Disapproval of Bush breaks record
By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WA****NGTON - President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to
avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year
history of the Gallup Poll.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans
approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating
matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new
high
for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
The previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952,
when
the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.
Bush's rating has worsened amid "collapsing optimism about the economy,"
says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison who studies presidential approval. Record gas prices and
a
wave of home foreclosures have fueled voter angst.
Bush also holds the record for the other extreme: the highest approval
rating of any president in Gallup's history. In September 2001, in the
days
after the 9/11 attacks, Bush's approval spiked to 90%. In another record,
the percentage of Americans who say the invasion of Iraq was a mistake
reached a new high, 63%, in the latest poll.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/wa****ngton/2008-04-21-bushrating_N.htm?csp=34
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