question, if Americans hate and critize Bush so much, why in the fisrt place did Americans vote for him?

Question

let alone REELECT HIM! u keep saying how stupid or useless he is so what encourage Americans to vote for him in the fisrt place?! PLEASE someone enlighten me!

Answer 1

For one thing, they may not have. He probably stole both elections. This is always a possibility when elections are very close.

For another, those who did vote for him voted over irrelevant issues, and they voted against their own economic interest. They voted because of: gay marriage, school prayer, abortion, flag burning, 9/11 and the fond belief that Bush meant it when he said "Mission accomplished!"

But Bush and his cronies have stolen the contents of the Treasury, and mortgaged the USA to China. Future generations will pay for that, and for the Iraqi escapade.

When it comes down to it, Americans -- or enough of them to swing elections -- are not very savvy, and the fall for sound bites that plead to fears, prejudices and base instinct.

Answer 2

Alas, because we have a two-party system and Americans are fairly evenly distributed across those two parties - any candidate once their in the general election is going to get most of the votes from those who belong to their party. So it would be extremely unusual for a candidate to get less than say 45% of the popular vote. The electoral college system usually yields the same winner, but creates the impression that the margin of victory was wider.

The bottom line is that the first time "W" was elected people were tired of the scandals of the Clinton administration and Gore was about as inspiring as a tube of glue. Because it was before 9/11 nobody really figured W could do so much damage. And of course the election was so close that it literally was a toss-up and W ended up with it thanks to the Supreme Court.

The second time around W was able to win because he played the "Chicken-Little" card and was able to convince many that the sky was falling and that he would keep them safer than John Kerry. Unfortunately, fear is an extremely potent motivator and the Bush administration scared people silly. The sad truth is that many Americans are unthinking sheep who do not think things through for themselves but rather believe what their religious leaders and government tell them to believe. I actually had a neighbor tell me recently, "Well, he's our President so we just have to have faith that he is acting in our best interests."

So while on a personal level, most Americans are nice people who wish others well, unfortunately on a deeper level we are very fearful and are thus easily manipulated.

Answer 3

Lets not forget something, over 2/3rds of the American public did not even vote in this past election because neither candidate was a good choice. The ones that did vote for him came primarily from red states that were incited by their hate of homosexuality. The 2000 election was stolen outright...I have seen the purged voter roles which clearly show the manipulation of democratic voters that were denied their legal right to vote because a well prepared database (which Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush paid for) manipulated information of registered democrats. Before I get any comments let me tell you I am a republican and have researched into this. I want to see fair voting practices for all Americans otherwise what is the sense of casting a vote.

Answer 4

Ah Nelson, you have asked about one of my favoirte subjects!
Kindly click the links below. The first shows a map of the election results in California in 2004. You will see that Modoc County, in the upper right hand corner of the state is the reddest county in California at 73% in favor of Bush. The link below that shows the economic conditions in Modoc County and the number of people living below the poverty line.
The average american is not really voting for their interests. This may be due to ignorance. They probably live in a town that has one newspaper and the town leaders are all republicans.
Modoc is a microcosm in that respect of what is going on in the rest of the country. People are too busy voting their faith, and their party line to pick up another newspaper and really learn the facts. Then when they don't like their republican president they continue to blame the liberal democrats. At the end you can view their local newspaper. What a hick town. I suppose that is Bush's true base.
Are you enlightened yet?

Answer 5

A lot of people never did vote for him. It's all those republicans that reelected him. In 2000 Gore got more votes than him (though not as many electoral votes) and in 2004 Bush only got 54-56% of the vote. So many Americans didn't vote gor him.

Answer 6

I am from Kentucky a most certain red state. I didn't vote for Bush the first time. He won that election thanks to his brother Jeb and the uncounted votes. In 2004, I just thought it was the lesser of two evils. Had there been another qualified person that had ran for office I would have voted for them. I do hope though that America is waking up to the fact that this criminal is evil, a war loving, Constitution hating, illegal loving bastard. What about all the signing statements he has written? More than all presidents in history. Then we have PNAC & NWO. Conspiracy or not they are something to think about.

Answer 7

Because, he wasn't the only "Candidate" and we voted, for "The Other Guy" you know what I mean? And we tried to encourage, Bush-voter's, to also vote for the other guy!!! Both terms, we made every effort, to get people to vote for the other runner-up!!! But, it appears we will always have a problem, with this whole presidential voting thing, for years, to come, for the "simple" fact of the matter, all Black citizens, will always vote, for the "Republican-Party" even, if the "Democrat" running was black, and the "Republican" was "White", this all goes back too, President, Lincoln, being, a Republican, and him freeing the slaves, and so on.......No matter what their about, they will always have the "Black's" votes.......How sad is that!!!!! Our countries, in "Big-Trouble" because, of the "Ignorance" alone!!!

Answer 8

America was split when it came to the elections. I think we are still split. Since the war isn't going so easy people obviously blame Bush. You can please some of the people some of the time but not everyone all of the time. The war on terrorism and moral values were what was important during the election. I still support our president. He has a tough job. Our president deserves repect no matter if he's republican, democrat, independent, whatever. I can disagree with out bashing unlike other people.

Answer 9

First of all, I didn't vote for him, either election.
I think he won because people were still afraid and wrongly believed he was the guy to protect him.... Apparently it took them to see that he'd appointed a former horse commission/good buddy to head the national distaster relief organzation to understand that he apparently wasn't THAT concerned about national safety.
I think the other part that gave him a second term was that the Democrats didn't run a very good candidate or campaign. They just seemed spineless, as opposed to the Republicans seeming stupid.

Answer 10

First of all the people dont really decide who the president is. The electoral college decides and our votes are supposed to help them decide. They dont have to accept our opinion, and have not always done it. But........
Although I am NOT a Bush fan, and didnt vote for him. It doesnt matter who our president is or will be, once they are in office people wont like them anymore. Look at Clinton, people loved him at first, but not by the time he was out of office. (personally I think all that drama with Monica was him and Hillary's buisness, do you really think he is the first president to have someone on the side?) Being under the public eye like that, they will find something to hate you for.

Answer 11

Well, I don't believe everyone hates him as much as some people want us to believe. In actuallity I usually vote democrat, and I think Clinton did a good job, but I voted for Bush in his first and second terms. The reason was because America was loosing touch with who we are. The fact he won't let terrorism thrive is enough to make me believe I made the right choice voting for him. We all want to believe in a Utopian existance where there is peace and safety, however, it is ludicrious to think if we stand back while radical ideology is quashing people's freedoms, that things will just work themselves out. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" (MLK).