Poll: George W. Bush is more popular than Mitt Romney (click title to entry - thank you)
The State Column
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Former President George W. Bush is more popular than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to a Bloomberg News National poll released Monday. Although Mr. Romney is the front-runner in the current race for the Republican presidential nomination by numerous measurements, including delegate count, and several national and state-level polls, the Michigan native has a lower net favorable rating than Mr. Bush among a sample of the voting age population.
Mr. Bush, whose job approval ratings sunk as low as 25 percent during his presidency, was an extremely unpopular president when he left the Oval Office. In fact, Mr. Bush’s job approval ratings peaked in the weeks after September 11th (climbing as high as 90 percent), before gradually falling throughout the rest of his presidency.
The fact that Mr. Bush has a higher net approval rating (45 percent) than Mr. Romney (42 percent) may reveal a lot about the current state of the Republican Party. Has Mr. Bush’s popularity improved over time or is Mr. Romney and the rest of the Republican presidential field an unsatisfactory group of candidates for American voters?
