By DemocracyRules
h/t AFP
USA Today published an interesting poll on Dec 26. Gallup has done the same survey every year since 1948. This year the data were collected by phone Dec 12 -- 14, with 1,008 respondents.
For the last seven years, Bush has been the country's most-admired man. In Dec 2001, a few months after 9/11, Bush received the highest support in the history of the survey, at 39%.
The MSM didn’t report this until now. These data change the way I understand Bush’s role in the leadership of America.
This survey reveals that Bush mainly sustained his popularity over a long grueling, thankless time period. The MSM and other socialist groups were constantly trashing Bush for “invading Iraq for no reason”, “losing the Iraq war”, "killing millions of innocent Afghani's and Iraqi's", “violating the Constitution,” “not doing enough to stop terrorism,” etc., etc. But through all this, the average American regarded Bush as "the most admired man in America.”
John McCain, Billy Graham, Sarah Palin, and Condoleezza Rice have also been highly ranked in this survey. This December, Palin was ranked the second most admired woman in America. This is amazing, given that she was virtually unheard of last year.
The Democrat-controlled Senate and Congress, however, still have an approval rating less than 10%.
These findings strongly reinforce another set of findings which are robust and hold steady year after year. The average American is a center-right conservative.
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