President George H.W. Bush received high marks from the American public for his handling of the first Gulf War. In August 1990, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, two-thirds of Americans favored ...

Earlier this year, Gallup asked Americans whether they approved of the job former presidents did in office. Bush had a 64% approval rating to only a 31% disapproval rating. Nobody came close to ...

His father George H.W. Bush had an end-of-term rating of 54 percent, while Jimmy Carter's rating was 44 percent. ... as measured by Gallup. Views of Mr. Bush's popularity are highly partisan.

One drawback: Gallup only began asking regular favorability questions in 1992, the final year of George H.W. Bush's presidency. The company continued through the presidencies of Clinton, ...

In July of 1988, a Gallup poll showed Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis leading George H.W. Bush (then the incumbent vice president) by 17 percentage points.

George H. W. Bush entered the presidency better prepared to lead the United States’ relations with the world than any U.S. president before or since. Like Richard Nixon, Bush had served in Congress ...

Neither George H.W. Bush nor Bill Clinton nor George W. Bush saw his party gain congressional seats when he captured the presidency. ... In a Gallup Poll taken the weekend before the election, ...

Across Gallup’s entire history of presidential job-approval polling — dating back to 1945 — every president but one has had a higher job-approval rating.

George H.W. Bush was in trouble. It was July 1988 and Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for president, was on a roll after his party’s convention in Atlanta. A Gallup poll showed Mr ...