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FYI - Bush Approval Rating
Bush approval ratings reach 70-year low
Washington, June 18: Approval rating of US President George W Bush, now on the last leg of his second term, has reached an all-time low in modern opinion polls since 1938, with a record number of Americans saying the country is on the "wrong track".
Given the growing economic discontent, rising cost of fuel, atop the unpopular Iraq war, Bush's job approval rating has sunk to a new low in latest ABC/Post polls, 29 per cent.
Sixty-eight per cent of Americans now disapprove, the highest in any presidential approval poll dating to Gallup's first in 1938 (surpassing Harry Truman's 67 per cent disapproval and Richard Nixon's 66 per cent), the poll said.
Fifty-four per cent "strongly" disapprove, a new high, dwarfing the 10 per cent who strongly approve. Among other groups, Bush is at record lows in his own party and among conservatives.
Separately, and for the same reasons, a remarkable 84 per cent of Americans who took part in the polls say the country is seriously off on the wrong track, a record high in polls since the early 1970s.
The previous high was 83 per cent in June 1992, the summer before Bush's father lost re-election amid broad economic discontent. It was 82 per cent in May.
Bush is expected to end his two terms as US President on January 20, 2009 when the winner of the November 4 general election- either Republican nominee John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama - will succeed him.
The poll found that 77 per cent of Americans say their president should meet with leaders of hostile foreign nations, rejecting the argument that this could reward their behaviour and make the US look weak. And 63 per cent continue to say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, with just 38 per cent saying the US is winning there.
in other words...Dubya's approval rating is now lower than Nixon's in the middle of Watergate.
aren't you glad you didn't vote for him? 
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6/18/2008, 11:40 am
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Re: FYI - Bush Approval Rating
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aren't you glad you didn't vote for him?
Well, I did vote for him and - considering the alternatives - I am quite happy.
Given the same circumstances - even with 20/20 hindsight - I'd do it again.
Twice.
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6/18/2008, 11:43 am
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wow...you really think that Kerry and Gore would have performed worse than the guy who's performed the worst in the 70 year history of tracking approval ratings?
damn. 
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6/18/2008, 11:44 am
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wow...you really think that Kerry and Gore would have performed worse than the guy who's performed the worst in the 70 year history of tracking approval ratings?
damn.
Yes.
For highlights, I think Gore would have us anchored to Kyoto and Kerry would have us subservient to the decisions of other nations.
Bush's approval ratings don't really matter. Especially now.
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6/18/2008, 11:48 am
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I guarantee some partisan repub dip**** is going to bring up the low approval ratings of Congress...
Joy, funny isn't it? People still defend this guy??
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6/18/2008, 11:50 am
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Bush's approval ratings don't really matter. Especially now.
I guess it's more of a measure of the negative impact this administration's policies have had on our way of life...not the least of which being the two wars that clearly have not been funded with tax dollars...at least, not yet.
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I guess it's more of a measure of the negative impact this administration's policies have had on our way of life...not the least of which being the two wars that clearly have not been funded with tax dollars...at least, not yet.
Still doesn't matter.
He's out in January and nothing changes that.
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Kerry would have us subservient to the decisions of other nations.
Bush's approval ratings don't really matter. Especially now.
That's really ridiculous.... Kerry simply stated that prior to rushing off to war, one of the steps he would take would be to confer with our allies.... sounds pretty sensible to me.... it was the sophmoric republican spinmiesters that twisted that intelligent statment into..... "kerry said we have to ask permission to attack"....a ludicrous conclusion, but one that the right wing ate up as quickly as they ate up "gore said he invented the internet"....another sophmoric spin to an innocuous statement.
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Wrong moron...Kerry would have drafted a full fledge Surrender, and asked Osama to move into the white house.
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Innocuous statements can be the ones to lend true insight.
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