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 Monkey
on His Back: George
Bush Approval Rating
Lowest in Modern
History
A
major obstacle
Republican
Presidential
candidate John
McCain must try to
overcome
George Bush is the
most unpopular US
President in modern
history according to
a poll released by
CNN.
71
percent of the
American public
disapprove of how
Bush is handling his
job as president and
these numbers are
mirrored by an AOL
poll asking the
same, whereby 74
percent said he has
done a "poor" job as
President. 74
percent also said he
was deserving of the
achievement.
11 percent said
survey by America
Online says he
has done a good job,
9 percent a fair job
and 6 percent said
that President
George W. Bush has
been an excellent
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
Keating Holland,
CNN's polling
director.
Still, today's
generation tends to
forget the Richard
Nixon era and Harry
Truman did not fare
very well either.
"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
said. "The previous
all-time record in
CNN or Gallup
polling was set by
Truman, 67 percent
disapproval in
January 1952."
By
default, this is an
obstacle that
Senator John McCain
will have to
overcome since many
voters tend to
perceive another
Republican in office
as perhaps an
"extension of the
Bush
administration".
A
NBC/WSJ poll reveals
that 43% say McCain
being too closely
aligned to Bush and
his policies is a
major concern.
That’s compared with
36% who say that
about Clinton’s
apparent flip-flops;
34% who say that
about Obama’s
bitter-guns-religion
remark; 32% who say
that about Wright
and Bill Ayers; 31%
who say that about
Clinton’s honesty
and trustworthiness;
27% who say that
about Bill Clinton
having too much
influence on policy
decisions; 17% who
say that about Obama
not being patriotic
enough; and 16% who
believe McCain might
be too old.
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Carrie Stroup,
Gambling911.com
Originally published
May 2, 2008 2:22 pm
EST
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