President Bush's Approval Rating Highest In Utah

[Montauk6]

SALT LAKE CITY President Bush is more popular in Utah than any other state.

That's according to the SurveyUSA report.

The survey says the Iraq war, the unstable economy, the much-criticized federal response to Hurricane Katrina have all contributed to President Bush's image problems.

According to the report only 38 percent of Americans give Bush the thumbs up, the lowest approval ratings of his presidency.

Utah is the only state to provide Bush with an approval rating above 60 percent. While 18 states give Bush a disapproval rating of at least 60 percent.

[Spinzonner]

1. Are Mormons allowed to drink Kool Aid ?

[FormerRepublican]

7. Yes, but they shouldn't be allowed to have what's IN the kool-aid.

[eallen]

11. Allowed?! Hell, it's mandatory.

[Patchuli]

2. Maybe he can go be their governor? nt

[FormerRepublican]

3. That's because there are too many people here who are criminally...

...stupid. I despair of this state. Wish I could move.

:cry: :scared:

[medeak]

14. I sorry...

there are some cool gay people there tho!

[ingac70]

4. What do you expect.....

From fundies who marry multiple nieces and fiddle with their own daughters.

Utah is more backward than Alabama.

[Strawman]

9. If he married the twins, he'd be over 80% there

[reality based]

5. Sadly, I has this news in mind when I ran off a couple of Mormon boys

this morning. I could have been a little gentler. But I'm tired of the Xtian death cults.

[npincus]

6. thanks a lot, Donny

One Bad Apple indeed; the whole gov't is infested.

[Broken_Hero]

8. Its a mormon state...

And as an unactive member of the church, i can say this. The evangelists and the mormons are very similiar in some regards. When i was still an avid church goer the bishop would talk/discuss about many political events, like gay marriage, abortion...what bills to support, which things to vote against, whom to support etc etc. The mormons and Evangelicals share a sort of fervor, i haven't seen before...

I snapped to when our bishop started talking about how gays/lesbians are evil and they are living in sin etc etc, and i was like, i know a good number of gays/lesbian, and am friends with a good few of them, they are not evil...this man, is lying, and people are shaking yes to everything this bishop is saying, i kind of felt like Neo in the Matrix...it was, very hard to undue the programming, as a matter of fact, i don't think its ever possible for me to completely get rid of it all, but i try to approach things with an open mind...

I think thats why Bush is getting so much support, the mormons church supports him, and it trickles down throught he churches, to the wards, to the branches...my family is still avid mormons, and my mom has a hard time acceptingg that GWB is even capable of doing anything wrong, or bad..its not that she doesn't think its possible, its more like, she doesn't want to know....

[Labalanza]

10. the fact that you turned out well...

..gives one hope. I did spend a fair bit of time there when my girlfriend was in school at the UofU (located in the heathen den of SLC). Things I remember: LDS = procreative, friendly in a Stepford Wives kind of way. Poor record of inclusion with non-LDS folks. Utah leads the nation in Jello consumption...

[Broken_Hero]

12. Yes it gives one hope...:)

But it carries over to other religions also. My best friend, who is in the Salvation Army church had an awakening much like mine also, his major, or whatever wsa preaching about how Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering (A card game) are the devil, evil, etc etc...i play magic, and d and d, and my friend has seen me and a huge number of others play these games, and he knew taht his major/whatever was lying also...he also, took a breath and took a step away from the controlling factors of church. the mormon church is very tightly rounded around its members, i was pushed to marry another mormon, i was persuaded to not marry/date or talk to others of another faith...unless of course, i was pushing the mormon view on them....

[theantirobot]

13. The Mormon church does not endorse any politicians.

[medeak]

15. I would welcome you except for your post....

are you serious? Had a company in SLC... where the heck (mormon language) are you getting this info?

[theantirobot]

18. I was an active member for 19 years,

Show me any official church reference that endorses any politician. Every election year the bishop would stand up and say, the church endorses no politician. It's members may give you a different impression. Especially in Utah, believe it or not even Mormons outside of Utah think Utah Mormons are off.

[Broken_Hero]

16. the mormon church

doesn't officially endorse any politicians, but they do endorse them off the record...true as i am from Alaska, our bishop told us to vote against abortion rights, and gay marriage...he told us what politicans we "should" vote for...Tony Knowles for governor for example, he was mentioned by name, in our chapel....they may not endorse them nationally, or they might, i'm not entirely sure, because i have been out of the cycle for 9 yrs now...

[medeak]

17. check out

http://www.exmormon.org/

have a 50 yr history with the church... don't want to rain on your beliefs..but keep an open mind.