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Who you see when you get there. Who do you look up? How do you find them? There’s a lot of people there. Maybe you look around, find some didn’t make it, too.
— Former President George H.W. Bush, in an interview with ABC News, on Heaven.
47%
President Obama’s job approval rating average in May, unchanged from April, and exactly the same as George W. Bush’s and Gerald Ford’s ratings in May of their re-election years. Bush ended up winning by three percentage points in 2004, while Ford lost by two points in 1976. Obama’s average is well below the May re-election-year averages of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, both of whom won, but above the May averages of George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, who lost, according to Gallup.
It’s really quite Nixonian. I think you’d have to go back to Richard Nixon to find the last time you had group of people both through the campaign and through the power of the fed government really trying to harass and silence critics, and I think they need to be called on it.
— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in a Fox News interview, accusing the Obama administration of using the IRS, the SEC and other agencies to go after campaign contributors to Mitt Romney.
Yeah, it is pretty much a flat no.
— Rick Santorum, in a CNN interview, on serving in a Romney administration.
