Newsweek Poll: How Low Can He Go? - * at new low of 26%, a record 65 % disapprove

[Kadie]

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.

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek
Updated: 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

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.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. 26% of americans should be incredibly ashamed of themselves

[w8liftinglady]

2. and when you watch the 26%-they appear as if transfixed by the pied piper

totally mindless sheep.Unfortunately,75% of the 26% live in Ellis County,Texas.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. It's A Predictable Number Though, Boss

1 in 6 people are incapable of admitting a mistake. Even if they know in their heart they were wrong, they won't admit, even to themselves. So, there's over 62% of that 26%. The rest of either oblivious or don't really care beyond their own property line.

I honestly can't imagine the number ever falling below 20%.
GAC

[uppityperson]

3. Woohoo! He's #1!!!!!!11

[Warpy]

4. Was this BEFORE the stem cell veto?

If it was, just wait until the next poll! Look out below!

It seems even the 30% backwash is starting to awaken from their Reagan-induced stupor.

[fishnfla]

5. I think this is one of the reasons that the campaign season started early

Jan9th, 2009

[bunkerbuster1]

6. As I remind people all the time--Nixon spent nearly a YEAR in the low 20s.

This is pretty bad for Bush, though. And it gives us some Freeper-fightin' fuel to those who have been comparing Bush's lows to those of Carter.

This is worse than Carter's bottom-out, and approaching Nixon in '74. Way to go, Mister President!

[Firespirit]

7. Don't read too much into this

The reason why so many Republicans disapprove of him is because they think he's "not a real conservative." They haven't seen the light. Not even close to it. They haven't connected that he is the end result of conservative ideology.

This is why, despite these ratings, the 2008 election is going to be a nailbiter.

[BurtWorm]

8. Wheeeeee!

[janx]

9. He'll go lower.

He's much worse than Nixon ever was.

[NeedleCast]

10. Heading for the Mendoza line

Funny. Tragically funny.

[Jim Warren]

11. It's a lie

They switched the real unemployment number with bush's approval. He's really at 4.5%

[Eurobabe]

13. I like seeing that in print, in 19 mos. * will leave the WH for the last time

The End is Near. :woohoo:

[Forkboy]

14. So what? He's safe for the rest of his term even it drops to 0%.

[Silent3]

15. The sad thing is...

...I'd have to guess that the main reason the hardcore right-wing fundie 30%, who has stuck with this disastrous failure of a President through thick and thin up until now, has started to erode is because Bush has disappointed them by not hating Mexicans quite enough.

[ComerPerro]

16. those stupid motherfuckers still voted for the fuckhead twice

[IDemo]

17. Where are the missing 2% of the Twenty-eight Percenters?

Snake handling finally catch up to ya'?

[Hubert Flottz]

18. Evaporation of the backwash...

Bout time for another Terra Lert! Don't get to far away from your duct tape.