President Bush's job-approval ratings continue to slip, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll, while job-approval ratings for most of his key cabinet members also remain low.
Mr. Bush's current job-approval ratings stand at 36% in March, down from 40% in February and 43% in January, but still slightly above the low point of 34% registered in November 2005.
The telephone poll of 1,001 U.S. adults also shows Vice President Dick Cheney's job-approval rating unchanged at the record low 30% approval rating that he received in November 2005. About 67% of those polled say Mr. Cheney is doing an "only fair" or "poor" job, compared with 64% who gave Mr. Bush negative ratings.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has the highest approval ratings of the major cabinet members, at 51%, while about 61% of those polled give Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld a negative rating.
The poll indicates widespread disatisfaction with Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Only 24% of those surveyed gave Democrats a positive job-approval rating, down from 25% in November 2005, while Republicans remained at 27%.
Fewer than one-third of Americans say the U.S. is headed in the right direction, compared with 60% who say it is on the wrong track, according to the poll.
And when considering the most important issues that the U.S. government needs to address, 21% of those polled say the war is most important, 16% said the health care and 15% said the economy.
See the full results of the Harris poll:
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