President Bush's Poll Numbers Are Going From Bad to Worse
President Bush is spending the weekend at his Texas ranch. But there's no escape from bad news in the ratings department.
The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll finds that only 28 percent of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing, a new low. He was at 30 percent last month. The pollsters said one big reason is deepening voter dissatisfaction with the economy, which is in a serious downturn.
Even Republicans are becoming disenchanted with the president, with only 60 percent endorsing his job performance—his weakest showing yet among members of his own party. Only 17 percent of independents and 7 percent of Democrats said he was doing a good job.
That follows a survey of 109 professional historians that delivered yet another downer to the White House. History News Network found that 98 percent rated the Bush presidency a failure and only 2 percent saw it as a success.
Even more deflating, more than 61 percent of the historians said the current presidency is the worst in American history. In 2004, only 11.6 percent of the historians questioned rated Bush's presidency in last place. (A report on the 10 earlier worst presidents is here).
White House aides say Bush doesn't care about the polls. He will do what he feels is right and is confident that history will eventually vindicate him even if it takes many decades, they say.
—Kenneth T. Walsh
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Where's the accountability
Why is Congress afraid of Bush/Rove/Cheney? The American people want to see these people behind bars. I will never vote republican again! Americans are great people, but if you voted these jerks into office, shame on you. I want some accountability. Shine the light on these crooks and the people and corporations who have benefited from this horrible administration. The previous post was right on, come on America, lets get out of this mess and finally work together again. Goodbye party of hatred and misinformation.
bush/McCain
We all know what a DISASTER bush is. Now lets not repeat by electing someone who said "he was not very good at economics and is vowing to stay in Iraq for 100 years. Obama may not be the greatest but, comeon folks. Do we really want four more years of this garbage.
Vote for Obama. And hold congress accountable for helping him repair this DISASTER.
If we all pitch in and us that lost thing. What was it? Oh yeah, American pride, hard work and inginuity.
Write your congress member and tell them 1)No more pork. 2) No more gridlock. 3) start cleaning up this mess and get some real work done. 4) Get out of Iraq.
5) Take care of Americans first then help others-that is in the Bible. 6) find the new ways to solve our problems.
There are wonderful breakthroughs happening every day in energy, medicine, manufacturing, and many other areas.
We need to get out of the box and do like we did in the Manhatten and Apollo programs.
Come on America-Get that old spirit back and lets kick some butt.
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