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If American voters could get a mulligan on the November 2004 vote
How Low Can He Go?
President Bush registers the lowest approval rating of his presidency—making him the least popular president since Nixon—in the new NEWSWEEK Poll.
Despised low life
By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek
Updated: 10:49 a.m. CT June 21, 2007
June 21, 2007 - In 19 months, George W. Bush will leave the White House for the last time. The latest NEWSWEEK Poll suggests that he faces a steep climb if he hopes to coax the country back to his side before he goes. In the new poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday nights, President Bush’s approval rating has reached a record low. Only 26 percent of Americans, just over one in four, approve of the job the 43rd president is doing; while, a record 65 percent disapprove, including nearly a third of Republicans.
The new numbers—a 2 point drop from the last NEWSWEEK Poll at the beginning of May—are statistically unchanged, given the poll’s 4 point margin of error. But the 26 percent rating puts Bush lower than Jimmy Carter, who sunk to his nadir of 28 percent in a Gallup poll in June 1979. In fact, the only president in the last 35 years to score lower than Bush is Richard Nixon. Nixon’s approval rating tumbled to 23 percent in January 1974, seven months before his resignation over the botched Watergate break-in.
The war in Iraq continues to drag Bush down. A record 73 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Bush has done handling Iraq. Despite “the surge” in U.S. forces into Baghdad and Iraq’s western Anbar province, a record-low 23 percent of Americans approve of the president’s actions in Iraq, down 5 points since the end of March.
But the White House cannot pin his rating on the war alone. Bush scores record or near record lows on every major issue: from the economy (34 percent approve, 60 percent disapprove) to health care (28 percent approve, 61 percent disapprove) to immigration (23 percent approve, 63 percent disapprove). And—in the worst news, perhaps, for the crowded field of Republicans hoping to succeed Bush in 2008—50 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of terrorism and homeland security. Only 43 percent approve, on an issue that has been the GOP’s trump card in national elections since 9/11.
If there is any good news for Bush and the Republicans in the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, it’s that the Democratic-led Congress fares even worse than the president. Only 25 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
In the scariest news for the Democratic candidates seeking their party’s nomination in 2008, even rank-and-file Democrats are unhappy with Congress, which is narrowly controlled by their party. Only 27 percent of Democrats approve of the job Congress is doing, a statistically insignificant difference from the 25 percent of Republicans and 25 percent of independents who approve of Congress.
Overall, 63 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing, including 60 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of Independents. Apparently, voters aren’t happy with anyone in Washington these days.
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If only the media didn't contribute on a 9-1 ratio to Democrats, Bush's approval ratings would be better. Damned liberal media just won't portray any of the good things that this President does and there's simply no other media answer to get that story out. It's no wonder that his approval ratings are so low -- who could expect to survive that sort of onslaught?
Really, at this point isn't any news about Bush's poll numbers dipping below 30% pretty much all about how many die-hard Republicans he's losing? He lost independents or otherwise non-partisan voters years ago.
That is spot on actually. Bush's waning popularity (or lack thereof) is because of lost Republican support. There are those that are unhappy with his immigration plan and then there are the rats that are deserting a sinking ship. The rats are now saying he was never a "true" conservative because the stench of his failure reflects on the bankruptcy of conservative idealogy. To salvage the fight for another day, they now toss their hero under the bus.
26% is an outrageous lie. I understand it's 29%.
Wouldn't he be for more restrictive immigration legislation if he cared about how he was polling?
"Wouldn't he be for more restrictive immigration legislation"
... if he DIDN'T care about the Repug contributors who benefit from cheap labor by illegals.
26% is still twice the approval rate of Congress. That tells you what a ty job libs think their new congress is doing.
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