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    Bush's Approval Rating Drops to New Low

    Bush's Approval Rating Drops to New Low

    by Jeffrey M. Jones, The Gallup Poll

    posted: 7 HOURS 31 MINUTES AGO
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    National News, Political News

    PRINCETON, N.J. (Sept. 30) - According to a Sept. 26-27 USA Today / Gallup poll, just 27% of Americans approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as president, the lowest rating of his presidency.

    Presidential Lows and Highs

    How has your opinion of Bush changed since he began his presidency?
    It's worsened 73% 134,347
    It hasn't changed 22% 38,477
    It's improved 5% 9,996

    Note on Poll Results
    Total Votes: 182,820

    Do you approve or disapprove of the job President Bush is doing in office?
    Disapprove 82%
    Approve 18%

    Total Votes: 189,327
    Note on Poll Results

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    The new personal low rating for Bush comes amid the financial crisis that has rocked Wall Street in recent weeks. Bush's approval rating has declined from 31% in the previous Gallup Poll, conducted before the crisis intensified with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the near-collapse of Merrill Lynch, and the federal government bailout of AIG. It is down 6 points from 33% just after the Republican National Convention early this month. Bush's previous low had been 28%, measured at several points earlier this year. (The most recent poll was conducted before the House of Representatives voted down a bill to address the problems on Monday.)
    The timing of the decline strongly suggests that it is because of the financial crisis, and the government's largely unpopular response to it. In a separate question in the Sept. 26-27 poll, only 28% of Americans approved and 68% disapproved of Bush's response to the financial crisis -- the worst of six government leaders tested in the poll (although no leader received a majority positive response). While most Americans agreed that some type of government action is necessary to address the crisis, last week only a small minority seemed to favor passing a bill similar to the Bush administration's original proposal.

    Republicans are mostly responsible for the further erosion in Bush's job rating. Sixty-four percent of Republicans approve of Bush, down from 71% in the prior poll. Independents' and Democrats' ratings are essentially the same as two weeks ago.

    There has been an even sharper drop in Bush's ratings among self-identified conservatives, from 59% to 47%, likely reflecting opposition to the expansion of government involvement in the economy that the Bush administration proposed.

    Bush's Long Losing Streak Continues

    Low approval ratings have become routine for Bush. He has not had an approval rating above 40% for over two years, and only a handful of ratings at or above 50% his entire second term in office. The low ratings throughout much of his second term have arguably been because of the unpopular war in Iraq. But as conditions for the United States in Iraq have improved in the past year, the economy has gotten much worse and has served as an anchor on Bush's ratings.

    Bush has registered 28% approval ratings several times this year, in the spring and summer months as gas prices rose. His high rating for the year is only 34%.

    The all-time low rating for any president is 22%, for Harry Truman in February 1952. Bush now joins Truman and Richard Nixon as the only presidents who have had approval ratings of 27% or lower in Gallup Polls.
    Bush, like Truman, has the distinction of having some of the highest individual approval ratings in Gallup polling history and some of the lowest. That includes a record-high 90% approval rating for Bush just after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Truman recorded an 87% approval in 1945 just after V-E Day.

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    Is it to single digit, yet?
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    Someone remind me about Gallup Polls in the future.

    There is no way that jackass in the White House has an approval rating of 27%.

    His approval ratings are in the teens if he is lucky, but now we have identified Gallup as part of the political machinery.

    No wonder we tend to understand Zogby and Rasmussen polling better than Gallup. They are more accurate than Gallup.

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    If the truth be known it is probably at zero!

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