Though unscientific I still got a kick out of an AOL poll that asked users their views of President George “Jesus is my favorite philosopher” Bush and President Bill “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” Clinton.
As of this writing, nearly 500,000 votes have been cast and the winner is…Bill Clinton. On the question of who’s more trustworthy, Clinton outpolled Bush 62% to 38%. As for who’s the better president, there’s no contest. Clinton won by a landslide -- 67% to 33%.
And since today is International Students Day, a poll by the Harvard Institute of Politics (and you don’t get more scientific than that) is instructive. The "kids are alright" in that they likewise rate Bush at the bottom:
College students, tracking with other Americans, give President Bush an all-time low approval rating. As recent national polls show Americans giving President Bush near historic low approval ratings below forty percent (40 percent), only forty-one percent (41 percent) of college students say they approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as President, down six points from just seven months ago. What's more, only eleven percent (11 percent) say they trust the President to do the right thing all of the time, down from twenty-two percent (22 percent) from Fall 2001 IOP polling. Fifty-two percent (52 percent) of college students said they trust the United Nations to do the right thing all or most of the time, while only thirty-nine percent (39 percent) said the same about the President.
