Bush Hits 28% Approval Rating

Posted on April 22, 2008

President Bush has reached a new milestone. He has just polled the lowest of any American president in the 70 year history of Gallup polling. His approval rating is now 28%. His approval rate is 69%. The 69% is the highest disapproval rate since FDR. Bush had the highest approval rate in Gallup's history (90%) following the 9/11 attacks, but it has been steadily dropping since then.

This is a milestone no president wants to reach. It is interesting that it was actually the Republican primary debates which introduced to the average voter the concept that the Iraq War (with its associated borrowing of billions from China to finance it) being a major drag on our economy. All the candidates eventually talked about the dangers of borrowing to finance a war, but really it was those Republican debates that got the concept discussed in the mainstream media.

Now unhappiness with the economy, the high gas prices and the Iraq War are all bundled together in consumers' minds, leading Bush to the worst approval ratings of his career.