(CNN) Poll: Bush disapproval ratings reach new record (76%)

[sabra]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) – As President-elect Obama visits the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president in the six decades since presidential approval ratings were first measured.

Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday disapprove of how George W. Bush is handling his job as President. That's an all-time high in CNN polling, or 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."

Prior to President 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.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/10/bush-disapproval-ratings-reach-new-record/

[onehandle]

1. Who? nt

[Robb]

13. Indeed. nt

[saigon68]

28. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Scaling the heights of the valley.

Blowing past the old record faster than Usain Bolt.

[sabra]

3. BushCo: We are number One!

[opihimoimoi]

4. We are in Shock and AWE of this record holding DISAPPROVAL RATING

How could it still be at this level?

From the looks of things....it should be 95 % Disapproval

[Old and In the Way]

5. Maybe SCOTUS will think twice about selecting a President who

loses the popular vote.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. ...and the electoral vote.

[SDFalconer]

7. I've been waiting for

his approval rating to get down to 13. I hope this two-term idiot sets a president that we can refer to in the future so this doesn't happen again.

[aquart]

8. The unchallenged precedents set by Bush will eventually destroy us.

Even if Obama chooses not to use the signing statements to violate the law at will, eventually someone will do it so egregiously that we either act or disappear as a nation.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Bush has given the presidency absolute power. We did not challenge that with the only method allowed us. The precedent stands.

We were fools.

[petgoat]

14. Agreed. I see two avenues for attacking the imperial-powers precedents.

1. Impeachment. Nothing in the Constitution prohibits this from being
done after Bush leaves office. It will strip him of his pension and,
IIRC, disqualify him from holding any office in the future.

2. Obama takes a pledge, the "Obama Doctrine" specifically identifying
the excesses of the Bush regime and renouncing those powers:

warrantless surveillance
lawless detention
torture
violation of Int'l treaties
the right to declare anybody he wants to as an enemy combatant,
the right to declare anything he wants a national emergency (EO 51)
signing statements...

what else?

[happygoluckytoyou]

9. sadly won't be in office long enough to hit ZERO, but it has been a fun ride down this hill.

i can only hope that OBAMA knows enough to ignore ANY advice from the most UNpopular guy in american politics.
what would bush POSSIBLY advise OBAMA on ? ?

1) don't eat salty snacks
2) try not to say heh heh heh to much
3) don't start a war you can't finish

AT LEAST WITH THE WHITE HOUSE, LET US HOPE BUSH HAS AN EXIT STRATEGY.... PACK YOUR BAGS.... CALL A TAXI.... LEAVE....
--------IF YOU ARE RUNNING LATE... CALL CRAIG, HE WILL HELP YOU GET YOUR SHIT PACKED FAST

[1monster]

11. There must be fifty ways for Bush to leave the White House...

You just slip out the back, Dubya-Jack
Make a new plan, Dubya-Stan
You don't need to be coy, Dubya-Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Dubya-Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Dubya-Lee
And set the U.S. free

(with apologies to Paul Simon)

[benld74]

10. That just means 24% responding are total WIPES!

[samsingh]

21. that's still a lot of idiots.

[Doctor Cynic]

26. Maybe 24% approve of him starting to pack.

[IntravenousDemilo]

12. Impeachment Day: January 15, 2009. Bush & Cheney both. Fingers crossed.

Removal from office on the 16th.

[eggplant]

15. The surge is working! n/t

[Historic NY]

16. Do I hear 80, come on lets shoot for it.

[LiberalFighter]

17. The Bush Legacy. Protest the building of his library!!

[grace0418]

18. When I see this, all I can think is "WTF is wrong with the other 24%?"

Seriously.

[Frank Cannon]

25. The other 24% are people who, my dad would say...

wouldn't say shit if they had a mouth full of it.

[llmart]

27. Tee hee.....

That was a favorite saying of my Dad too.

[DS1]

19. .

[tanyev]

20. Craptacular!

[struggle4progress]

22. I wonder how far this can really go. Could we break 80% disapproval before the bitter end?

[LynnTheDem]

23. GEORGE W. BUSH;

most unpopular president in six decades

And he's all yours, freepers!

[fascisthunter]

24. Most Criminally Insane American President

If it were up to me, I'd have him sent immediately to the Hague, with all his friends. They murdered about a million people do to their actions. They should be properly and justly rewarded for it.

[DeepModem Mom]

29. K&R