Disapproval of Bush breaks record

April 12, 2008
Disapproval of Bush breaks record

WASHINGTON — President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.

Bush Approval Hits All Time Low

April 31, 2008
Bush Approval Hits All Time Low

(CNN)— With the economic outlook looking dim and the continued war in Iraq, President Bush'nidjs job approval rating hit an all time low Friday, according to a just released poll.

The latest Gallup poll shows the president's approval dropped to 28 percent, the lowest of his eight years in office.

Bush's Yearly Approval Average Fourth Worst Since 1945

January 18, 2008
Bush's Yearly Approval Average Fourth Worst Since 1945

PRINCETON,NJ -- For his seventh full year in office, beginning Jan. 20, 2007, and ending Jan.
19, 2008, George W. Bush averaged a 33.3% job approval rating. That is down from a 37.3% average for his sixth year in office, and is the lowest of his presidency. It is also one of the lowest
for a president since Gallup regularly began tracking presidential job approval in 1945.

After receiving very strong approval ratings for his first two years in office, fueled by strong public support following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bush's approval ratings have shown consistent decline. His yearly approval average has now fallen in each of the last five years of his presidency, and has dropped a total of 38 points from where it was during his second year in office.

GALLUP: Bush Tops Nixon -- In Unpopularity

November 1, 2007
GALLUP: Bush Tops Nixon -- In Unpopularity

NEW YORK For almost two years, President Bush has been threatening to unseat Richard M. Nixon as the most unpopular president in the history of the Gallup poll, and it finally happened this
week.

The latest USA TODAY/Gallup survey finds Bush with a 31% approval rating -- and for the first
time ever in the polling history, 50% say they "strongly disapprove" of a president.

The previous high (or low?) was a 48% strong disapproval rating for Nixon at the worst moments
of Watergate in 1974.

Bush, Congress at record low ratings

September 19, 2007
Bush, Congress at record low ratings

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress registered record-low approval ratings in a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday, and a new monthly index measuring the mood of Americans dipped slightly on deepening worries about the economy.

Only 29 percent of Americans gave Bush a positive grade for his job performance, below his worst Zogby poll mark of 30 percent in March. A paltry 11 percent rated Congress positively, beating the previous low of 14 percent in July.

Harris Poll: Bush Approval Drops to 26%

July 12, 2007
Harris Poll: Bush Approval Drops to 26%

President George W. Bush’s job performance continues to move downward as just one-quarter (26%) of U.S. adults currently view his job performance positively. This is the lowest since he took
office and is tied with Richard Nixon’s lowest ratings in the months before Watergate. Almost three-quarter of adults (73%) view the president’s job performance in a negative light.

Vice President Dick Cheney also continues to see record low job approval – just one in five (21%) of adults view him in a positive light while three-quarters (74%) view his job performance negatively.

One in five adults (19%) currently view the country as going in the right direction while 70 percent say it is going off on the wrong track. These are the lowest numbers for right direction since 1992, when the first President Bush was losing his re-election bid. In June of that year, 12 percent of adults thought the country was going in the right direction while 81 percent said it was going off on the wrong track.

AP Poll: Bush Approval Matches Low Point

June 7, 2007
AP Poll: Bush Approval Matches Low Point

Public approval of the job President Bush is doing now matches its all-time low, an AP-Ipsos poll says. The survey, released Thursday, reflects widespread discontent over how Bush is handling the war in Iraq, efforts against terrorism and domestic issues. It also underscores challenges Republican presidential and congressional candidates will confront next year when they face voters who seem to be clamoring for change.

Only 32 percent said they were satisfied with how Bush is handling his job overall, the same low point AP-Ipsos polling measured last January and a drop of 3 percentage points since May.