Bush Poll: Lowest Since Nixon

January 22, 2007
Bush Poll: Lowest Since Nixon

Jan. 22, 2007 — President Bush faces the nation this week more unpopular than any
president on the eve of a State of the Union address since Richard Nixon in 1974.

Nixon was beleaguered by the Watergate scandal; for Bush, three decades later, it's the war in
Iraq. With his unpopular troop surge on the table, his job rating matches the worst of his
presidency: Thirty-three percent of Americans approve of his work in office while 65 percent
disapprove, 2-1 negative, matching his career low last May.

Only three postwar presidents have gone lower — Jimmy Carter, Nixon and Harry Truman. And
only one has had a higher disapproval rating, Nixon.