Bush popularity rating is lowest in history

[Poiuyt]

WASHINGTON DC (CNN) -- 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.

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/10/bush.transition.poll/index.html

[mtnsnake]

1. Sure it is. Even the repukes are pissed as hell at him because they're blaming him

for Obama's victory.

[uponit7771]

2. The contrast between Bush and Obama is stark, Bush isn't helped by the standing next to the better

...person

[xxqqqzme]

9. as stark as it was in 2000 w/ * standing next to Clinton....

now the current contrast - staggering! From intelligence to ignorance back to intelligence.

[Tripper11]

3. The staggering genius it took to be that fucking bad.....

is unprecendented...bravo * bravo!!!!! :applause:

[CrispyQ]

4. WORST PRESIDENT EVER.

And yes, Puppet, history will bear this out.

Miserable failure.

[H2O Man]

5. He has earned it.

And so, for that matter, has VP Cheney.

Around 2003-2004, George W. Bush took satisfaction in the fact that many people disliked him. Still, any human being who is as vain and arrogant as he is, requires a sense of approval. Many have noted, for example, that he has used the presidency as a stage to act out his conflicts with his father. There is a lot of truth to that.

It has to sting .... the fact that even the congressional candidates from his own party rejected him in 2008. And not simply as a campaign tactic.

History will record him as a vicious brute and a failed human being.

[Poiuyt]

10. I've always said the real reason that Bush wanted to invade Iraq so badly was to show up his father

I think Cheney wanted to invade for the oil and conquest of the world, but Bush wanted to because he was always in the shadow of Bush 41. A quick easy victory in Iraq (or so he thought) would give him bragging rights at those twisted family get-togethers

[Blackhatjack]

6. You know what that means? There are still 24% APPROVING of Bush!

[WI_DEM]

7. and there always will be a core number of moran supporters.

[Tatiana]

8. This is the Republican base and nothing more. These people believe the world is 6,000 years old.

At least it's better than 28%. 4% more have become enlightened.