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              Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
“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.” The record low support for the war in a CNN poll could be one reason behind the president’s unpopularity, but it probably is not the only one. “Support for the war, the assessment of the economy and approval of Mr. Bush are all about the same — bad,” Schneider said. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted by telephone from Monday through Wednesday, with 1,008 adult Americans questioned. The poll’s sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. Have Your Say: Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. One Response to “Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history”
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If this man whom we are forced to announce as President, has a lower approval rating than anyother President in history. Even lower than Nixon who was impeached and forced to stepped down. How does this not happen to Bush? Have we taken news and this form of information simply as a joke to laugh about around the water cooler? How is this man still in office? Questions we just shrug off and say oh well. This is a direct slap on the forehead and as we look in the mirror and read the backward print, we the people have no say. We the people are so out of touch and have no influence. Let your voice be heard! We need to stop being the sheep we have been made into.