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George W. Bush To Sean Hannity: I Don’t See Tea Party, I See Democracy

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Why should Matt Lauer get all the “fun”? He shouldn’t: Sean Hannity also sat George W. Bush down for an intimate, necktie-free conversation at the former president’s ranch in Crawford, TX. In a preview clip from the interview, which is set to air on Fox News tomorrow, Hannity asks Bush his thoughts on the Tea Party’s emergence. “Here’s what I see,” our most recent Republican president said. “I see democracy working.”

The self-proclaimed compassionate conservative sympathized with the anti-establishment movement, citing Senator Scott Brown‘s election as a watershed moment that changed attitudes and inspired concerned voters to “take to the street,” as well as to the polls.

According to early excerpts from the interview, Bush also discussed the different ways in which he and people like President Obama deliver their messages:

Words matter. The modern president is, of course, every word is analyzed. And sometimes I didn’t get my words right. And I never tell these audiences I speak to, you didn’t elect me cause I was Shakespeare.

(Some have argued that they didn’t elect him at all, but that’s a different matter altogether.) Other topics in the interview will include 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and other landmark moments of his eight-year tenure in the White House.

It’s hard to tell whether the Hannity interview will have the same kind of fireworks as the Lauer interview, which touched upon drunken hijinks, Kanye West, and a jarred (and jarring) fetus. But then again, Fox News is never short of fireworks, so hopefully the hour will be both highly informative and highly watchable.

Watch Bush’s thoughts on the Tea Party in the Hannity clip below:

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    The Theft of Democracy. Worked for George. Works for the Teabagers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    If the “so called” liberal media or mainstream media didn’t cover Fox or the Teabaging Republicans – I can guarantee you – the country would then address it’s Damn Problems that moron George Bush and his administration has caused.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Some have argued that they didn’t elect him at all, but that’s a different matter altogether

    Way to show your liberal colors, Ray!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Noland/1343446359 Dave Noland

    What a douche bag! “I see democracy working?” Lamest most shallow answer ever. Was he really president?

  • hanniballa

    “Some have argued that they didn’t elect him at all, but that’s a different matter altogether.” Do you call yourself a journalist?

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Some have argued that they didn’t elect him at all, but that’s a different matter altogether

    Way to show your liberal colors, Ray!!

    Hey, idiot, where were you in 2000? It’s not “liberal colors” if he’s referring to actual controversy, it’s fact then. Although to you the two are probably one in the same. Are you brain-dead, blinded, just plain stupid or a combination of all three?

  • tatboy

    (Some have argued that they didn’t elect him at all, but that’s a different matter altogether.)

    Thanks again for yet another example of liberal media bias. Sometimes it just sticks right out and says “Hi”.

  • Big Eddie

    James Gregory Backus said:
    The Theft of Democracy. Worked for George. Works for the Teabagers.

    Dave Noland said:
    What a douche bag! “I see democracy working?” Lamest most shallow answer ever. Was he really president?

    Two typical liberal dimbulbs . Obama’s loyal base .

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    tatboy said:
    (Some have argued that they didn’t elect him at all, but that’s a different matter altogether.)

    Thanks again for yet another example of liberal media bias. Sometimes it just sticks right out and says “Hi”.

    Thanks for yet another example of conservative idiocy when the journalist even links to the event he was referring to.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Big Eddie said:
    Two typical liberal dimbulbs . Obama’s loyal base .

    are you honestly going to make me post a Newleftmedia video here?

  • The Real Royal King

    Well, you didn’t see WMD’s either, so not a very good example.

    Isn’t it cute that W and O’Hannity wore matching outfits. I wonder if they washed and set each other’s hair before the cameras were turned on?

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Some have argued that they didn’t elect him at all, but that’s a different matter altogether

    Way to show your liberal colors, Ray!!

    Let’s never forget that W did not receive the most votes cast in 2000. Vice-President Gore did. And, don’t bring up the Electoral College. I know far better than you how the president is selected in Amerika. I also know that W was not the winner of the popular vote.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    King it doesn’t matter, since we elect our Presidents are elected via the Electoral College.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    James Gregory Backus said:
    If the “so called” liberal media or mainstream media didn’t cover Fox or the Teabaging Republicans – I can guarantee you – the country would then address it’s Damn Problems that moron George Bush and his administration has caused.

