Monday, April 24, 2006
How Low Can He Go?
Poor, poor Georgieboy. His approval rating is beginning to resemble the weather forcast for Illinois in December. He's currently at 32% and falling.
How long before he breaks through into the twenties? Anybody care to make a prediction? I say July. What say you?
- President Bush's approval ratings have sunk to a personal low, with only a third of Americans saying they approve of the way he is handling his job, a national poll released Monday said.
In the telephone poll of 1,012 adult Americans carried out Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corporation for CNN, 32 percent of respondents said they approve of Bush's performance, 60 percent said they disapprove and 8 percent said they do not know.
That's a significant drop from the way Americans perceived the president a year ago. In a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll carried out April 29-May 1, 2005, Americans were split on their assessments of Bush's performance, with 48 percent saying they approved and 49 percent saying they disapproved.
CNN's poll has a sampling error of plus-or-minus 3 percentage points for most questions.
It was one of four conducted within the past 10 days that have yielded similar results: a Pew Center poll carried out April 7-16 gave Bush a 35 percent approval rating; a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll carried out last Tuesday and Wednesday gave him a 33 percent approval rating; and an American Research Group poll carried out Tuesday through Friday gave him a 34 percent approval rating.
How long before he breaks through into the twenties? Anybody care to make a prediction? I say July. What say you?
