George W. Bush grimpe dans les sondages

Dans mes souvenirs de l'assermentation de Barack Obama à laquelle j'ai assistée en 2008, il y aura toujours une place pour la colère manifestée par les 1,8 millions de personnes à l'endroit de George W. Bush. On le tournait en ridicule par une salve d'applaudissements lorsque l'hélicoptère qui le ramenait au Texas s'est élevé. Il semble qu'avec le temps (et/ou la performance d'Obama...)ses concitoyens l'apprécient un peu plus. Selon ce sondage Gallup 49% de nos voisins du sud ont maintenant une opinion favorable de leur ancien Président. Il faut préciser que les américains sont généralement plus tendres avec leurs anciens leaders.

 "Bush has maintained a fairly low profile in the four years since he left office. However, he returned to the public eye this year with the April opening of his presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

 Bush left office with 40% viewing him favorably and 59% unfavorably in January 2009. That worsened to 35% favorable and 63% unfavorable in March 2009, but his favorable rating recovered to the mid-40% range by 2010.

 The June 1-4 poll shows further improvement in Americans' ratings of Bush, which had not been more positive than negative since April 2005. Prior to then, Americans had always viewed Bush more favorably than unfavorably, including an 87% favorable rating in November 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That is one percentage point below the all-time high Gallup has measured for any public figure, shared by Colin Powell (2002) and Tiger Woods (2000).

 Bush's lowest favorable rating was 32% in April 2008, as the economy was in recession and gas prices were headed toward record highs in the U.S. Also at the time, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were engaged in a spirited campaign to become the Democratic nominee who would run for president to succeed Bush.

 http://www.gallup.com/poll/163022/former-president-george-bush-image-ratings-improve.aspx