    Allow me to translate:

    If the media was totally and completely monolithic and hegemonic, then liberals could control the way people think and vote. But in an environment where there is a hint of pluralism, the liberal view of the cause of the country’s problems can’t prevail.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    George Bush is what you get when you elect a “C” student, or in his case gentlemen’s C student president.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    That was good GBR.
    That was very good.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    James Gregory Backus said:
    If the “so called” liberal media or mainstream media didn’t cover Fox or the Teabaging Republicans – I can guarantee you – the country would then address it’s Damn Problems that moron George Bush and his administration has caused.

    Well, we now have the DNC Commies who elected that idiot Hussien Obama.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    The Real Royal King said:
    Let’s never forget that W did not receive the most votes cast in 2000. Vice-President Gore did. And, don’t bring up the Electoral College. I know far better than you how the president is selected in Amerika. I also know that W was not the winner of the popular vote.

    You are correct. George W. Bush lost the popular vote. If you don’t like it, change the Constitution.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    armwood said:
    George Bush is what you get when you elect a “C” student, or in his case gentlemen’s C student president.

    If Obama ever releases his transcripts, I’ll have a clever comeback for this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Robert-Stone/504395195 William Robert Stone

    I miss W. That motherfucker makes me laugh. God bless you sir.

    P.S. Big Eddie sucks big donkey balls.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    King it doesn’t matter, since we elect our Presidents are elected via the Electoral College.

    As I stated before your inane post, I understand how we elect the President. However, most Americans who voted in 2008, not even a plurality of Americans who voted in 2008, did *****NOT***** vote for W, clearly establishing that he was not the popular choice. Only a minority of Amerikans voted for W. About that, there is no argument. To be sure, we might argue about whether the Supreme Court appointed W only because of the massive voter fraud and suppression by Chubby Jebbers, Cruella Harris and the Poppy Bush/Carlisle Group/Tri-Lateral Commission machine. But that would be another story.

  • The Real Royal King

    AnonymousFinch said:
    You are correct. George W. Bush lost the popular vote. If you don’t like it, change the Constitution.

    Who’s complaining, Dimwit? My only point was that most Americans saw through his lies. Only a minority of Amerikans who voted were fooled. That is demonstrably true.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    The Real Royal King said:
    Who’s complaining, Dimwit? My only point was that most Americans saw through his lies. Only a minority of Amerikans who voted were fooled. That is demonstrably true.

    Dimwit? Seriously?

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    GlennBeckReviews said:
    The brilliant Dave Noland is correct. It is clear that GW Bush was a terrorist and mass murder, and it is known among the superior intellect of highly educated liberals that GW Bush and Dick Cheney spent the early morning hours of 9/8 – 9/11 2001 with Glenn Beck (between 2am – 5am) planting the bombs in the World Trade Center Towers. At the same time, Laura Bush and Sarah Palin planted the bombs at the Pentagon. Then, using thier X-Box 360 devices, they detonated the bombs on 9/11. Beck, no good son of a bitch he is, was the ringleader. Only brilliant liberals like Dave Noland know this. Learn more here – http://www.ShareThisUrlAboutHowThatBastardGlennBeckAndGeorgeBushWorkedTogetherToBlowUpStuff.com/2010/10/I-am-not-biased-beck-really-is-a-dick.html

    Just when I thought you have reached your peak in moronic posts, you exceed your abilities as the days go on.
    At least you have given James Gregory Backus a goal to aspire to. It will be like watching CNN and MSNBC scrape their way from the bottom of the barrel.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    King it doesn’t matter, since we elect our Presidents are elected via the Electoral College.

    there you go not reading posts again, eh, dum-dum.

  • m

    It’s beneath a former President to be interviewed by a pundit.

  • The Real Royal King

    AnonymousFinch said:
    Dimwit? Seriously?

    It is an appropriate terms for someone who comments upon a post he obviously has not read.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    The Real Royal King said:
    It is an appropriate terms for someone who comments upon a post he obviously has not read.

    I read it. You were making a wholly irrelevant point. I was just reminding you why it’s irrelevant.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    The_Reasonable_Lib says:
    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    King it doesn’t matter, since we elect our Presidents are elected via the Electoral College.

    there you go not reading posts again, eh, dum-du

    Actually, I DID read his post, but him saying not to bring up the electoral college doesn’t matter since that is the system we use.

