Most despised politician

**matapule** · October 17th, 2009, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by TuNnL

I already went into that here........Try to keep up.

Oh pardon me for not hanging on every word you write on HT. What is it with you? You have something against old people?

In short, the global elitist agenda.

Har, har! Now there's some pseudo-intellectual babble for you! But regardless, Obama was elected by a significant majority based on the agenda he supported. Deal with it.

No kidding. I never said I supported the GOP either.

I know that, you support that paragon of reason, Ron Paul. But had you gone to politifact.com you would have seen a scorecard on Obama's agenda.

**Frankie's Market** · October 19th, 2009, 03:21 PM

I started off this thread highlighting John Edwards' fall from grace. Other people voiced their own thoughts on the matter. (Obama?!?) But Gallup did a poll which reflected what I've been saying all along.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/123698/Jo...ngs-Slide.aspx

Now, following his admission that that he had an extramarital affair during his 2008 presidential campaign and allegations that Edwards' campaign made illegal payments to his mistress, Edwards' favorable rating has dropped 27 percentage points. Gallup has never before found as steep a decline in consecutive measurements of a prominent figure using the favorable/unfavorable format, which it began using in 1992.

Edwards can take some comfort in knowing that he's not the most despised public figure out there,.... I think???

Edwards is far from the most reviled figure Gallup has polled about. His 57% unfavorable rating is well below those Gallup has measured for Osama bin Laden (97%), Saddam Hussein (96%), Mark Fuhrman (87%), Fidel Castro (83%), Monica Lewinsky (82%), and Yasser Arafat (80%). The highest unfavorable rating for a U.S. politician is 79% for David Duke.

**Vanguard** · October 19th, 2009, 04:05 PM

I wonder what Senator Baucus' unfavorable rating is right about now.

**AlohaKine** · October 19th, 2009, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Frankie's Market

I started off this thread highlighting John Edwards' fall from grace. Other people voiced their own thoughts on the matter. (Obama?!?) But Gallup did a poll which reflected what I've been saying all along.

Edwards is far from the most reviled figure Gallup has polled about. His 57% unfavorable rating is well below those Gallup has measured for Osama bin Laden (97%), Saddam Hussein (96%), Mark Fuhrman (87%), Fidel Castro (83%), Monica Lewinsky (82%), and Yasser Arafat (80%). The highest unfavorable rating for a U.S. politician is 79% for David Duke.

Wow, 3% of Americans were not disfavorable of Bin Laden. I'd like to meet some of that 3% and show those sickos what's up.