Bush hits 71% Disapproval Rating
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president: "No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
"Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively) but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland added. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 66 percent disapproval in January 1952."
CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, "He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974." President Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974 stood at 67 percent.
He always DID want to leave a legacy. Congrats!
Labels: disappoval ratings, george bush
posted by John Good @ 5:51 PM
2 Comments:
It the anniversary of "Mission Accomplished", so it's fitting I think.
It a good thing Bush doesn't read newspapers (or can't read them), a better person might get demoralized knowing 70% of the people disapprove of them.
Hey, he was bound to accomplish something in the eight years as president. I bet he thinks it's funny. He finally beat everybody at something!!!
"I uh, just want to thank the people of uh, well the folks that voted for me to win this distinguishting honor of beatin' out the other presidents at sumthin'. He he.".
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