  • juan

    James Gregory Backus said:
    The Theft of Democracy. Worked for George. Works for the Teabagers.

    That theft is in Harrry Reid’s corner now!

  • The Real Royal King

    juan said:
    That theft is in Harrry Reid’s corner now!

    Who comfortably beat that xenophobic twit.

  • cjd ohio 1

    thats right armwood harry s truman was a dummy, oops he didnt even go to college, damn we really dodged a bullit there

  • Big Eddie

    William Robert Stone said:
    I miss W. That motherfucker makes me laugh. God bless you sir. P.S. Big Eddie sucks big donkey balls.

    You,ve got to check out this steaming pile of dung :

    http://www.facebook.com/billybobisdrunk

  • The Real Royal King

    AnonymousFinch said:
    I read it. You were making a wholly irrelevant point. I was just reminding you why it’s irrelevant.

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    The_Reasonable_Lib says:
    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    King it doesn’t matter, since we elect our Presidents are elected via the Electoral College.

    there you go not reading posts again, eh, dum-du

    Actually, I DID read his post, but him saying not to bring up the electoral college doesn’t matter since that is the system we use.

    All the Marys in Heaven, let it go. We all regret votes we made. I regretted voting for Dolph Briscoe for governor of Texas. You regret voting for W. Move on and stip your incessant bleating, kvetching, moaning and whining.

  • Frankly My Dear

    Scott Brown might have been a watershed moment for the country but Massachusetts is back to it’s blue roots and Brown’s days are numbered there. Also he’s not conservative enough for Tea Baggers.

    How many interviews has GWB given Sean Hannity over the years? Was he really afraid of doing another interview that he didn’t go to the big dog, O’Reilly yet? Every Hannity interview is a throw away…

  • Pat Quinn

    I see a self professed war criminal. Thank you George W. Bush for admitting to a war crime in print. Hopefully the Hague will take this up. I hope I live to see the day that you and your boy Cheney are being marched in front of the world court for war crimes.

  • juan

    GlennBeckReviews said:
    and it is known among the superior intellect of highly educated liberals that

    Is this now well known by them:

    White House: Obama Conducting Reign of Terror

    http://www.opinion-maker.org/2010/11/white-house-obama-conducting-reign-of-terror/

    also:

    . . . Some staffers have personally born the brunt of Obama’s temper and witnessed his extreme narcissistic behavior. WMR has also learned from White House sources that Obama is taking prescription anxiety medication.

    http://constitutionclub.org/2010/11/07/the-next-set-of-cracks-appear/

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Pat Quinn said:
    I see a self professed war criminal. Thank you George W. Bush for admitting to a war crime in print. Hopefully the Hague will take this up. I hope I live to see the day that you and your boy Cheney are being marched in front of the world court for war crimes.

    And which war crime was that? Please enlighten me.

  • juan

    Frankly My Dear said:
    Tea Baggers.

    Pedophile Frankly My Dear!

  • Pablo

    (Some have argued that they didn’t elect him at all, but that’s a different matter altogether.)

    Some argue all sorts of things. Some are stupid. Some are deluded. Some are decitful. Some just can’t accept facts, like the fact that Bush won Florida in 2000. And 2004.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Pablo said:
    Some argue all sorts of things. Some are stupid. Some are deluded. Some are decitful. Some just can’t accept facts, like the fact that Bush won Florida in 2000. And 2004.

    Ah, yes, the headline that Michael Moore deliberately altered and falsified so that it said the EXACT OPPOSITE in Fahrenheit 9/11.

  • juan

    The Real Royal King said:
    juan said:
    That theft is in Harrry Reid’s corner now!
    Who comfortably beat that xenophobic twit.

    His campaign had Harrah’s Casino, etc., intimidate union workers to vote for him!

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    Who’s complaining, Dimwit? My only point was that most Americans saw through his lies. Only a minority of Amerikans who voted were fooled. That is demonstrably true.

    Hillary Clinton feels your pain.

  • fanofamerica

    The Real Royal King said:
    As I stated before your inane post, I understand how we elect the President. .

