Bloomberg: Americans Want Different Type of President Next Time, Poll Says

[ProSense]

Americans Want Different Type of President Next Time, Poll Says

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Three in five Americans want the next U.S. president to be completely different from incumbent George W. Bush, according to a poll by Time magazine.

Bush's policies in Iraq and high gasoline and energy prices had a ``very negative'' effect on his overall job rating for 45 percent of respondents, according to the poll, conducted between Nov. 29 and Dec. 1. The results showed 36 percent would like the next president to have policies similar to those of Bush, compared with 60 percent who want a different type of leader.

The findings indicate Bush is failing to reverse flagging approval ratings after laying out his strategy for Iraq in a Nov. 30 speech. The poll showed 41 percent approve of the job Bush is doing while 53 percent disapprove, little changed from results in September after Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast. Of those who disapprove, 76 percent said they were unlikely to change their opinion of Bush.

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Half of those polled said the U.S. was wrong to go to war, and 51 percent said the country's actions in Iraq have worsened the danger of terrorist attacks against the U.S. Forty four percent say going to war was right, and 41 percent said the U.S. is safer. The poll also showed that a majority of Americans, 60 percent, think the country is heading in the wrong direction.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=at7vTVbeB_iU

[Arkana]

1. Thus giving him a 36% rating--LBJ late-term caliber.

Way to spend your "political capital", you meathead. :eyes:

[win_in_06]

2. He should have invested some of it

[smirkymonkey]

3. Yeah - one who isn't a psychotic idiot would be a nice change.

A sock puppet would be an improvement.

[No Exit]

15. You must've read my mind!

[Wickerman]

4. 90 percent would like the next to have a brain

the other 10% are the ones Jr. was working for this term. You know, those guys who had their taxes reduced by billions.

[rodeodance]

5. I want to see the look on W's face when he reads this!!!!!!

Three in five Americans want the next U.S. president to be completely different from incumbent George W. Bush, according to a poll by Time magazine.

[MADem]

6. Ha!! Like he READS.......!!!!!

He has his peeps who tell him everything he needs to know...the way he struts around, they probably told him his ratings have plunged from Saddam-like 99 percent to say, 85%...and that is what is accounting for his scowling of late!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. good point. When he sees the DVD, then.

[melody]

7. One that isn't a sociopathic moron would be nice

Hell, I'd take Richard Nixon back in a heartbeat if the only other choice was this clown.

[catmother]

8. people are finally waking up from a deep sleep. n/t

[Imagine My Surprise]

9. Unfortunately, they are still a bit groggy

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[Cocoa]

10. Bush fatigue

a nostalgia for a competent president such as Clinton, whom the public liked, despite the whores talk about "Clinton fatigue."

[Skittles]

12. how about a real, elected president

that will be nice

[0rganism]

13. Then we need at least 80% of that 60% to make it to the polls in 2008

Otherwise, the 36%ers will have it locked up again.

[Doctor_J]

14. Sane? Smart? Sober? Human?

This takes in a lot of territory.