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Call Me Reagan, Don’t Call Me Carter or George W.
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Sep 25, 2010 04:23pm |
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| Category | Poll |
| News Date | Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Candidates, beware. If someone describes you as being like Ronald Reagan or even Bill Clinton, that’s a good thing in the minds of many voters. Comparisons to Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush are not so good.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that nearly half (47%) of Likely U.S. Voters say it’s a positive description if a political candidate is compared to Reagan. Twenty-two percent (22%) view it as a negative, while 28% think it’s somewhere in between the two.
Forty percent (40%) say a comparison to Clinton is a positive, but 30% see it as a negative. For 29%, it’s in between.
But just 19% consider it a positive description to say a candidate is like Carter. Forty-seven percent (47%) say that’s a negative description. Twenty-nine percent (29%) rate as in between a positive and a negative.
Even worse is to be compared to Bush. Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters view that as a negative description for a candidate. Only 16% see it as a positive comparison. Thirty-one percent (31%) place it in the middle somewhere.
Bush also brings up the rear when voters are asked which president has done the best job since he left office. Clinton now leads with 36% rating his post-White House performance as the best. Carter’s next with 25% support, down seven points from August 2009 when the man from Plains was first on the list. Seventeen percent (17%) think George H.W. Bush has been the best retired president, while 11% say that of his son, George W. |
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