COMPARE; bush versus Clinton...(if ya DARE, freeping rightwingnuts)

[LynnTheDem]

bush, January 2005; 52% Americans say bush "presidency" is a FAILURE.

Clinton, January 1999; 80% Americans say Clinton presidency is a SUCCESS.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060131-112847-3435r

[graywarrior]

1. Shoot. Bush has a mandate, fercrissakes.

[JuniperLea]

2. I heard on Air America this morning

That Bush's approval rating is below what Nixon's was when he was impeached!

:7


And Clinton's approval rating was in the 90's when he was impeached!



There's your comparison;)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Nixon was impeached?

[JuniperLea]

5. No, he stepped down...

Before they had a chance.





Why the nit pick? Just a little slip... sheesh.

[bluestateguy]

3. UPI was slightly misleading in this story

What UPI meant to say was that 80% of Americans felt the Clinton presidency was a success, which is not the same as an approval rating (though there will be some correlation).

http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=21208

Clinton never had a rating higher than 73%.

[JuniperLea]

6. I don't get the difference...

You approve... or you think he's a success...

You disapprove... or think he's a failure...

[bluestateguy]

8. It's not the same question

Any pollster, statistician or political science methodologist will tell you that.

The two responses would correlate quite a bit, as most people define a successful presidency on the basis of accomplishments that they favor as a matter of public policy. For example, one might ask me if I thought Abraham Lincoln was successful in his presidency. I would say yes, in that he did what he set out to do, and I supported his objectives. On the other hand, an honest Lincoln opponent could say that he was successful at accomplishing his objectives, but because he disagreed with those objectives, he could say that he disapproved of his handling of the presidency.

[JuniperLea]

9. Gotcha

Thanks:)

[Ksec]

7. We dont reeed no steeenkin polls...

:)