Poll: What Did Truman Do to Warm, Angry Kittens?
Of course there are all kinds of problems comparing different polls across long periods of time, but this interesting chart from the Roper Center (scroll down to "Comparing Past Presidential Performance) made me wonder what was going on in 1952 to warrant Truman's 22 percent approval rating.
Seems there was a stalemate in Korea, including riots at a POW camp where prisoners were being mistreated, an ugly influence peddling scheme, and charges of corruption in a federal funding program. Curious.
22 here we come?
posted by Corresponding Secretary General at 10:45 AM
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If you don't like him, you hate him. Behind the numbers a bit, Rasmussen has about 40% of voters strongly disapproving GB, 21 strongly supporting, suggesting that the pool of real supporters is very small; it's probably a hard knot of the deluded, 1 in 5 who can never be disuaded by the truth behind the distracting twinkle of the folds around his beady little reptillian eyes.
22 is the basement; when Johnson and Truman were near this tens of thousands of soliders were dead, and there was a draft.
In any event, GB's (I do not wish to even write the name of the "Unclean One") pretty well politically dead; if this port deal collapses you can write off his presidency as totalled.
speaking of polls, "Cheney now only eight points ahead of eating a rat on TV"
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