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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI...sition.poll/index.html
Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon
On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago.
Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday disapprove of how President Bush is handling his job.
That's an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II.
"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating."
Before Bush, the record holder for presidential disapproval was Harry Truman, with a 67 percent disapproval rating in January of 1952, his last full year in office.
% Disapprove/Date
G.W. Bush - 76%/ Nov. 2008
Clinton - 54%/ Sept. 1994
G.H.W. Bush - 60%/ July 1992
Reagan - 56%/ Jan. 1983
Carter - 59%/ June 1979
Ford - 46%/ April, Nov., Dec. 1975
Nixon - 66%/ Aug. 1974
Johnson - 52% March, Aug. 1968
Kennedy - 30%/ Nov. 1963
Eisenhower - 36%/ March 1958
Truman - 67%/ Jan. 1952
My first impression is that now that the election is over, some people who felt loyalty to the Republican party may no longer be hiding their true feelings.
My second impression is how startling that a disgraced President like Nixon, who resigned rather than be removed. should have had a higher approval rating than Bush.
My third impression is that the 24 percent who still approve of Bush are desperately in need of a brain transplant.
Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon
On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago.
Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday disapprove of how President Bush is handling his job.
That's an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II.
"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating."
Before Bush, the record holder for presidential disapproval was Harry Truman, with a 67 percent disapproval rating in January of 1952, his last full year in office.
% Disapprove/Date
G.W. Bush - 76%/ Nov. 2008
Clinton - 54%/ Sept. 1994
G.H.W. Bush - 60%/ July 1992
Reagan - 56%/ Jan. 1983
Carter - 59%/ June 1979
Ford - 46%/ April, Nov., Dec. 1975
Nixon - 66%/ Aug. 1974
Johnson - 52% March, Aug. 1968
Kennedy - 30%/ Nov. 1963
Eisenhower - 36%/ March 1958
Truman - 67%/ Jan. 1952
My first impression is that now that the election is over, some people who felt loyalty to the Republican party may no longer be hiding their true feelings.
My second impression is how startling that a disgraced President like Nixon, who resigned rather than be removed. should have had a higher approval rating than Bush.
My third impression is that the 24 percent who still approve of Bush are desperately in need of a brain transplant.
