(Photo source: National Institutes of Health)
In case you were wondering why Mitt Romney
voluntarily injected George W. Bush into the 2012 campaign yesterday,
here's your answer:
Romney's net favorability is -25 this month at 33/58. That's actually a slight improvement from -28 a month ago at 29/57. To put those numbers into some perspective though, we were asked on Twitter this morning whether Romney or George W. Bush is more popular. The answer is Bush by a wide margin. Last month we found 45% of voters rating him favorably to 46% with a negative opinion.
All I can say is: if you think hugging George W. Bush would make you more popular, then you're pretty damn unpopular.