    ————————————

    Here’s a better example of an inane post for you King:

    The Real Royal King says:
    November 8, 2010 at 4:15 pm The Real Royal King(Quote)
    Thumb up 2 Thumb down 8

    Isn’t it cute that W and O’Hannity wore matching outfits. I wonder if they washed and set each other’s hair before the cameras were turned on?

  • Pablo

    The Real Royal King said:
    Let’s never forget that W did not receive the most votes cast in 2000. Vice-President Gore did. And, don’t bring up the Electoral College. I know far better than you how the president is selected in Amerika. I also know that W was not the winner of the popular vote.

    Far better? How far? You’re bleating, kvetching, moaning and whining about the American Way because of your deep and profound knowledge of something every competent 6th grader knows.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    King says:

    You regret voting for W

    Kindly don’t speak for me. I do NOT regret voting for Bush. Did I agree with everything he did, NO, but I greatly admire the man. And btw, last week a poll came out that said a majority of American’s would take W back over Barack.

  • Pablo

    I regret voting for Gore. But not much.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    Even a decade later you just can’t resist bringing up the 2000 election. When are you liberal douchebags gonna stop whining about 2000? George W. Bush won. Then he won again. Al Gore is a fraud, a liar, and a dick head.

  • fanofamerica

    The Real Royal King said:
    And, don’t bring up the Electoral College. I know far better than you how the president is selected in Amerika. I also know that W was not the winner of the popular vote.

    If someone on here told you to not ‘bring up’ something that would point out the silliness of their post, I don’t think you’d quietly accept it. Why do you try to have it otherwise?

  • TfT

    So liberal Glynnis is gone and replaced with liberal Ray. Oh boy, aren’t we lucky to have another liberal columnist on board here? Really Ray, Bush won fair and square. Gore tried to cheat, got caught, and lost. Get over yourself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    Pat Quinn said:
    I see a self professed war criminal. Thank you George W. Bush for admitting to a war crime in print. Hopefully the Hague will take this up. I hope I live to see the day that you and your boy Cheney are being marched in front of the world court for war crimes.

    Back in 1999, the Clinton administration claimed that the Serbs were engaged in ethnic cleansing and announced that Milosevic had murdered more than 100,000 innocent people. In reality, less than 3,000 bodies have been recovered since 1999. Around 500 of those are believed to be KLA fighters, and many of the rest were more than likely citizens killed in the daily U.S. led bombing raids.

    President Clinton actually placed our military side-by-side with terrorists. The Kosovo Liberation Army was made up of mercenaries and foreign nationals mostly from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Afghanistan.

    A panel of 16 judges from 11 countries at a people’s tribunal meeting in New York June 10 before 500 people found U.S. and NATO political and military leaders guilty of war crimes against Yugoslavia in the March 24-June 10, 1999 assault on that country. Those found guilty included WJ Clinton.

    http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm

    Since you are such a big fan of the world court, what do you suggest we do with WJ Clinton? Life imprisonment?

  • bigbrainbrad

    I am sure this will be a hard hitting interview!

  • tatboy

    armwood said:
    George Bush is what you get when you elect a “C” student, or in his case gentlemen’s C student president.

    FYI… GWB’s grades were HIGHER than Kerry’s at Yale.

  • bigbrainbrad

    juan said:
    His campaign had Harrah’s Casino, etc., intimidate union workers to vote for him!

    simply not true. Your pulling this out of your ass!

    Casinos have been busing employee’s to the polls for years.

    Fact of the matter is that Hispanics voted overwhelmingly for Reid and it won him the election.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    Pat Quinn said:
    I see a self professed war criminal. Thank you George W. Bush for admitting to a war crime in print. Hopefully the Hague will take this up. I hope I live to see the day that you and your boy Cheney are being marched in front of the world court for war crimes.

    Link doesn’t work anymore. Here, try this one, from Justice Yugoslavia –

    http://www.justiceyugoslavia.org/warcrmnl.html

    Or this one, documenting Clinton’s war crimes –

    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/International_War_Crimes/ClintonWarCriminal_Herman.html

    So, again, should we send Bill Clinton off to prison at The Hague, perhaps in Milosevic’s old cell?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Brad says:

    simply not true. Your pulling this out of your ass!

    Google it, it’s you that is wrong.

