Bush Rates Poorly In Survey While Putin Gains Status

PARIS: President George W. Bush is widely unpopular, President Vladimir Putin is gaining admirers, and Iran should be penalized if it does not cease its uranium enrichment programs, according to an international survey conducted by Harris Interactive in the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Spain and Italy.

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According to the 2007 survey, whose results are being released on Friday, Bush's best score internationally was in the United States but still only 36 percent. His worst rating was in France - with 89 percent giving a negative response. Eighty percent disapprove of him in Spain and 71 percent in Britain.

"President Bush is very unpopular because of his Iraq policy, failures during Hurricane Katrina" and other related factors, said Paul Herrnson, director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship and a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland.

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"His polling numbers are at historic lows, but they won't dip much further because of the numbers of American voters who are Republicans or independent with Republican tendencies."

The negative ratings, Herrnson added, are unlikely to have any influence on the White House. "This administration has proven to be tone deaf," he said. "It listens to interest groups, at times, but not the American public."

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Even though Bush has hurt Americans the most.