Posted on 05/01/2008 2:00:10 PM PDT by The_Republican
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.
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 the conflict.
"Americans are growing more pessimistic about the war," Holland said. "In January, nearly half believed that things were going well for the U.S. in Iraq; now that figure has dropped to 39 percent."
The numbers on the Iraq war come on the five-year anniversary of President Bush's "mission accomplished" moment onboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, when Bush proclaimed that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
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If gas was 1.50/gal, he would be in the the seventies favorable.
Probably shouldn’t run for another term, then.
it could have been different.
regular reports to the people on the war on terror by the president
would have stood him in good measure
against the liberal media’s constant denigration of him and the war.
I call BS on this poll. There’s no way in H@#L he’s below Jimmah.
What was congresses approval rating again? Did they ever get into single digits like they were trying to do?
Popularity is overrated. The popular kids in high school end up washing cars and shoveling fries later in life. The unpopular kids end up loaded and with smoking hot spouses.
I remain confident that, like Reagan, history will judge Bush favorably.
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Well President Bush isn’t as bad as Grover Cleveland. The guy was never elected, he just sort of showed up and nobody bothered to kick him out.
Any poll that has “CNN” in the front has got to be accurate! Sarcasm off! (just in case)!
70% disapproval in a CNN poll is a badge of honor.
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll;"
Soooooooooooooooooo... The birth of CNN polling is when "modern history" began!
While most of us admire him on the WOT, I would give him an unfavorable rating if I were polled. He has destroyed modern conservatism. The entire movement that began after Goldwater's defeat, and whose highpoint was the 1994 landslide, is now totally gone.
Do you remember the days when we actually talked about repealing the Department of Education? We were close. We had a movement based on federalism, individual liberty, and less government. W has thrown it all away. The very departments and entitlements we were so close to getting rid of he now expands faster than the dems ever did.
I call BS on that poll. In fact, I call BS on all CNN/Gallup polls.
You mean they got James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson’s poll numbers?
You Sir are are RJINO. Ron Jeremey in name only! ;o)
Ditto.
I agree 100%.
Popularity = Liberal ‘FEELINGS’ = What have you done for ME lately
You gotta’ work pretty hard to alienate just about everybody. Of course, in his own mind he’s probably a man of principles, whatever they are, who “stayed the course,” whatever that was.
There’s an awful lot of fair criticisms that can be made of President Bush, but there’s even more mindless hatred. He is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the 21st century.
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