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Friday 3rd July 2009 | 06:12

Bush, Cheney, Palin move up; Powell enters with second highest rating

The new numbers are in for the PoliticsHome Reputation Index

The first continuous poll assessing the reputations of all of America's top politicians and most important political figures - and this month we saw only a few positive moves. 

Out of the 61 political figures on the list, only 15 moved in a positive direction.  Though still generally unpopular, former President George W Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney both gained 4 points to receive a total of negative-18 and 21 respectively.  Sarah Palin has reached her highest rating yet, also making a 4 point jump to give her a total of negative-9.

President Obama's rating took a hit this month with a 6 point loss, dropping him to positive-5 in total. 

Colin Powell made his debut in the PoliticsHome Reputation Index with a high positive-17 rating, second only to Defense Secretary Robert Gates' positive-22.

California's Governor Aronold Schwarzenegger suffers the biggest drop this month, losing 9 points and bringing him down to a negative-15. 

For full results, see the table below:

	NET	Change (1M)		GOP	DEM	IND
Axelrod	+3	-1		-46	56	0
Biden	0	-1		-79	78	1
Bloomberg	-3	-4		-20	14	-4
Boehner	-16	0		31	-58	-22
Boxer	-13	-1		-75	50	-14
Bush - J	-6	-1		61	-57	-22
Bush-GW	-18	+4		65	-82	-38
Cantor	-17	0		4	-40	-14
Cheney	-21	+4		61	-84	-39
Clinton-H	+1	-2		-75	79	-1
Clinton-B	-3	0		-70	67	-5
Collins	-4	-1		-26	18	-2
Crist	+4	-2		15	0	-1
DeMint	-6	0		15	-27	-4
Dodd	-23	-1		-69	25	-25
Emanuel	-8	0		-73	59	-11
Feingold	-1	-3		-40	43	-4
Feinstein	-19	-3		-73	42	-25
Frank	-15	-1		-84	58	-18
Gates	+22	-3		9	39	20
Geithner	-20	0		-72	35	-23
Gibbs	-3	-3		-42	38	-5
Gingrich	-15	-5		62	-81	-24
Gore	-1	+1		-86	84	1
Graham	-18	+2		13	-40	-28
Holder	-8	-2		-49	33	-9
Hoyer	-12	-1		-31	9	-14
Huckabee	-2	-3		62	-55	-14
Jindal	-4	0		63	-64	-12
Jones	+2	0		-4	9	-1
Kaine	+7	-1		-13	27	7
Kennedy	-4	-5		-84	77	-4
Kerry	-17	+1		-82	50	-18
Kucinich	-8	-3		-51	34	-6
Lieberman	-16	+2		30	-58	-19
Lugar	0	0		-5	10	-4
McCain	-17	0		25	-51	-26
McCaskill	+5	+2		-24	37	2
McConnell	-18	-3		25	-54	-25
Obama	+5	-6		-85	87	14
Palin	-9	+4		75	-81	-21
Paterson	-18	-4		-31	-6	-18
Patrick	0	-2		-16	18	-4
Paul	+5	-2		22	-19	10
Pawlenty	-1	+2		30	-31	-3
Pelosi	-39	+2		-92	22	-45
Pence	-3	-2		13	-19	-2
Perry	-8	+2		26	-42	-10
Powell	+17	N/A		-44	70	24
Reid	-35	0		-80	9	-35
Rendell	-3	-4		-31	22	0
Romney	-3	-1		63	-63	-10
Sanford	-5	+2		17	-26	-5
Schumer	-17	-3		-66	35	-18
Schwarzenger	-15	-9		-33	2	-13
Sebelius	+1	-1		-55	53	4
Shelby	-10	+2		13	-34	-10
Specter	-39	-2		-72	-8	-37
Steele	-17	-1		31	-56	-25
Warner	+5	+1		-13	26	2
Webb	+13	+1		-19	43	14

Every month OpinionAmerica assesses the key players in American politics by sharing whether they have a positive, negative or no impression of them. The net results among Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are then averaged to provide the overall net rating for each of the main political figures.

PoliticsHome interviewed 1,345 Americans from the OpinionAmerica panel by e-mail from June 17-18 .

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