Reflecting on Smoogatz' post,
"Bush now in statistical tie w/ Nixon for lowest approval ever!", the following occurred to me:
The U.S. population in 1972, about a year and half before Nixon's resignation from office, was 209,896,021.
http://www.infoplease.com/year/1972.html#usThe U.S. population last year HIT 300 million.
To simplify things, we'll round off and simply say, that in 1972, the U.S. population was 2/3 what it is today.
With Bush's disapproval rating at approximately 25% of the current U.S. population, that means that around 225 million Americans disapprove of/hate/dislike George W. Bush.
At it's worst, Nixon's approval rating was 23% - at the time of his resignation, but we'll round that off to approximately 25% too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_ratingThat means only around 158 million Americans disapproved of/hated/disliked Richard Nixon at the time of his resignation.
More Americans today hate/disapprove of George W. Bush than made up the entire population of the country at the time of Nixon's resignation.Feel a bit better?
(Feel free to check my math, but I did kind of round of and get squishy on the years.)