Breaking News! Americans like Obama!

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Fri Dec 26, 2008 6:42 PM EST

Article Source: Salon.com

politics, obama, bush, republican, democrat, polls, gallup-poll

In a new USA TODAY/Gallup poll, a sample of 1,008 Americans picked president-elect Barack Obama as the man they admire most. No president-elect has topped the poll since war hero Dwight Eisenhower 56 years ago.

Thirty-two percent of respondents picked Obama, while runner-up George Bush notched just five percent. In further parallels with 1952, that matches Harry Truman's performance in the Gallup poll. Bush has long had only Truman as company for least popular president in contemporary opinion polls. His ratings, which have long languished in the 20s and 30s, are similar to those that Truman earned during his second term, as troops were bogged down in Korea. Bush's numbers, however, have stayed lower, and for longer, than Truman's.

Naturally, the right will jump on this as *irrational Bush hatred* and "Obama messianic complex," but I think it's kind of hard to refute a Gallup Poll, so I guess it's official: Bush is repudiated, and Obama elevated.

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Simba1chief

I guess it's official: Bush is repudiated, and Obama elevated.

This will serve as a great counter to all the right wing lies....

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#1 - Fri Dec 26, 2008 6:44 PM EST

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HCG76

here, here. When Bush won the second term with lies I told everybody to wait and see what he could do, to give him a chance. Damn I wish someone would have stopped me.

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#1.1 - Fri Dec 26, 2008 6:47 PM EST

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Simba1chief

I hear ya - I voted for him the first time and am now on his ass like only the betrayed *can* be

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1 vote

#1.2 - Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:16 PM EST

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HCG76

yup I taught he was going to be a cowboy with the war going in with guns blaizing and end this whole mess in a few months but I guess we don't get cowboys from Texas anymore.

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#1.3 - Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:20 PM EST

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