  • glenn113

    James Gregory Backus said:
    The Theft of Democracy. Worked for George. Works for the Teabagers.

    Absolutely right… We basically or shortly will have a plutocracy. Teabaggers, look up the definition because that is what you voted for.

  • bigbrainbrad

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Brad says:

    simply not true. Your pulling this out of your ass!

    Google it, it’s you that is wrong.

    so any story that appears on the internet is a fact now? I guess Obama is spending $200 million a day in India.

    one story on foxnation reporting that the DOJ is investigating a claim by Sharon Angle doesn’t cut it. The commenter I responded to made it seem it was a matter of fact.

    I live in Nevada and NOT ONE source including the lvrj (which leans right) is reporting this but I guess they are all wrong.

    Reid won by 40,000 votes. Get over it!

  • bigbrainbrad

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Brad says:

    simply not true. Your pulling this out of your ass!

    Google it, it’s you that is wrong.

    and furthermore, how does someone intimidate someone to vote for anybody? Does Harry Reid or someone go into the voting booth with a loaded pistol and say pull the lever for this guy or else.

  • sticks

    glenn113… Plutocracy ?… Really ?… What blog did you find that one on ?… Bunchobullchit.com ?…

  • Pat Quinn

    AnonymousFinch said:
    And which war crime was that? Please enlighten me.

    The war crime against waterboarding as cruel and inhuman punishment under the Geneva Convention

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Bone-headed brad says:

    and furthermore, how does someone intimidate someone to vote for anybody? Does Harry Reid or someone go into the voting booth with a loaded pistol and say pull the lever for this guy or else.

    So I’m guessing your have no problem with them giving out gift cards and food for a Reid vote either? Do yourself a favor and educate yourself. Go to google and type “harrah’s pressures employees to vote for harry reid” and see what comes up. But don’t believe your lying eyes!

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Question to Bush: Would you give the order to waterboard again?

    Answer, HELL YES!

    And that’s why I voted for the man.

  • Noe Schitt

    Only Fox would lend a traitor airtime

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    I don’t see the Tea Party, I see people who hate the President b/c he is…

  • Kird

    Noe Schitt said:
    Only Fox would lend a traitor airtime

    This is funny because of the heavily hyped NBC interview with Bush.

  • Kird

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    I don’t see the Tea Party, I see people who hate the President b/c he is…

    . . . not conservative?

    Seriously, the liberals here hate Bush twice as much as the conservatives here hate Obama and that is freaking scary. I’m starting to think this is the place people go when they get too nutty for kos and red state.

  • TCinAZ

    Dave Noland said:
    Was he really president?

    Yes, he was. In fact, he actually Governed our country. He didn’t just campaign, then campaign some More, and some More, and some More, and then Bitch about how He “inherited” all of these Problems, then Add TO Them, even though we Don’t live under a Monarch and even though we’re not all that exceptional Either, Yet Obama DID Run For POTUS Anyway. Yes, Dubya Was President.

    Oh and Btw,I LMAO every time I Hear or Read one of the Left’s Tools using the argument that Bush’s using Waterboarding or our So-Called Cruel and Usual Punishment and War Crimes “Created more Terrorists”, because there was No Such Place AS Geneve Suisse (or their Chocolatiers, or their Coventions), and America and Israel weren’t Nation States Either. So Proggies Still Can’t Blame America Or Da’ Joos for Anything. As a pretty Large Percentage of Muslims have been generally pissed off at the World for Some Reason or Other since 632AD, and they’ve Also Demanded that the World gives them Full Credit for their having Invented, Saved or Created things like oh, say Astronomy and Calligraphy (even though they Know that they won the Bronze Medal in the Cultural and Religious Olympics) “or Else”, guess What? Guess what happens if We Don’t give Them Full Credit for it?

    Yup. I KILL YOU INFIDEL! After which Point, their Women gather round’ and commence w/the Tongue-Clucking to celebrate their “victory” in their Having whacked us.

