Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Paul Steinhauser
CNN Deputy Political Director

WASHINGTON DC (CNN) -- A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is 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 Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.

"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 said. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952."
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The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower. Thirty percent of those questioned favored the war, while 68 percent opposed it.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html

ON EDIT: Bold emphasis added. This is like watching one of those old Sat. morning "adventure" cartoons -- the heroes are in some awful predicament (about to slide over a cliff, hanging by a rope which is obviously unraveling, on a sinking ship, etc.) but every time the POV shifts and comes back we see them start slipping downwards from the same starting point, over and over again, never *quite* reaching the disaster point before the POV changes again and the whole thing starts over ... Bu**sh** has dropped below 28% according to one poll or another HOW MANY TIMES now?

At least those incomprehendable "don't know" responders have faded to 1% or so, so we can conserve our supply of "WTF?!?" a little.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Hooorayyy for Richard Nixon. n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Modern history?

Try since the beginning of time, IMHO.

[Doctor_J]

5. He's now captured the US prize. Time to take on the world!

Next in line for him to catch - Mussolini!

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. And Bush has another 8 months to go

[Clear Blue Sky]

4. Plenty of time for that 71% number to keep rising.