible amount of light on this and can explain certain tendencies of this. Gallup doesn’t and as such I’m suspiscious. To be honest I’m that way with almost all polls including conservative ones because I’ve seen how easy it is to turn them based on just one-two key words. How’s this; what were these people’s opinions AT THE START AND END OF THOSE PRESIDENTS TERMS OR THEIR OPINIONS OF THEM JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO
That would be extremely useful information.
Defector01 on June 16, 2006 at 7:07 PM
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Breakning news from Mike Savage.
easy87us on June 16, 2006 at 7:09 PM
Bwahahah! Clinton is on a par with Carter! I thought he was “The Greatest President of the 20th Century”.
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Rowane on June 16, 2006 at 7:34 PM
Ever since Carter was attacked by a killer rabbit while on a fishing trip, most Americans stood behind our fearless leader. He showed great courage by wacking that beast with an oar from his boat. Yes, Carter was a great president, and defender of Nasty God Awful Killer Rabbits.
SparkyFD on June 16, 2006 at 8:35 PM
Again with the polls? When will we ever learn.
I guess that Kerry actually did win his race in ’04′. The polls tell us so.
Wake up people!
DannoJyd on June 17, 2006 at 4:37 AM
I just unpacked a bunch of books that are going to be used in social studies programs for kids next year. The theme is American Heroes and Jimmy Carter and LBJ are among them.
Is Reagan? No he isn’t – we can’t have that now can we?
Ellen on June 17, 2006 at 5:02 AM
I have read each above post….who the hell was polled in these “polls??” I am a monkey’s uncle (is that still a
pc statement in the new world of ours??)because I have NEVER been polled. And, who on God’s great earth, is recording history these days? Not preaching here, but I was raised by the good nuns in Brooklyn, NY…Dominicans and Josephites.. and they taught history like no one else could possibly….I owe my love of country and sharp opinion of things past to them…my heart breaks for todays young people…they are being hornswaggled by the media and the education system. The socialists in our government and MSM are trying to rewrite our history….this is such crap that for now I am speechless….that is just the tip of the iceberg..I wish I could go on furhter with this opinion, but that would mean a library of books just to say my piece. I am still so pissed off….!!POLL ARE CEEERAPP!!!!!
Sandys Beach on June 17, 2006 at 8:07 AM
..sorry…I meant to say POLLS ARE CEEEERAP! These things get my juices flowing and I type faster than I think. Still pissed, though.
Sandys Beach on June 17, 2006 at 9:17 AM
I’m right there with Sandys Beach too! I turned 18 in 1976, would have been my first time to vote and didn’t. I live in Georgia and Carter never did anything good as a governor here.
My daughter did a essay on Nixon in high school, and I didn’t even recall a majority of all he did. Nixon started equal rights for women and minorities and many other programs that Kennedy gets the credit for.
moonsbreath on June 17, 2006 at 11:12 AM
Thank you, moonsbreath…there are a boat load of us with like minds out there…truly the silent majority….we must be silent no more…get out and speak your mind..as my wonderful teachers taught…”speak softly but carry a big stick” from Teddy Roosevelt….that is the best we can do.. and VOTE….never forget our biggest and loudest sound is in the voting booth.
Sandys Beach on June 17, 2006 at 1:23 PM
I was a teenager during the Carter years, I remember them well. Inflation spiralling out of control, long lines at the gas station, the humiliation of the Iran hostage crisis.
I also remember being upset that in 1980 I was a year shy of voting age, I so badly wanted to vote for Ronald Reagan. I had to wait 4 years, but I’ll always be proud that my first vote for President was for Reagan.
Carter was a disaster and he is also the worst ex-President we’ve ever had.
Abigail Adams on June 17, 2006 at 1:57 PM
Watergate made up my mind when I was just a kid. Republican until further notice. Anything to make the self-loathing scumbags on the news and in Washington who never missed a chance to crap on our military so collectively angry and hostile was definitely who I was voting for. Besides, I’m still trying to figure out what Nixon did that every other president didn’t do… Oh yeah, he was Republican.
ecamorg on June 17, 2006 at 3:43 PM
They obviously polled the Dixie Chicks…
pullingmyhairout on June 18, 2006 at 2:34 PM
Ellen: what is the name of the textbook you reference?
honora on June 19, 2006 at 2:51 PM