    So they’ve Been At this game for a While now,”Girls”. Welcome to The Jungle. They got Fun and Games. But You Self-Professed Proggie Intulekshulls think you can Reason with Them. I mean, You actually Think that if only you could have about a 60-minute sitdown w/them at your local Starbucks, Damn It! Then about 1,500 YEARS Of Koranic Indoctrination could just be washed away by your Charm, Good Nature and the Promise of a Better Tomorrow..Tomorrow..Tomorrow.. I Love Ya’ Tomorrow, because that ain’t Nothing that a bit of Proggie-influenced Readin’, Writin’ and Rithmetic can’t Fix. Right?

    One BIG Problem though. “We Love DEATH More than You Love LIFE!” So Good Luck With That. Good Luck with talking a bunch of sexually repressed dudes out of the “72 Honies” waiting for em’ on the Other Side realm Without Waterboarding their asses First. Because it took My People from 1453 to 1821 to start cutting their F’king Throats to Prove to Them that they were Serious about Their Independence, and being free from Haji Terrorism, since thats the Only “language” that Some Muslims Understand. And it was the same Deal with Milosevic Too. Like a Bad Cell Connection. Can ya’ hear Me NOW!?

  • kohler

    The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

    The bill preserves the Electoral College, while assuring that every vote is equal and that every voter will matter in every state in every presidential election.

    Candidates would need to care about voters across the nation, not just undecided voters in a handful of swing states.

    The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes–that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

    The bill uses the power given to each state by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes for president. Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have come about by state legislative action.

    The bill has been endorsed or voted for by 1,922 state legislators (in 50 states) who have sponsored and/or cast recorded votes in favor of the bill.

    In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). The recent Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University poll shows 72% support for direct nationwide election of the President. Support for a national popular vote is strong in virtually every state, partisan, and demographic group surveyed in recent polls in closely divided battleground states: Colorado– 68%, Iowa –75%, Michigan– 73%, Missouri– 70%, New Hampshire– 69%, Nevada– 72%, New Mexico– 76%, North Carolina– 74%, Ohio– 70%, Pennsylvania — 78%, Virginia — 74%, and Wisconsin — 71%; in smaller states (3 to 5 electoral votes): Alaska — 70%, DC — 76%, Delaware –75%, Maine — 77%, Nebraska — 74%, New Hampshire –69%, Nevada — 72%, New Mexico — 76%, Rhode Island — 74%, and Vermont — 75%; in Southern and border states: Arkansas –80%, Kentucky — 80%, Mississippi –77%, Missouri — 70%, North Carolina — 74%, and Virginia — 74%; and in other states polled: California — 70%, Connecticut — 74% , Massachusetts — 73%, Minnesota — 75%, New York — 79%, Washington — 77%, and West Virginia- 81%.

    The National Popular Vote bill has passed 31 state legislative chambers, in 21 small, medium-small, medium, and large states, including one house in Arkansas (6), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), The District of Columbia (3), Maine (4), Michigan (17), Nevada (5), New Mexico (5), New York (31), North Carolina (15), and Oregon (7), and both houses in California (55), Colorado (9), Hawaii (4), Illinois (21), New Jersey (15), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (12), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), and Washington (11). The bill has been enacted by the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington. These seven states possess 76 electoral votes — 28% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.

    See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com

  • CAconservative

    Bush says, because of the Tea-Party, Democracy is working? That would sound good if it weren’t for the fact that the Tea-Party is against everything Mr.Bush stands for. Like big-government, and big-spending. This clown took us to war on a lie. He lied about Iraq having WMD’s, even when the UN-observers told him repeatedly that they didn’t exist. As a result we have nearly 80,000 dead American who lost their lives for his lie, and $Billions of dollars waisted!

  • cjd ohio 1

    80,000 dont make shit up, argue on the facts

  • croberts

    Listen!!! Atleast George W. Bush is a godly man who fears the Lord!! One of the reasons that our country has been so blessed by God is because we support Israel! Liberals want to say that he led us into a war with Iraq that we should not have gotten into. That is because certain people only care about themselves and nobody else! As long as everything is fine in our country, then we should not care if sadam is killing people and torturing people! What if we would have said the same things about Adolph Hitler!! The problem is that George W. Bush stands for Godly principles and that is why liberals do not like him!! We are further in debt now than when Obama became president but wait, that is still Bushs’ fault. No matter what, as long as Obama is president he will blame all of his troubles on Bush because he can’t own up to his own problems and be a man.

  • Nachi

    2 absolute human freaks enjoying each others’ company.

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