Fun Fact of the Day: Bush Got a Bigger Approval Rating Bounce for Catching Saddam Than Obama Got for Killing Bin Laden…
And Bush didn’t have a fawning MSM to help pump up his numbers.
(CNSNews.com) — President George W. Bush got a bigger bounce in his Gallup job approval rating for capturing Saddam Hussein than President Barack Obama got for killing Osama in Laden.
Obama got a 6-point bounce in his Gallup job approval after he announced that U.S. Navy SEALS had raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Bush got either a 7-point or a 9-point bounce—depending on the day you calculate from (Gallup used both figures) — after he announced that U.S. forces in Iraq had captured alive former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Obama’s approval rating was at 46 percent for the three-day period ending on April 30 and again for the three-day period ending on May 1. Late on Sunday, May 1, Obama announced U.S. forces had killed bin Laden. After that, Obama’s job approval climbed for three straight days, peaking at 52 percent for the three-day period ending on May 4.
“Americans’ approval of President Barack Obama is up six points after the death of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid on the al Qaeda leader’s Pakistan compound,” Gallup reported on May 5.
However, Obama’s post-bin-Laden approval remained at its 52 percent peak for just one day.
For the three day period ending on May 5, Obama’s job approval dropped back down to 51 percent and has remained at that level for the three-day periods ending on May 6, 7, and 8.
Depending on the day you start counting, President George W. Bush’s job approval jumped either 9 points or 7 points following his announcement that U.S. troops had captured Saddam. Gallup used both figures.
Bush announced on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2003, that Saddam Hussein had been found literally hiding in a hole in the ground in Iraq. On that very day, Bush’s job approval started rising.
“Bush’s approval is now at 63%, the highest since last June, and seven percentage points higher than what Gallup obtained in a Dec. 11–14 poll,” Gallup reported on Dec. 18, 2003 — citing a poll conducted on Dec. 15–16, 2003.
“Bush’s job approval rating started to gain on Sunday, Dec. 14, the day of the announcement,” Gallup said. “If interviews for that day are excluded, Bush’s pre-Hussein capture approval rating, obtained on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday was actually 54%, suggesting his approval rallied by nine points.”
Posted by ZIP on Monday, May 9, 2011, at 6:45 pm | 
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What was the price of gas when we got Saddam? And what is it now? Its still the economy stupid.
Thats because they did’nt have to drag Bush off the golf course to make a call…………FUBHO!!
Yup…..this was Obama’s finest moment. It’s all downhill from here.
There is no way to top this fake accomplishment.
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This just goes to show you the intelligence level of most of America. I’m sure there are still millions of people out there that would love to have BumbleIdiot Bush at the helm…. We had two terms of Bush that drove the US straight down into the ground, as he was walking out of office, leaving a complete fkn mess for Obama to clean up. Anyone who likes Bush, I just want to smack the shyt of out them right in front of their mother.
Tony you dickless bastard………….bring it!!
@ Tony,
How’s that Hope and Change working for you as opposed to your world under Bush? Working? Taxes acceptable to you? Cruising frequently in a new car with these gas prices? How’s your disposable income? Stock portfolio humming? College loans paid off? And, Tony, have you noticed the obsene expansion of the National Debt under Obama? (That’s those very, very, big numbers seen on television and in the newspapers that educated people seem to be upset about for some strange reason).
Or are you one of the OEP (Obama Excuse Patrol) that keeps thinking that he’s going to get it all together one of these days, it just takes a while, give the poor guy a break, will you?!?
When I read your comment “I just want to smack the shyt of out them right in front of their mother”, I too, have an equal reaction to you and your strong feelings. Except I don’t want to slap you.
I want to send your mother a sympathy card.
Grow up.
Smokey, Ditto! bring it Tony, you ignorant asshole Bush has more integrity in one of his turds than you and Obama have collectively, go troll somewhere else, you’re outgunned.
@Tony:
I like W. Care to back it up…?? Bring it punk…
Glad you showed up guys…………did’nt want to have all the fun by myself……
@Smokey: Notta prob.
@Smokey: My pleasure
Tony,don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out of America.
@ Tony
Bring it on – you need to read………..AND comprehend.
obama is OUT in 2012 – get used to it!
God bless America, President Bush and our courageous troops!
You know, even in their “finest momment” the White House Staff could not help themselves. Did you notice how many times the story changed over the course of the first day alone? And that is just the “official” reports mind you, not the leaked ones.
Anyone seriously going back and trying to research this before the election next year is going to have to wonder about the ease at which the Obama Administration has come to using “creative fabrication” (lies) to paint themselves in a better light. They didn’t get their stories straight, and kept changing them to try and line them up. It was somewhat of a “Keystone Cop” type comedy, except that it wasn’t really very funny. They have just about as much “plausible deniability” as Nixon did about Watergate. Still, the underlying thing going on in Watergate was bad, and killing bin Laden was (from our point of view) a *good* thing. So why was/is there a need to lie about how it went down and what *really* happened versus the “stinks like a dead fish” story about quickly burying the body at sea?
I think NPR is liberally biased. But even they know that they can’t change the *supposed* facts (as they were reported) too much or their credibilty (which is marginal, but their only *real* hope of avoiding defunding) goes in the toilet. Read the time line here and tell me just how each part makes sense:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/03/135951504/timeline-the-raid-on-osama-bin-ladens-hideout
Have you noticed that Hilary Clinton has been fairly quiet about this? Could it be that she has the political sense to understand just what a quagmire this oaf and his staff of “community (ACORN) organizers” has created?
And she *could* still run against Obama in the Primary. I’ll bet she has a *lot* of inside poop on the SOB sitting in the Oval Office right now. I think she won’t, but only because a run against him would weaken her party too much. Were the Democrats still at the helm in Congress, I bet she would have run against him, and beat him this time!
I don’t doubt Osama is dead. I doubt the “story” we are getting from the White House is anything even close to the truth in the details. Too many contridictions and things that don’t add up. If anyone can explain how *everything* that has come out of the White House (even so far, I am not sure the story is not going to change any more) is *all* truthful, they are an absolute genius! Not that I care, really. Obama has done too many back room deals and slinky and stinky things to *ever* be considered anything close to “transparent” in the way he rules. Yeah, I think he thinks he is some sort of King, and that his appointment is somehow “divine” in nature. Otherwise, he would really care about the “common man” that he has no possible way of saying that his actions prove that he does.
“Anyone who likes Bush, I just want to smack the shyt of out them right in front of their mother.”
Ah, yes. Another “tolerant and intellectual” liberal. I love online tough guys.
LOL
Of course, we all know that liberals are cowardly little bitches, so Tony’s talk is all the more laughable.