Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/01/poll-bush-most-unpopular-in-modern-history/

Posted: 02:30 PM ET


New poll numbers show bad news for president Bush.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his 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 CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

"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 added. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 66 percent disapproval in January 1952."

CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, "He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974." President Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974 stood at 67 percent.

We're Number One! We're Number One! We're Number One!

:sarcasm:

What are those 28 percenters smoking? I would have thought the Chimp would have been in single digits by now. What will it take? Anything? Bush killing a baby at a press conference, eating it, and then wearing its skin?

Just ask 8 out of 10 people and I'm sure you'll get LOTS of good reasons.

And a 27% just came in. The current RCP average is 30.3%

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_bush_job_approval-904.html#polls

Nixon did some good things, aside from that whole Watergate thing, and Vietnam and Pinochet.

Making people hate him.