Bush Sinks to New Lows - 28% Approval

According to the new NEWSWEEK Poll, the public's approval of Bush has sunk to 28 percent, an all-time low for this president in our poll, and a point lower than Gallup recorded for his father at Bush Sr.'s nadir. The last president to be this unpopular was Jimmy Carter who also scored a 28 percent approval in 1979. This remarkably low rating seems to be casting a dark shadow over the GOP's chances for victory in '08. The NEWSWEEK Poll finds each of the leading Democratic contenders beating the Republican frontrunners in head-to-head matchups.

Just to put Bush's (un)popularity ratings into perspective, they are the lowest since Jimmy Carter bottomed out at 28 percent in early July 1979, as the economy went to hell in a handbasket.  The lowest Presidential (un)popularity ratings before that were Richard Nixon's 23 percent in January 1974, as the Watergate scandal destroyed his Presidency. 

Today, George W. Bush is sinking towards Nixonian levels, both in terms of corruption AND in terms of unpopularity, all while a terrible war is raging.  The main difference between Tricky Dicky and Dubya is that Nixon, while corrupt and power crazed, was smarter, more flexible, and more competent than Bush by a factor of about a billion.  Let's face it, when the American people re-elected Bush in 2004, they made one of the biggest mistakes in the history of our great nation.  The only question is, how long will it take us to recover from this disastrous debacle of a Presidency?  And how much MORE damage will Bush/Cheney et al. inflict upon us in their remaining 21 months?

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Conservatives in Canada in heavier seas also (PM - 5/6/2007 9:08:27 AM)

http://news.yahoo.co...

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's ruling Conservatives, in crisis over climate change and tainted by reports of torture in
Afghanistan, have slipped in support to the same level as their Liberal rivals, a poll showed Saturday.

The Ipsos-Reid poll for the Canwest media group showed 35 percent of people would vote for the Conservatives of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, against 34 percent for the main opposition Liberals.

"It's been a bad couple of weeks" for the government led by Harper's right-wing minority, said the polling institute's president Darrell Bricker.

"This was always a government with training wheels and the wheels are wobbling."

It's always been interesting to me that Canadians are so popular around the world.  Is it because they mainly stay in their own yard and don't go around killing people based on imagined menaces?